Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Natalie Dessay, Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart: Mitridate [1999]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 789 Mb | Total time: 174:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 460 772-2 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 789 Mb | Total time: 174:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 460 772-2 | Recorded: 1998
This full-length opera seria–written by Mozart at age 14–has had some strong recorded exposure in the past, but this set may bring it to a broader public than ever before. Now that Handel's operas in the same genre are much more in evidence, what once might've seemed like the work of an underdeveloped dramatist is only Mozart maintaining the status quo, which is a long, expository, musically conservative first act followed by two shorter acts with much more individualistic arias, some of them exquisite and among the composer's very best. Conductor Christophe Rousset is perfect for finding the dramatic center of every moment.