The passion of... Jose Carreras... performance, and in the final scene its pathos, fulfill every facet of Riccardo s complex personality. Caballe seems inspired by Carreras to give of her best. She fills her Gallows aria with the right sense of fear and foreboding and the ensuing duet with eloquence, while the Prayer has all the appealing fervour of a mother s plea for her life. - Gramophone