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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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