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Complete Mozart Edition 15 - Late Italian Operas
Release Date: 03/14/2000
Label: Philips Catalog #: 464 920 Spars Code: ADD
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria Casula, David Lennox, Christina Clarke, Paul Hudson, ...
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, ...
Number of Discs: 11
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 10 Hours 48 Mins.
Works on This Recording
1. Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria Casula (Soprano), David Lennox (Tenor), Christina Clarke (Soprano),
Paul Hudson (Bass), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Bass), Yvonne Minton (Mezzo Soprano),
Clifford Grant (Bass), Felicity Palmer (Soprano), Ingvar Wixell (Baritone),
Lillian Watson (Soprano), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Robert Tear (Tenor),
Jessye Norman (Soprano)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
2. Don Giovanni, K 527 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Luigi Roni (Bass), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Bass), Mirella Freni (Soprano),
Stuart Burrows (Tenor), Ingvar Wixell (Baritone), Martina Arroyo (Soprano),
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Richard Van Allan (Bass)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Prague
3. Così fan tutte, K 588 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Richard Van Allan (Bass), Montserrat Caballé (Soprano), Nicolai Gedda (Tenor),
Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Bass), John Constable (Harpsichord), Ileana Cotrubas (Soprano),
Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1790; Vienna, Austria
4. La clemenza di Tito, K 621 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Robert Lloyd (Bass), Stuart Burrows (Tenor), Lucia Popp (Soprano),
Yvonne Minton (Soprano), Frederica Von Stade (Soprano), Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1791; Prague
Notes and Editorial Reviews
Review of COSÌ FAN TUTTE:
Over the last couple of years there have been two new recordings of Così fan tutte, both in many ways distinguished, but neither of them quite challenging the famous Böhm recording on HMV Angel, which for its combination of wisdom and humour, theatrical sense and fine singing, has widely been acknowledged a gramophone classic. Colin Davis's recording does embody such a challenge, because it has what matters the most: a very strong and very lively feeling for the interplay of music and drama, and for the way in which music can enrich and illuminate the opera's simple story. It also clearly bears, I think, the imprint of a firm and truthful view of the shape and the nature of the work....
The women compare well with any others on record, perhaps above all Ileana Cotrubas, whose alive and intensely musical singing of Despina's role is an uncommon treat.... Janet Baker also contributes a most distinguished performance of a role she has taken on the stage and which she particularly relishes.... Montserrat Caballé [offers] a superlative performance ....
-- Stanley Sadie, Gramophone [2/1975, reviewing the LP release]
