This CD is a compilation of (mainly) devotional music sung by Pavarotti when he was in or near his prime, most going back, gloriously, to 1976. Precisely what Orfeo s lament (from the Gluck opera) is doing in a recital called O Holy Night is beyond me, but the rest of the selections are well chosen. The title song is gorgeously enough performed to be worth the album s asking price, the tenor s voice ringing out with great clarity and beauty, and the selection from Rossini s Stabat Mater is even more thrilling, with its ascent to high D flat near its close. Verdi s Ingemisco, from his Requiem, is handsomely and sensitively delivered, and the others elections, with or without choir, are simply stunning. A CD for Christmas and the rest of the year as well. --Robert Levine
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