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Warner Classics: Mozart - Così Fan Tutte - Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Karl Böhm, Philharmonia Orchestra - 3 CD
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Product Details:
- UPC: 0825646913268
- Product Type: 3-CD Opera Set
- Label: Warner Classics
- Series: The Home of Opera
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Opera: Così Fan Tutte
- Conductor: Karl Böhm
- Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
- Principal Cast: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Giuseppe Taddei (Guglielmo), Alfredo Kraus (Ferrando), Hanny Steffek (Despina), Walter Berry (Don Alfonso)
- Recording Year: 1962
- Release Year: 2016
- Genre: Opera / Classical
- Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: 3-CD set
- Total Running Time: CD1 - 66:47 / CD2 - 62:04 / CD3 - 36:23
- Audio: Digital remaster (remastered 2000)
- Packaging: Jewel case, factory shrink-wrapped
- Booklet: English text & synopsis / Deutscher Text & Handlung
- Manufactured by Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Overview
Karl Böhm recorded Così Fan Tutte with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1962, and more than six decades later it remains one of the recordings every serious Mozart listener eventually comes back to. Böhm was a conductor shaped by the Viennese tradition - unhurried, precise without being cold, with a deep understanding of how Mozart's comedy works when it isn't rushed.
The cast is the kind that doesn't happen by accident. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's Fiordiligi anchors everything: luminous, emotionally layered, and technically immaculate. Christa Ludwig brings a warmer, earthier quality to Dorabella that makes the two sisters feel genuinely distinct. Alfredo Kraus as Ferrando delivers some of the most elegant tenor singing the role has received on record. Giuseppe Taddei and Walter Berry round out the male ensemble with the kind of comic authority that only comes from singers who understand operatic timing at a cellular level.
This is a reference recording - not because it's old, but because it gets the balance between wit and feeling exactly right. Mozart wrote Così as a comedy about the fragility of constancy, and nothing in this performance lets you forget that the jokes have weight behind them.
Three discs, digitally remastered, with full booklet in English and German.
Interesting Facts
- Così Fan Tutte premiered in Vienna on January 26, 1790 - just months before Mozart's death in December 1791. It was one of his final completed operas.
- The opera was considered morally questionable for much of the 19th century; some houses substituted different texts or retitled it entirely to avoid performing the story as written.
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was closely associated with her husband, producer Walter Legge, who oversaw many of the legendary EMI (now Warner Classics) opera recordings of the 1950s and 60s - including this one.
- Alfredo Kraus, the Spanish-Cuban tenor singing Ferrando, was renowned throughout his career for his exceptional breath control and the purity of his head voice - qualities that suit Mozart's writing particularly well.
- Karl Böhm conducted the world premieres of two Richard Strauss operas (Die schweigsame Frau and Daphne), cementing his place as one of the defining conductors of German-speaking opera in the 20th century.
Publishers
Originally recorded in 1962. © 1963 & Digital remastering © 2000 Parlophone Records Limited. © 2016 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company. Part of the "The Home of Opera" series.
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