In the Bel Canto Society DVD Mad About Opera Bechi appears with Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Tito Gobbi, Maria Caniglia--and Gina Lollobrigida. Gobbi was the most artistic Italian baritone of the post-war period. But Bechi was the most exciting one--and the favorite baritone of Franco Corelli.--Stefan Zucker
"The film Carnegie Hall contains indelible scenes of some of music's top personalities of the 1940s at work performing."--John Ardoin, The Dallas Morning News
Other performers include Jascha Heifetz, Harry James, Vaughn Monroe, Jan Peerce, Gregor Piatigorsky, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, Risë Stevens, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic.
"This is the best Chénier on video, and the sound track is thrilling to hear."--Albert Innaurato, The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video
"I have never enjoyed Chénier as much as on this video."--Alan Blyth, Gramophone
"In Ridi Pagliaccio, to express the drama, Gigli colors his voice far more than any other Canio on film or record. His voice is more mature--and more appropriate for the part--than in his 1934 recording, on EMI."--Stefan Zucker
From the DVD Corelli in Concert. Listen to Franco play with the tempo, to his ritards and accelerations. At the end of the song he sings with scatto (punch), which is a reason he is so exciting.--Stefan Zucker
"Gigli is curiously moving and ingenuous as the chubby, sentimental tenor he was--and he sings all sorts of material in that unrivalled voice of his, mezza voce alternating with impassioned forte."--Alan Blyth, reviewing this film in Gramophone
![Gino Bechi in the \"Toreador Song\" from Carmen](http://img.youtube.com/vi/BsNkVduTKO8/2.jpg "Gino Bechi in the \\"Toreador Song\\" from Carmen")
![Franco Corelli in \"Tu ca nun chiagne\" by Ernesto De Curtis](http://img.youtube.com/vi/5dFcXsIY3BE/2.jpg "Franco Corelli in \\"Tu ca nun chiagne\\" by Ernesto De Curtis")
