I I was the world's worst actor.' A comment of much candour and little hyperbole by McCormack himself. Despite this awkwardness on stage, McCormack was not so inhibited in the field of recording and he has left many very fine opera records.
In this programme Gordon Ledbetter considers McCormack's opera career and introduces some of these records - among them ' II mio tesoro ' from Don Giovanni and ' Come my beloved ' from Atalanta: records