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Nov 28, 2021Liked by Opera Daily

While listening I couldnโ€™t help but notice how handsome Placido is here!

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Nov 28, 2021Liked by Opera Daily

They all were so young!!!!

Especially enjoyed the choral works. Gets one up and running for the day!

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Nov 29, 2021Liked by Opera Daily

Wow Franco Corelli - fantastic

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There is a common misunderstanding about this question, please donโ€™t fall on it too! I often red that steel strings were invented and adopted following the demand of a louder orchestra. I am a strings specialist. Steel strings were adopted because gut strings suffered from quality problems due to wars and high demand of surgical and tennis strings which required a quite opposite characteristic compared to musical strings. As a consequence in 20th century gut strings broke too often, even every day, and musicians were exasperated. But steel strings cannot give the same sweet pianissimo and not even the same roaring fortissimo than gut strings. That baroque music was all about flebile sound was a misconception of the 20th century revival. Up to today the challenge of musical strings company is still to make a modern string that can compete with a gut one for dynamic range.

Thanks for reading and for the great examples. I love Franco Corelli! Let me add here another classic to lift up spirits: Agitata dai due venti by Cecilia Bartoli

https://youtu.be/6czLBVqo_zw

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