This CD of Mozart works used in hit films, presumably released in conjunction with the Mozart 250th birthday hoopla, actually stands out from among EMI's reduce-reuse-and-recycle CD releases as a compilation that's both enjoyable and useful. The value of the collection lies in its scope and in its quality of being current -- all the films whose ...
This collection of Mozart operatic arias, performed by stars of the last generation, has gone through several reissues and appears now on the budget Classics for Pleasure line. Don't be discouraged by that -- the selections were chosen in the first place by someone who cared about Mozart singing, and this remains an ideal one-disc program of ...
This is a capable but unexciting recording of Rossini's one-act farce Il signor Bruschino. The opera itself is not the composer's strongest work, forever upstaged by its notorious overture, in which the violins tap rhythmically on their music stands with the backs of their bows -- an eyebrow-raising gag in its day. Nevertheless, the piece is ...
This release of a 1986 recording of Così fan tutte features Bernard Haitink leading the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Haitink's conducting is brisk, with a light touch, but the playing he elicits from the orchestra doesn't have the sparkle to reveal the opera in its very best light. The pacing is nuanced and lively, ...
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