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Harvard-Radcliffe Mozart Society Orchestra: The Impressario--Paine Hall, Harvard...
...baroque era is generally demarcated at 1750 with the death of Bach, who is not to be confused with his many less talented progeny. After the baroque era is the classical period, the time of Mozart, Haydn and others who are said to form the first Viennese School...
...MOZART: Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey, Don Giovanni; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Leporello; Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Donna Anna; Agnes Baltsa, Donna Elvira; Kathleen Battle, Zerlina; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). Salzburg Recital. Soprano Kathleen Battle, Pianist James Levine...
Karajan and Mozart were both born in Salzburg, but that seems to be about all they have in common. Karajan's readings of his countryman's ineffable music have always been heavy and rhythmically sluggish, bereft of joy or bounce. His new recording, a warm-up for his production of the opera in Salzburg this spring and summer, never comes to fiery, diabolical life. It wastes the . talents of Ramey and Battle, and features an excruciating performance by Tomowa-Sintow as the hectoring, humorless Donna Anna. Far more harmonious is Battle's recording from her 1984 recital at Karajan...
Smaller companies, such as the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theater of St. Louis, offer off-season stimulation, and Director Peter Sellars has made a reputation scandalizing the bourgeoisie, for example, setting Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Despina's Coffee Shop. Still, dullness prevails in the largest companies, where opera is viewed as a closed, dead art; innovation is largely a guerrilla endeavor carried on by partisans hiding out in the hills...