Tosti - A vucchella

Camarena undoubtedly feels an affinity with this repertoire. In the story of Nina in ‘L’ultima canzone’, who is marrying someone else, he artfully blends nonchalance with hints of a broken heart.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

After a period of neglect, Tosti's superior salon pieces are back… Ben Heppner certainly brings most of them off, even if his Italian is not entirely idiomatic… — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…it's the Verdi group that is the heart of the first half. "In solitaria stanza", with its main theme closely resembling "Tacea la notte" from Il trovatore, must rank as one of the loveliest... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2007 More…

Calleja is not a Mario Lanza: he's a gifted lyric tenor with a voice that is most comfortable in the head...there's a nice throb in the voice in Lara's Granada...and Tosti's 'A vucchella' would... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Nimbus has done [Ponselle] a signal honor by devoting a third disc to her recordings, but this is no collection of near-misses and also-rans: the seventeen items on this disc come from the same... — Fanfare More…