Posted by unews on 07/23/07 00:41

http://www.mvdaily.com/

'Antoni Ros-Marba and the Liceu orchestra hurl themselves at the
shores of Cyprus with an elemental ferocity that should send Othello
straight to the bottom of the sea and thus spare us the protracted
horrors of this murderous tale. Desdemona and the chorus are naturally
frantic, as also is the wind machine that shrieks through the score,
even if the absent-minded Verdi omitted to write for it. This most
exacting of all composers also demanded on occasion a dynamic as
precise as pppppp. He would not have approved the cavalier attitude of
the Barcelona team to such instructions. I have every sympathy for
their being carried away by so compelling a drama, none for any wilful
disdain of Verdi's markings.'

- Robert Anderson, writing in today's Music & Vision about the recent
Opus Arte set of Verdi's 'Otello'.

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