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

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Opera - Released February 16, 2018 | Orfeo

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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588

Charles Mackerras

Classical - Released March 29, 1994 | Telarc

This recording of Così fan tutte 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 functions so integrally as part of the whole ensemble, and each is vocally and dramatically 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 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: Cosi fan tutte

Sir Colin Davis

Classical - Released October 26, 2010 | Opus Arte

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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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Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Concertos - Released October 6, 2023 | Chandos

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With this 2023 release, the cycle of Mozart's mature piano concertos by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, with the Manchester Camerata under conductor Gabor Takács-Nagy, reaches its end. The series, with a modern piano but an economical approach that shows some influence from the historical performance movement, has found both critical and popular success, and this finale will not disappoint. Bavouzet is a technically clean pianist who can impress with the elegance of any given phrase, but what strikes the listener considering his Mozart work as a whole is the way he approaches each piece as an individual. His Mozart is entirely different from his Haydn, as revealed in a long series of fine piano sonata recordings, and he is very sensitive to the development of Mozart's style, capturing subtle interaction between piano and winds in the big middle-period concertos and backing off to a simpler melodicism in these late ones. In the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537 ("Coronation"), he prepares his own version of the incompletely notated left-hand part, and he adds some light ornamentation to the rather bare, slow movement. Bavouzet's Mozart albums have included overtures from the period of the concertos involved, and here, one gets no fewer than three from the last three Mozart operas. Takács-Nagy integrates these with the concertos beautifully, and the program as a whole has a satisfying effect that brings to mind Mozart's remark about the connoisseurs and the amateurs; the album can be appreciated at multiple levels. Chandos' engineering work at the Stoller Hall in Manchester is once again exemplary. This release made classical best-seller lists in the autumn of 2023.© James Manheim /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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spielt Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven

Rondò Veneziano

Classical - Released September 6, 2004 | Ariola Express

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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: Overtures

Die Kölner Akademie

Classical - Released January 19, 2024 | BIS

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The Kölner Akademie and its conductor, Michael Alexander Willens, have sometimes used historical instruments. Here, the instruments seem to be modern, but the approach is still that of the historical performance movement, with crisp attacks and generally brisk tempos. Willens' textures are transparent enough to bring out inner counterpoint but not, as in so many historically oriented performances, enough so to shortchange the strings. Some of these pieces, of course, are among the most familiar Mozart pieces, and indeed the most familiar in the entire classical repertory; listeners wanting to hear the overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, will find a rapid but graceful reading here. However, this is also a generous selection of overtures, and a close focus on the early Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87, composed when Mozart was 14, reveals its striking ambition and the speed with which Mozart was absorbing influence from his older composer friend, Josef Mysliveček. One might even ask why Willens did not include the overtures to some of the other earlier Mozart pieces, inasmuch as the album clocks in at only 62 minutes. In some cases, there is a question as to whether a work should be classified as an opera, but the overture to Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50, which seems known to Beethoven as he was composing the "Eroica" Symphony, has its charms. In any event, the album was cleanly recorded by the BIS label at Cologne Radio, and it provides a peppy hour of Mozart for anyone. It landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2024.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Mozart: Opera Overtures

Sir Neville Marriner

Classical - Released January 1, 1991 | Warner Classics

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Mozart: En harmonie

Zefiro

Classical - Released March 11, 2014 | Arcana

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Leontyne Price - In Concert at the Met

Leontyne Price

Vocal Recitals - Released January 1, 1983 | RCA Red Seal

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Mozart: Così fan tutte (Highlights - Sung in German)

Otmar Suitner

Opera - Released January 1, 1970 | Eterna

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Monteverdi: Concerto. Settimo libro de' madrigali

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Classical - Released November 18, 2022 | naïve

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At the turn of the seventeenth century, the madrigal migrated from the seclusion of private rooms to the theatre. With this came new expectations in order to create a greater spectacle for viewers. Among them was the demand for increased dramatic expressiveness.Monteverdi's Seventh Book of Madrigals (1619) was written when the composer had settled in Venice. He finally enjoyed complete freedom directing the Cappella Marciana, the choir of St Mark's Basilica in Venice. This, combined with the artistic vivacity that runs through the City of the Doges provides a libretto that is fascinating in its polyphonic explorations and written complexity. This is a stark contrast to the Sixth Book, published five years earlier. The quest for a perfect, almost physical equivalence between the text and the music has led to instrumentation that serves as an ideal setting for the vocals.Always at the top of their game, Rinaldo Alessandrini and the Concerto Italiano beautifully perform this music sparkling with purity and beauty. Soprano Monica Piccinini’s ethereal tone particularly stands out. Her voice is truly indispensable to the ensemble's productions. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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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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Monteverdi & Marazzoli : Combattimenti !

Vincent Dumestre

Classical - Released October 21, 2010 | Alpha Classics

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : La finta giardiniera

René Jacobs

Full Operas - Released October 9, 2012 | harmonia mundi

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Classical - Released January 1, 2016 | Orfeo