Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro & Bastien und Bastienne

Rita Streich (Susanna), Walter Berry (Figaro), Sena Jurinac (Countess Almaviva), Paul Schöffler (Count Almaviva), Christa Ludwig (Cherubino), Ira Malaniuk (Marcellina), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Erich Majkut (Basilio), Murray Dickie (Curzio), Karl Dönch (Antonio), Rosl Schwaiger (Barbarina), Ilse...

Jurinac serves Countess Almaviva with lovely tone, but her breath-control is challenged by Bohm's protracted tempo for 'Porgi amor'...The female side is admirable, for Streich sparkles in silvery... — International Record Review, December 2011 More…

Release Date: 15th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: GHCD23737475
Label: Guild
Series: Historical

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Rita Streich (Susanna), Walter Berry (Figaro), Sena Jurinac (Countess Almaviva), Paul Schöffler (Count Almaviva), Christa Ludwig (Cherubino), Ira Malaniuk (Marcellina), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Erich Majkut (Basilio), Murray Dickie (Curzio), Karl Dönch (Antonio), Rosl Schwaiger (Barbarina)
Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Symphoniker
Karl Böhm

Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, K50

Ilse Holweg (Bastienne), Waldemar Kment (Bastien), Walter Berry (Colas)
Wiener Symphoniker
Sir John Pritchard

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This valuable three CD set couples two of the most admired complete recordings of Mozart operas from the 1950s which have long since been unavailable. Karl Böhm was one of the greatest Mozart conductors of his generation, and on this complete Viennese recording of Le nozze di Figaro he directs a cast which at the time could not have been bettered, featuring some of the finest post-war Mozart singers. Sir John Pritchard completes the set with a sparking performance of Mozart's very early one-act opera Bastien und Bastienne, a delightful opera which is very rarely heard today. The recorded sound is of excellent vintage.

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Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Karl Böhm, John Pritchard

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December 2011

Jurinac serves Countess Almaviva with lovely tone, but her breath-control is challenged by Bohm's protracted tempo for 'Porgi amor'...The female side is admirable, for Streich sparkles in silvery freshness and Christa Ludwig's Cherubino benefits from a rounded tone...Berry, in rousing voice, is an ebullient Figaro. Paul Schoffler's voice has lost some richness, but he is an intelligent singer.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro & Bastien und Bastienne

3 CDs

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