The Pavarotti Edition (includes bonus disc with previously unreleased 1964 debut Decca recording session) [Box set] Review

This Pavarotti set; The Pavarotti Edition; is a wonderful collection of Arias and songs that cover Luciano's great career. Pavarotti is THE Voice of the 20th Century and this set does him justice. It includes 10 CDs with over 750 minutes of music; Includes Music from All of His roles; has a beautiful 76 page full color booklet; Has a wonderful write up; and includes a bonus CD of Pavarotti's fist album, a 45, from 1964, which has never been released on CD before this set. Every Song is hear, This SET is a must have for every Pavarotti Fan.

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Product Description:
Disc 1: Donizetti Arias from L'elisir d'amore, Maria Stuarda, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du Regiment, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita, and Don Paquale
Disc 2: Bellini/Donizetti/Verdi Includes arias from I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, La Sonnambula (1976 Duet Recording), I Beatrice di Tenda, I Puritani, Don Sebastien, Il Duca d'Alba, I Lombardi, I due Foscari, Ernani, and Attila
Disc 3: Verdi 1 Includes arias from Macbeth, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Les Vepres Siciliennes
Disc 4: Verdi 2 Includes arias from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Requiem
Disc 5: Puccini Includes arias from La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot
Disc 6: Puccini and Verismo Includes arias from Cavalleria Rusticana, Manon Lescaut, Pagliacci, Andrea Chenier, and Tosca
Disc 7: Arias 1 Includes arias from La Griselda, Atalanta, Orfeo ed Euridice, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Guillaume Tell, and more.Includes Unreleased Material.
Disc 8: Arias 2 Includes arias from Martha, Mefistofele, La Giocanda, Adriana Lecouvreur, Rosenkavalier, Fedora, Werther, Faust, Carmen, and more
Disc 9: Italian Songs Includes: In questa tomba oscura, Me voglio fa'na casa, Non t'amo piu, Pace non trovo, and more
Disc 10: Neapolitan and Italian Popular Songs Includes: O sloe mio, Torna a Surriento, Core 'ngrato, Funiculi Funicula, Non ti scordar di me, Mamma and more
Bonus CD: The 1964 EP (previously unreleased) "Che Gelida Manina," "E lucevan le stelle," "Questo o quella," "La Donna e mobile," and "Parmi veder" with Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Edward Downes conducting

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Panorama: Colours of the Orchestra Review

The long-sheet insert that accompanies DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON's COLOURS OF THE ORCHESTRA contains an essay in German, French and English, plus a timeline beginning with "Dresden Court Orchestra-1548" and ending at "American seating plan becomes standard-after 1945."

Archival recordings span the years 1959-1997. Good headphones reveal the difference between analog tracks and digital. Besides a quiet background hiss there's less vibrance and transparency with the older selections. To be fair, those listening in the car or on a less-than high end stereo may not notice all that much.

This album favors Gallic composers: Delibes, Chabrier, Fauré, Enesco and especially Berlioz. (Berlin Radio Symphony's "Rákóczy March" is marvelous, BTW.) Even Bavarian-born Charles Gluck was influenced by French opera and lived in Paris.

RANDOM NOTES--
Arthur Fiedler/Boston Pops "Toccata & Fugue" is typically overdone.

After all that orchestral bombast, Bernstein's Adagio For Strings (Barber) is welcome aural relief.

Opening melody and coda of Boccherini's String Quintet should be familiar to all.

Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic fans will love his Hungarian Dance #1.

DISC TWO opens with a wonderfully-recorded Chabrier march. Kudos to Detroit Symphony.

Delibes' ballet Gavotte is one most of us first heard in cartoons. Gothenburg Symphony handles it well.

Elgar's String Serenade is presented in full (tracks #7-9).

At times, Enescu's Roumanian Rhapsody whirls like a top. London Symphony delivers one of this CD's highlights.

Gounod's Faust waltz is the other, thanks to von Karajan and the Berlin Phil.

Funeral March of a Marionette also opened and closed the 1950s TV series, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.

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