El chaleco blanco (Chueca)

Ana Maria Iriarte, Gerardo Monreal, Joaquin Portillo. Coro Cantores de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica, c. Ataulfo Argenta
BMG Alhambra WD 74389

Chueca's sparkling music for Carrión's little farce is freshly performed under Argenta's lively direction. Iriarte sounds on the matronly side for the young heroine, but Monreal sings musically as David - even managing a decent top B-flat in the quotation from Verdi's "di quella pira." The chorus is forthright, the recording upfront and reasonably clear. The coupling, rather curiously, is Serrano's exotic tragedy Moros y Cristianos, atmospherically done.

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