A Jussi Bjorling Phonography (Musik I Sverige, 6.)

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Summary: Essential reference
Review: This is the one basic and essential reference on the studio andperformances recordings of Jussi Bjorling. Henrysson documents all thestudio sessions and live performances and X-references each selection to the vinyl, tape or CD on which it appears.

Despite the enormous number of CD's currently available ( Amazon has about 150 items, for example) the number of things recorded is relatively small, so this book is really the only way to keep from being covered up with duplicates.

It is possible to locate a particular session or go the other way, and find out what's on a record. Items recorded in the studio are numbered in sequence; live recordings have a year prefix, followed by numbers in sequence for that year.

This is as close as it gets to a critical biography of Bjorling and certainly makes listening to all the wonderful things currently available much more fun.