The age of miracles has not yet passed. After centuries of revolutions and wars and genocides, it is still possible for love and laughter to be prized and praised. And the proof is this recording of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Claudio Abbado directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and a cast of mostly young and ...
Casting the Classical-era repertory net beyond Franz Josef Haydn and Mozart has had the beneficial effect of showing that styles we think of as, say, specifically Mozatian often were part of the general Austrian vocabulary of the day. In the realm of sacred music, Michael Haydn's example set patterns that Mozart learned in Salzburg and followed ...
Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, written when he was 33, contains some immensely appealing music, so it's unfortunate it's so rarely performed or recorded. The secular Romantic oratorio is a genre that's not much in style, so it's especially nice to have such a fine performance available on this RCA SACD. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whose use of ...
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