Elina Garanca: Habanera | CD review

Garanca/Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI/Chichon (DG)Elina Garanca's new album is essentially an anthology of songs and arias about Spain, to which a few numbers about Gypsies have been added. The Latvian mezzo casts her stylistic net quite wide, since her programme includes an extract from Lehár's Zigeunerliebe, I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls from Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, and I Am So Easily Assimilated from Bernstein's Candide, the last of which is pushing her definitions of Spanish...

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