 The album's recording quality was good, with the balance of the voices and the orchestra well judged and skillful management of sound effects and off-stage voices.All in all, the set was a welcome one, and had obviously profited from the artists' experience of performing the opera together on stage.Whether readers would prefer it to Plasson's would depend on their opinions of Carreras "vis à vis" Kraus and von Stade "vis à vis" Troyanos.