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Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte | Chandos - Opera in English CHAN31523

Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte

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Label: Chandos - Opera in English

Cat No: CHAN31523

Barcode: 0095115315224

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Artists

Janice Watson (soprano)
Lesley Garrett (soprano)
Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
David Watkin (cello)
John Cohen (cello)
Ronald Schneider (fortepiano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Cosi fan tutte, K588

Artists

Janice Watson (soprano)
Lesley Garrett (soprano)
Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
David Watkin (cello)
John Cohen (cello)
Ronald Schneider (fortepiano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

About

Così fan tutte is Mozart’s third opera to a Da Ponte libretto. It is in opera buffa style and has only six characters, two couples and an elderly philosopher and a trusted maid. In this recording, Lesley Garrett sings the part of the maid, Despina, and the celebrated veteran Sir Thomas Allen the philosopher, Don Alfonso. Despite the somewhat cynical storyline, this opera contains some of Mozart’s most memorable and sublime music.

The conductor, Sir Charles Mackerras, has spent many years researching performance practice of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is a noted authority on Mozart’s operas. He writes of this recording, ‘it is indeed a pleasure having the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lending its expertise in tonal colour, phrasing and rhythmic impulse to Mozart’s wonderful score… I have chosen to record this English version of Così fan tutte with the traditional cuts, thus making it closer to a staged performance’. The English translation, by the Rev. Browne, was first used in London at a performance conducted by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford in 1890.

Mackerras is a hugely talented conductor with a wealth of experience to bring to this his twelfth recording on Chandos Opera in English. Indeed, his recording of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, which also appears on the Chandos Opera in English label, won the 2008 Grammy award for Best Opera.

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