![Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale Of Tsar Saltan [I.Petrov, E. Smolenskaya, L. Nikitina, E. Shumilova] [Melodia: MEL 1002199]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91og173+nsL.jpg)
Product description MELOD 1002199; MELODIA - Russia; Classica Lirica Review Rimsky's purest fairy=tale opera. Featuring Flight of the bumblebee is brilliantly sung by a stellar Bolshoi performers in vividly remastered sound. Only version available, and a treasure. Performance ***** Recording **** --BBC Music Magazine, Mar'15
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get the Aquarius-Classic release instead
I just finished comparing this new Melodiya to the Aquarius-Classic release (Aquarius-Classic is a tiny Russian label). I have this recording on Monopole, Le Chant du Monde, this Melodiya and Aquarius-Classic. The Monopole is terrible - shrill, metallic. The Chant du Monde is bad - it is transferred too loud and has clipping in climaxes. The Melodiya is OK but the Aquarius-Classic is far superior to the Melodiya: it has a more pleasant, warmer timbre; it has far more depth and perspective, a stronger bass response and a far smoother treble; the voices have far more presence and impact - they leap at you and they just sound better; the chorus has more impact and the male chorus sounds more virile in a very Russian way: night and day.
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