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The Three Tenors
The Three Tenors Christmas
Sony Classical
You've heard them skin "Memory," now get ready for the six-lunged assault on John Lennon's "Happy Christmas/War Is Over"! Seemingly orchestrated by a treacle manufacturer and replete with the obligatory Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, this album takes classical music to a kitschy zenith that hasn't been seen since Tchaikovsky last used a nutcracker. The vocal firm of Domingo, Pavarotti & Carreras has been quite the cash cow for Sony Classical in the past, but the trio's sense of harmony on this 1999 Christmas concert is right down there with an inebriated crowd at midnight mass. Of the three, Domingo is still a model singer, belting out his son's "Un Nuevo Siglo" like it was Tannhauser. Pavarotti, sounding like he's ingested all 12 days of Christmas, gets by more on character than what scraps of vocal prowess are leftover. And Carreras is Carreras, meaning less charismatic than the other two, although his take on Fermin Maria Alvarez's "Pregaria" is the best thing here. Stick to the Sugar Plum Fairy.
C. Bottomley
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