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...Mozart by Glyndebourne's first conductor, Fritz Busch, sound inevitable today: original languages, a minimum of bel canto fireworks and intimate orchestration as Mozart scored it. Venetian operas now returning to the international repertory were first revived here only a decade ago under the direction of Musicologist Raymond Leppard. Glyndebourne's current showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring...
Mozart: The "Great" Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (New Philharmonia Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, conductor; Seraphim; $3.98). Over the years, publishers have used the word great to distinguish this work from a Mass in the same key written when Mozart was still in his teens. But if ever a score deserved that adjective without qualification, it is K. 427. Composed in 1782-83, its style looks backward to the cantata-type Mass of Bach's day, but its expressiveness and symphonic drive anticipate Beethoven and the romantic era. The performance, led by Conductor-Musicologist Leppard, would be worth having...
...wife Patricia decided that the university's music complex needed a more intimate house alongside it. To open its acoustically superb 400-seat Patricia Corbett Theater, the university announced what seemed an unlikely production: Pier Francesco Cavalli's 321-year-old opera Calisto, which Conductor Raymond Leppard dusted off for Britain's Glyndebourne Festival in 1970. By last week, the little-known Calisto was the hottest ticket in town...
...Argo). Something practically unheard-of: an authentic, workable masterpiece miraculously retrieved from the past. One of the 17th century Venetian composers influenced by Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli wrote melodiously, with great penetration into the personal relationships of his characters. The present recording stems from an edition pieced together by Raymond Leppard from musical fragments for a Glyndebourne production in 1967. The result is musically and dramatically spellbinding...