4143-2 MIGNON

Chabrier said: Music? There's the good and the bad and then, that of Ambroise Thomas... Everybody does his best with this old success. Helen Vanni begins a little retiring and improves till the end, with no problem at all with the soprano version of her part. Porretta is skillful and sings very correctly French, looking well after his line. Nixon, vocally as small mouse, not really comfortable beyond high B. Noble and sonorous Boatwright. Excellent conductor, who knows well his affair. Very correct sound for 1966.