Home Sweet Home [Import]

Joan Sutherland (Artist), Bonynge (Artist), Lso (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Decca Import
• ASIN: B00000E425
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > Imports > Opera & Vocal

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glorious Sutherland singing more popular tunes, February 15, 2003

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Larry D. Rodriguez (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Sweet Home (Audio CD)

Why hasn't anyone reviewed this wonderful recital by the great Joan Sutherland? For those more familiar with her operatic reperetoire, you will be equally amazed by her technique in this series of waltzes and popular songs. This CD gathers up recordings made at different times during her career;thus, the vocal quality isn't always the same (yes, there are instances of mushy, garbled diction). If you have the recently released La Stupenda compilation, you will recognize some of the material here. However, you haven't heard the very best. Why they left out the Gipsy and the Bird and Mattinata is beyond me. They are true Sutherland treasures.

This recital is likely to go out of the catalog before too long; I suggest you buy it to round out your Sutherland collection

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LP 2 of Command Performance on CD, September 22, 2010

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Aronne (MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Sweet Home (Audio CD)

This set gathers the music from the second LP of Sutherland's 1962 recital Command Performance (LP 1 is available too) with four tracks from her 1966 operetta recital Love Live Forever (available in part, minus these tracks, or in whole).

As light as the music is, it is a pleasure to hear Sutherland singing it. Unlike many divas, Joan Sutherland was a cheerful and sweet-tempered person at heart. That quality of La Stupenda shines through on this disc, making it a must have for any of her fans.

Her diction is never outstanding here, but it is still good enough, particularly when the disc includes complete texts and translations, even though Decca dispensed with program notes. On the whole, an excellent bargain.