Conductor is José Collado, - Sofia Philharmonic. September of 2000 - - This part contains Caballé's second aria, a sublime scene from Massenet's oratorio La Vierge, the Extasy of The Virgin (L'Extase de la Vierge). Caballé transposes down the two climactic notes so they are fourths and not fifths from the tonic (the original notes would be high B-flats... but beware, a huge B-flat will come in the next part), but hey, it sounds fine enough to ...
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