Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
...tickets. We'd rather go out and buy that new Kiri Te Kanawa CD than open up this month's phone bill. We'll stay home to watch a Live from the Met broadcast instead of taking our chances on the new Arnold Schwarzenegger film. And even our beloved Mozart, Wagner and Puccini LP's are showing severe wear and tear...
...Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, bar none, remains one of the most beloved operas of any composer. This comedy of mismatched lovers and mistaken identities contains some of the most uplifting and well-crafted of Mozart's music. And, thanks to some superb singing and character acting, along with a solid orchestra performance under the direction of Music Director Benjamin Loeb, the Lowell House Opera's Marriage of Figaro more than lives up to the ambitious musical challenge of putting on a full-scale opera in a house dining hall...
Impeded at times by a fairly lame English translation of Da Ponto's libretto by Andrew Porter (I mean, would Susanna really call Figaro a "blockhead" in the eighteenth century?), it is Mozart in the end who gives us the most aural pleasure. Who can resist the remarkable closing scene of The Marriage of Figaro, in which Figaro and Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva, Marcellina and Bartolo and all other cast members join together in praise of love and happiness? It's a scene not to be missed, confirming Mozart's brilliance in choral writing and the Lowell House...
...MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur Schnabel in memorable performances of Mozart piano concertos and solo music, recorded in London between...