From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
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I am not sure if the title of this album is even legal in Britain and the US. These days we refer to a particular ethnicity as ‘Roma’ or ‘travelling people’. But this recording was made in the Czech Republic, where social tensions run high and the terminology can be a bit behind the times….
Read on here.
And in The Critic.
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