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Some studio recordings have finer polish than this, but few match its impetuous drama.

Glyndebourne’s Rusalka made headlines last year when soprano Ana María Martínez took a tumble into the orchestra pit.

This highlights disc focuses as determinedly on Bocelli as possible, skewing the dramatic arc.

It’s good to hear the tenor cast his net so wide; and yet, it has to be said, it’s still on home territory that he sounds his best.

There are better and more beautiful sacred albums about, but Santo is still a worthy addition to Flórez’s solo discography.

Eminently listenable, and with moments of loveliness, but also a certain superficiality.

Byrbe's approach seems to focus more on dazzling climaxes than characterisation.