Best music recordings of 2011
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Puccini: "La Boheme." Soloists Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers, conductor (Sony Classical).
Sony's series of archival broadcast recordings from the Met has given us no more treasurable a set than this 1958 performance featuring two incomparable Puccini protagonists, Licia Albanese and Carlo Bergonzi.
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