Excerpt from the Finale
(in .rm format - you can obtain a free player here)

"Con lirica estasi Edita Gruberova ha trasfigurato l'eroismo e la grandezza di Beatrice nella vertiginosa altezza del suo canto. Nobile ed estatica nel fraseggio, la Gruberova ha dipinto l'ideale dell'innocenza "calpestata e afflitta", della virtù di "sovrumana forza" interiore con ricchezza di sfumature timbriche nei legati, omogeneità d'emissione, fluidità d'accenti.
(With lyric rapture Edita Gruberova transfigured Beatrice's heroism and greatness in the dizzying heights of her singing. Noble and profound in her phrasing, Gruberova portrayed the ideal of "oppressed and afflicted" innocence and the virtue of inner "superhuman force" with a richness of timbre in the legato passages, evenness of tone and fluidity of accent.)"
(Grazia Pulvirenti in L'Opera)

"Edita Gruberova demonstriert in Beatrice Virtusität und raffiniertes Farbenspektrum am Besten von allen Bellini-Partien:Die Rolle des noblen und extatischen Opfers, die sublime Qualität der Linie, das "Handgenähte", das Licht inder Stimme, die Haltung, die aristokratische Sanftheit, die verblüffende Vollkommenheit jedes einzelnen Tons - das alles zusammen gibt etwas so Erfülltes und Begeisterndes, was uns die Schallplatte seit ihrer Existenz noch nicht gegeben hat..."
(André Tubeuf in Diapason)

"Beatrice's final number, "Ah, se un urna" is the music Chopin wished to hear on his deathbed, and Gruberova's performance of this typically Bellinian aria is one of the many highlights of this set, illuminated by her mastery and understanding of the bel canto idiom."
(Niel Rishoi)