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Mozart : Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Live)

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Opera - Released February 16, 2018 | Orfeo

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René Jacobs

Classical - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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Mozart: En harmonie

Zefiro

Classical - Released March 11, 2014 | Arcana

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Mozart: Cosi fan tutte

Sir Colin Davis

Classical - Released October 26, 2010 | Opus Arte

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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Highlights)

Charles Mackerras

Classical - Released January 24, 1995 | Telarc

This disc of highlights from Così fan tutte comes from a recording that was made when the cast was preparing for performances at the 1993 Edinburgh Festival, so the cast had the advantage of enough rehearsal time together to relax into the opera's humor. Their easy rapport is most evident in the spirited recitatives, which sparkle with spontaneity and wit. The fact that the principals are talented comedians makes their unforced interactions genuinely fun, and they sound like they are thoroughly enjoying themselves. Although they are not all international superstars, the performances are stellar. The soloists bring out the humanity and complexity of the opera, and artfully convey their characters' emotional development. It's hard to single out individuals for special praise, since each function so integrally as part of the whole ensemble, and each is vocally and dramatically and so effective. Felicity Lott and Marie McLaughlin are delightfully delineated as the sisters and they sing angelically; their " Ah, che tutta in un momento" is gorgeous. Nuccia Focile's Despina is lyrically playful. As the lovers, Jerry Hadley (in one of his finest recorded performances) and Alessandro Corbelli, and Gilles Cachemaille as Don Alfonso are equally fine, and their ensembles crackle with testosterone-driven bravado. Charles Mackerras leads the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in a light-footed and nimble reading. Although the instruments are modern (except for the fortepiano that accompanies the recitatives, and the timpani), Mackerras keeps the sound transparent and the tempos brisk. Teldec's sound is clean with a nice sense of intimacy.© TiVo
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Mozart: Così fan tutte

René Jacobs

Classical - Released February 26, 1999 | harmonia mundi

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Mozart: Così fan tutte (Highlights)

Teodor Currentzis

Classical - Released October 9, 2015 | Sony Classical

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You may have heard about the radical Mozart performances coming out of the provincial city of Perm, Russia, led by conductor Teodor Currentzis. He's in the middle of a cycle of Mozart's operas with libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte, with a sure-to-be-explosive Don Giovanni yet to come as of late 2015. This single-album set of excerpts from Currentzis' reading of Così fan tutte has sold well out of the blocks, perhaps to listeners curious to hear what the fuss is about, but unwilling to invest in an entire box set. With only snatches of recitative and transition, you miss the outrageous continuo group of fortepiano, lute, cello/gamba, and, yes, hurdy-gurdy. That's a major omission, but all the other aspects of the full opera, and of Currentzis' gleeful disregard for convention, are amply represented. Consider the garish tempo contrasts, with the blistering overture pushed right up to the boundary of playability, while soon after that in Act One the trio "Soave sia il vento" is glacial. That number is one of the many places where it's apparent that soprano Simone Kermes, as Fiordiligi, is perhaps Currentzis' ideal collaborator, able to cope with extravagant musical demands, to deliver fresh characterizations, and generally to enter into the spirit of the thing and make you believe that maybe, just maybe, everybody will be performing Mozart this way in 30 years. In general the characterizations are strong and appealing; Currentzis may be a wild man, but he does not unduly draw attention to himself. And the work of his hand-built Musicaeterna, his historical-instruments group in Perm, is sharp as a tack here: it's an ensemble that can react to all of this conductor's demands. You may get a shock from this, but it's a good kind of shock, and the excerpt album can be generally recommended.© TiVo
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Mozart Concertante

Aleksandra Kurzak

Opera - Released October 22, 2021 | Aparté

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The Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak needs no introduction. After having dazzled the opera stage and the discographic world both in duets and solo, she has devoted the whole of her new recording to Mozart. From The Magic Flute to Zaide, Mitridate and La Clemenza di Tito, the soprano embraces with equal talent the most famous arias of the master of Salzburg… and the verve of her concert presence. Far from limiting herself to just the lyrical attractiveness, she reveals its depth and brilliance by exploring the richness of the dialogue between voice and instruments: the brilliant musicians of the Morphing Chamber Orchestra of Vienna and Aleksandra Kurzak answer to each other, imitate and seek out each other. With them the arias of Mozart become the setting for a theatrical performance that is intimate, droll, and incredibly lively, in which the instruments have their own role to play in the unfolding drama. As an echo to this is added the Sinfonia concertante, for violin, viola and orchestra, one of the composer’s masterpieces in the genre, featuring the international soloists Yuuki Wong and Tomasz Wabnic. © Aparté
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Live)

