Word: academica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart: La Finta Semplice (Dorothea Siedberg, Edith Oravez. George Maran, August Jaresch, Alois Pernerstorfer: the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum conducted by Bernhard Paumgartner; Epic, 2 LPs). Mozart's first opera here gets a busy but clear-lined first complete performance on records. Child Prodigy Mozart handled Carlo Goldoni's boisterous love plot like a man who has been there before-a breathtaking performance by a twelve-year...
...Paumgartner first divided Mozart's total output into eight categories, selected works from each as representative of a special genre or period in Mozart's life. The big symphonies are being recorded by Amsterdam's splendid Concertgebouw Orchestra, smaller ones by Paumgartner's own Camerata Academica orchestra; concertos are assigned to Dutch artists, who may be excellent but are rarely the top Mozart specialists. Among Epic's U.S. releases so far: four Violin Concertos, sensitively played by Arthur Grumiaux; a lovely, liquid-toned performance of the Clarinet Concerto by Richard Schonhofer; intelligent, sometimes-intense versions...