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When the recording was reviewed in The Gramophone in November 1955 it was commented: “Gobbi goes from strength to strength … Rodrigo’s noble death scene elicits from this artist some of the loveliest baritone singing I have ever heard on record. With the cardinal rôles of the King and Posa finely done, with beautifully moulded tone-colour and phrasing …, for the contributions of Gobbi and Christoff, the bloom of Stella’s voice and for the sublime ultra-Verdian splendours of this score, lovingly handled by Santini, the set will repay attention”.
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo
Act I Scene 1: Prelude
Act I Scene 1: Carlo, il sommo imperatore (Chorus, Monk)
Act I Scene 1: Io l'ho perduta! (Carlo, Monk)
Act I Scene 1: E lui! Desso … l'Infante! (Rodrigo, Carlo)
Act I Scene 1: Dio, che nell'alma infondere (Carlo, Rodrigo)
Act I Scene 2: Sotto ai folti, immensi abeti (Chorus, Tebaldo, Eboli)
Act I Scene 2: Nei giardin del bello (Eboli, Tebaldo, Chorus)
Act I Scene 2: La Regina! … Un'arcana mestizia (Chorus, Eboli, Elizabeth, Tebaldo, Rodrigo)
Act I Scene 2: Carlo, ch'e solo il nostro amore (Rodrigo, Eboli, Elizabeth)
Act I Scene 2: Io vengo a domandar (Carlo, Elizabeth)
Act I Scene 2: Il Re! … Perche sola e la Regina? (Tebaldo, Philip, Chorus)
Act I Scene 2: Non pianger, mia compagna (Elizabeth, Chorus, Rodrigo, Philip)
Act I Scene 2: Restate! Presso al mia persona (Philip, Rodrigo)
Act I Scene 2: O signor, di Fiandra arrivo (Rodrigo, Philip)
Act I Scene 2: Questa e la pace che voi date al mondo? (Rodrigo, Philip)
Act I Scene 2: Oso lo sguardo tuo penetrar il mio soglio? (Philip, Rodrigo)
Act II Scene 1: Prelude
Act II Scene 1: A mezzanotte ai giardin della Regina … (Carlo, Eboli, Rodrigo)
Act II Scene 1: Al mio furor sfuggite invano (Eboli, Rodrigo, Carlo)
Act II Scene 1: Ed io, che tremava al suo aspetto! (Eboli, Rodrigo, Carlo)
Act II Scene 1: Trema per te, falso figliuolo (Eboli, Carlo, Rodrigo)
Act II Scene 1: Carlo, se mai su te fogli importanti serbi (Rodrigo, Carlo)
Act II Scene 2: Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (Chorus of People, Chorus of Monks)
Act II Scene 2: Schiusa or sia la porta del tempio! (Royal Herald, All)
Act II Scene 2: Nel posar sul mio capo la corona (Philip, All, Elizabeth, Rodrigo, Carlo, Deputies)
Act II Scene 2: A Dio voi foste infidi (Philip, Elizabeth, Carlo, Rodrigo, Tebaldo, Deputies, Chorus of People, Chorus of Monks)
Act II Scene 2: Sire! Egli e tempo ch'io viva (Carlo, Philip, Elizabeth, Rodrigo, All)
Act II Scene 2: O ciel! Tu, Rodrigo! (Carlo, All, Philip, Chorus of People, Chorus of Monks, A Voice from Heaven, Deputies)
Act III Scene 1: Prelude
Act III Scene 1: Ella giammai m'amo! (Philip)
Act III Scene 1: Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal (Philip)
Act III Scene 1: Il Grand' Inquisitor! (Count of Lerma, Inquisitor, Philip)
Act III Scene 1: Nell'ispano suol mai l'eresia domino (Inquisitor, Philip)
Act III Scene 1: Giustizia, giustizia, Sire! (Elizabeth, Philip, Eboli, Rodrigo)
Act III Scene 1: Ah, sii maledetto, sospetto fatale (Philip, Rodrigo, Eboli, Elizabeth)
Act III Scene 1: Pieta, pieta, perdon (Eboli, Elizabeth)
Act III Scene 1: O don fatale (Eboli)
Act III Scene 2: Son io, mio Carlo (Rodrigo, Carlo)
Act III Scene 2: Per me giunto e il di supremo (Rodrigo)
Act III Scene 2: Che parli tu di morte? (Carlo, Rodrigo)
Act III Scene 2: O Carlo, ascolta (Rodrigo)
Act III Scene 2: Mio Carlo, a te la spada io rendo (Philip, Carlo, Grandees, Chorus of People, Count of Lerma, Eboli, Inquisitor)
Act IV: Introduction
Act IV: Tu che la vanita (Elizabeth)
Act IV: E dessa! … Un detto, un sol (Carlo, Elizabeth)
Don Carlo, Act I Scene 1: Io l'ho perduta! … Dio, che nell'alma infondere
Don Carlo, Act I Scene 2: Nei giardin del bello
Don Carlo, Act III Scene 1: Ella giammai m'amo! … Dormiro sol nel manto mio regal
Don Carlo, Act III Scene 1: O don fatale
Felice ancor io son … Per me giunto e il di supremo
O Carlo, ascolta
Don Carlo, Act IV: Tu che la vanita
2010 edition
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“chiefly memorable for the incomparable contributions of Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff...which have never been matched since...Gobbi's singing in the Death Scene is arguably the finest recorded performance that even this glorious artist ever made...The bitingly dark tone of Christoff as the King also goes with intense feeling for the dramatic situation.”
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