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...His adversary is the seven-sided Dionysiac nemesis played here with impressive versatility by Gerald Finley....
...During his Indian summer as president of the London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis performed and recorded many of the standard choral works....
...Earlier this year the death of Colin Davis robbed the world of its long-standing champion of Berlioz’s music....
...A useful halfway house between traditional and modern styles is the young Colin Davis’s 1966 studio version on Philips, which has excellent soloists and a professional chorus....
...Like Colin Davis, whose very spacious performance at last year’s BBC Proms tried to defy time, Harnoncourt refused to be rushed, but his view of the music is still fundamentally affirmative and strong in...
...Verdi Otello Colin Davis (LSO Live, 2 CDs) Age has not dimmed Davis’s musical vitality, any more than it did Verdi’s when he wrote Otello in his mid-70s....
...The most Italianate singing – and by far the best diction – came from Gerald Finley, not a singer hitherto known as a Verdi baritone....
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