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Opera - Released January 17, 2007 | Orfeo

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Claudio Monteverdi : Madrigali Vol. 2 (Mantova)

Paul Agnew

Secular Vocal Music - Released September 22, 2014 | Les Arts Florissants

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Schumann : Symphonien 1 - 4

Sir Simon Rattle

Classical - Released May 23, 2014 | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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And so, after much expectation, the entire set of Schumann’s Symphonies by Simon Rattle has finally been released with Berliner Philharmoniker’s brand new own label. The 2013 live recordings are extraordinarily thorough: Rattle has truly outdone himself. His direction is incredibly clear, and he benefits from a smaller orchestra with a reduced amount of strings. This is a more ‘reasonable’ set up, as it restores balance between the different instruments. This is especially the case in the sections containing a lot of wood instruments, as all too often conductors let the strings drown out all other sounds without worrying about the ‘chamber music’ essence of the symphonies. It is also noteworthy that the fourth symphony is offered in its original 1841 version, which chronologically makes it his second production. The rearranged version of 1851 is thicker, and contains considerable differences in the music itself. This was not Brahms’ preferred version, and so he published the 1841 original version in 1891, just after Clara Schumann had placed the 1851 rearrangement on the market.
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Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

Gary Hoffman

Chamber Music - Released September 29, 2023 | La Dolce Volta

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Antonín Dvořák: The Complete Piano Trios

Guarneri Trio Prague

Chamber Music - Released April 1, 2009 | Praga Digitals

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The Guarneri Trio Prague plays Dvorák the old-fashioned way, with lots of virtuosity and emotion. In this two-disc set of the Bohemian composer's four piano trios, the Czech group turns in performances as fiery, passionate, and thrilling as the best ever recorded. The group features a lush collective sound, plus an ensemble that's tight enough to use rubato freely, and the musicians clearly feel an affinity for the music of their country's greatest composer. In the F minor Trio, one of Dvorák's most heartfelt chamber works, their playing glows with a searing intensity. In the early B flat major and G minor trios, the Guarneri delivers highly energized readings that make the most of the works' ardent lyricism (while effectively disguising the music's occasional formal excesses). And in the Dumky Trios, six single-movement works set in the archetypical Bohemian dance form, combining deeply melancholic outer sections with wildly exuberant central sections, their performances are hugely affecting and exciting. Though longtime fans of the composer may already have favorite performances of these works, they will surely find much to enjoy here. Listeners who don't already know them but are fond of Dvorák will likely be transported. Praga's sound is close and very vivid. © TiVo
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Schumann: The 4 Symphonies by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Classical - Released January 17, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 14

Prazak Quartet

Quartets - Released January 1, 2002 | Praga Digitals

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Handel: Caio Fabbricio

London Early Opera

Opera - Released June 3, 2022 | Signum Records

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The conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham brings back to life Handel’s pasticcio opera, Caio Fabbricio first performed in London in 1733 and based on an earlier opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1732). Caio Fabbricio is London Early Opera’s eighth album in the prestigious Handel Series with Signum Records and is a pasticcio opera, a brilliant and well-considered collection of some of the finest 18th century Neapolitan arias by different composers, including Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo, selected and arranged by Handel who composed his own dramatic recitatives. © Signum Records
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492

Luca Pisaroni

Classical - Released July 1, 2016 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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This Marriage of Figaro is perhaps the most exciting to happen for quite some time. The maestro in charge is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who directs the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a star-studded roster of singers specially selected for the occasion. The idea for this recording came out of the numerous modern reinterpretations of the piece, coupled with the aim to recreate the sounds of the past. As such, when you listen to the piece, it's at once powerfully modern yet "obvious". The recitativos are conceived musically rather than theatrically (surely a plus on an audio recording!) while the recording itself took place at a concert in Baden-Baden in 2015, which helps the performance move along tremendously and flow between each piece. A real gem. 
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Edward Elgar : Cello Concerto, Op. 85 - Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Classical - Released October 18, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Ludwig van Beethoven : Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Duets - Released September 22, 2014 | harmonia mundi

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Monteverdi : Madrigali (Cremona), Vol. 1

Paul Agnew

Classical - Released May 11, 2015 | Les Arts Florissants

Hi-Res Booklet Distinctions 5 de Diapason - Gramophone Award - Gramophone Editor's Choice - Choc de Classica