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 Mozart arias for the car or beach house. The recordings date from between 1961 and 1987, but they have been remastered into a clear and coherent whole. Each track features a different ...
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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 Mozart arias for the car or beach house. The recordings date from between 1961 and 1987, but they have been remastered into a clear and coherent whole. Each track features a different singer, so the album could just as easily be a sampler of singers as one of Mozart; the arias are grouped into sets of three or four each from Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Magic Flute. The individual performances are consistently good. Listeners may well have their own favorites, but a few highlights are the languorously seductive "Là ci darem la mano" from Roger Soyer and Helen Donath (track 2), a "Voi che sapete" from Fiorenza Cossotto (track 12)...
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