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There is magic in this Die Zauberflöte -- the warmly glowing intonation of La Petite Bande, the pure Pamina of Suzie LeBlanc, the idealized Sorastro of Cornelius Hauptmann, the ardent Tamino of Christoph Genz, the robust Papageno of Stephan Genz, the lovely Papagna of Marie Kuijken, the deeply knowing conducting of Sigiswald Kuijken, even the corny thundercrashes -- but there is also one huge drawback -- the spoken dialogue. The amount of spoken dialogue included has always been a crucial issue for recordings of Die Zauberflöte -- too little and the story is all but incomprehensible, too much and listeners may grow restless waiting for the characters to stop speaking to each other in German, especially if they themselves don't speak German. For the completists and German speakers, Kuijken has included all the spoken dialogue. While this has its charms -- Genz's Papageno's fright is quite convincing -- the dialogue stops the music dead in its tracks every three to five minutes. Depending on the listener, this will either delightfully enhance or fatally detract from what is otherwise a thoroughly beguiling Die Zauberflöte. Amati's sound is deep and clear, but a little reverberant and very live.
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Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
DISC 2
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
DISC 3
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Isolde Siebert (Queen of the Night) - Suzie Leblanc (Pamina) - Christoph Genz (Tamino) - Cornelius Hauptmann (Sarastro) - Stephan Genz (Papageno) - Marie Kuijken (Papagena) - Philip Defrancq (Monostatos) - Stephan Schreckenberger (Speaker) - Inge Van De Kerkhove (First Lady) - Patrizia Hardt (Second Lady) - Chorus and Orchestra La Petite Bande - Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor
Album review
There is magic in this Die Zauberflöte -- the warmly glowing intonation of La Petite Bande, the pure Pamina of Suzie LeBlanc, the idealized Sorastro of Cornelius Hauptmann, the ardent Tamino of Christoph Genz, the robust Papageno of Stephan Genz, the lovely Papagna of Marie Kuijken, the deeply knowing conducting of Sigiswald Kuijken, even the corny thundercrashes -- but there is also one huge drawback -- the spoken dialogue. The amount of spoken dialogue included has always been a crucial issue for recordings of Die Zauberflöte -- too little and the story is all but incomprehensible, too much and listeners may grow restless waiting for the characters to stop speaking to each other in German, especially if they themselves don't speak German. For the completists and German speakers, Kuijken has included all the spoken dialogue. While this has its charms -- Genz's Papageno's fright is quite convincing -- the dialogue stops the music dead in its tracks every three to five minutes. Depending on the listener, this will either delightfully enhance or fatally detract from what is otherwise a thoroughly beguiling Die Zauberflöte. Amati's sound is deep and clear, but a little reverberant and very live.
© TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 54 track(s)
- Total length: 02:37:12
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: Sigiswald Kuijken
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical Opera
- Collection: Brilliant Opera Collection
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