Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne

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Release Date: 7th Jul 2017
Catalogue No: 9029580174
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492

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Audrey Mildmay (soprano), Italo Tajo (bass), Luise Helletsgrüber (soprano), Aulikki Rautawaara (soprano), Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (baritone), Constance Willis (mezzo-soprano), Heddle Nash (tenor), Roy Henderson (baritone), Fergus Dunlop (bass), Morgan Jones (tenor), Norman Allin (bass), Winifred Radford (soprano)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Fritz Busch

Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Overture to Act 1

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"Cinque ... dieci ... venti" (Figaro, Susanna)

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"Se a caso Madama" (Figaro, Susanna)

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"Se vuol ballare" (Figaro, Susanna)

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"La vendetta, oh, la vendetta" (Bartolo)

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"Via resti servita, madama brillante" (Marcellina, Susanna)

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"Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio" (Cherubino)

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"Cosa sento!" (Conte, Basilio, Susanna)

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"Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso" (Figaro)

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"Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro" (Contessa)

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"Voi, che sapete che cosa è amor" (Cherubino)

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"Venite, inginocchiatevi" (Susanna)

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"Susanna, or via sortite" (Conte, Contessa, Susanna)

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"Aprite, presto, aprite" (Susanna, Cherubino)

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"Esci omai, garzon malnato" (Conte, Contessa)

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"Signore! Cos'è quel stupore?" (Susanna, Conte, Contessa, Figaro)

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"Conoscete, signor Figaro" (Conte, Figaro, Susanna, Contessa, Antonio)

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"Voi, signor, che giusto siete" (Marcellina, Bartolo, Basilio, Conte, Susanna, Contessa, Figaro)

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"Crudel! Perché finora farmi languir così?" (Conte, Susanna)

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"Hai già vinta la causa! ... Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro" (Conte)

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"Riconosci in quest'amplesso" (Marcellina, Figaro, Bartolo, Curzio, Conte, Susanna)

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"E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono" (Contessa)

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" ... sull'aria - Che soave zeffiretto" (Susanna, Contessa)

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"Ricevete, o padroncina" (Chorus)

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"Ecco la marcia ... Amanti costanti" (Figaro, Susanna, Conte, Contessa, Chorus)

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"Tutto è disposto ... Aprite un po' quegli occhi" (Figaro)

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"Giunse alfin il momento ... Deh, vieni, non tardar" (Susanna)

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"Pian, pianin, le andrò più presso" (Cherubino, Contessa, Conte, Susanna, Figaro)

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"Tutto è tranquillo e placido" (Figaro, Susanna)

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"Pace, pace, mio dolce tesoro" (Figaro, Conte, Susanna)

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"Gente, gente, all'armi, all'armi!" (All)

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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

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Heddle Nash (tenor), Ina Souez (soprano), John Brownlee (baritone), Irene Eisinger (mezzo-soprano), Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (baritone), Luise Helletsgruber (soprano)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Fritz Busch

Così fan tutte, K. 588: Sinfonia to Act 1

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"La mia Dorabella capace non è ... Fuor' Ia spade" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"È Ia fede delle femmine ... Scioccherie di poeti!" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"Una bella serenata" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"Ah guarda, sorella ... Mi par, che stamattina" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso)

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"Barbaro fato! ... Vorrei dir, e cor non ho ... Stelle I Per caritb, Signor Alfonso" (Fiordiligi, Don Alfonso, Dorabella)

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"Sento, O Dio, che questo piede" (Guglielmo, Ferrando, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"O cielo, questo è il tamburo ... Bella vita militar! ... Non v'è più tempo ... Muoio d'affanno!" (Ferrando, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Chorus)

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"Di scrivermi ogni giorno ... Bella vita militar!" (Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Chorus)

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"Dove son? Son partiti ... Soave sia il vento" (Dorabella, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi)

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"Non son cattivo comico" (Don Alfonso)

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"Che vita maledetta ... Ah, scostati! " (Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Smanie implacabili" (Dorabella)

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"Signora Dorabella, Signora Fiordiligi" (Despina, Dorabella, Fiordiligi)

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"In uomini, in soldati" (Despina)

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"Despinetta! ... Chi batte?" (Don Alfonso, Despina)

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"Alla bella Despinetta" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Che sussurro!" (Don Alfonso, Dorabella, FiordiIigi, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina)

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"Come scoglio immoto resta" (Fiordiligi)

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"Ah, non partite! ... Non siate ritrosi" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Dorabella, Fiordiligi)

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"Èvoi ridete? ... Si può sapere un poco" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo)

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"Un'aura amorosa" (Ferrando)

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"Ah, che tutta in un momento" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Si mora, si, si mora" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despinal, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Eccovi il medico" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despinal, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Dove son? Che loco è questo?" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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" Dammi un bacio, o mio tesoro" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Andate là, che siete" (Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Una donna a quindici anni" (Despina)

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"Sorella, cosa dici?" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Prenderò quel brunettino ... Ah correte al giardino" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso)

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Così fan tutte, K. 588, Act 2 "Secondate, aurette amiche" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Chorus)

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"Cos'è tal mascherata? ... La mano a me date" (FiordiIigi, Dorabella, Despina, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"Oh che bella giornata!" (FiordiIigi, Ferrando, Dorabella, Guglielmo)

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"Il core vi dono" (Guglielmo, Dorabella)

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"Barbara, perché tuggi? ... Ei parte ... " (Ferrando, Fiordiligi)

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"Per pièta, ben mio, perdona" (Fiordiligi)

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"Amico, abbiamo vinto!" (Ferrando, Guglielmo)

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"Donna mie, la fate a tanti ... Bravo, questa è costanza" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo)

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"Ora vedo che siete" (Despina, Dorabella, Fiordiligi)

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"Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti" (Fiordiligi, Ferrando)

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"Ah poveretto me, cosa ho veduto! ... Tutti accusan Ie donne ... Vittoria padroncini!" (Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Despina)

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"Fate presto, o cari amici" (Despina, Chorus, Don Alfonso)

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"Benedetti i doppi conjugi" (Chorus, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"E nel tuo, nel mio bicchiero" (Fiordiligi, Ferrando, Dorabella, Guglielmo)

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"Miel Signori, tutto è fatto" (Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina)

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"Bella vita militar!" (Chorus, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"Sani e salvi agli amplessi amorosi" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina)

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"Ah Signor, son rea di morte" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Despina)

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"Fortunato l'uom che prende" (All)

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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527

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Luise Helletsgruber (soprano), Audrey Mildmay (soprano), Salvatore Baccaloni (bass), Ina Souez (soprano), David Franklin (bass), Roy Henderson (baritone), John Brownlee (baritone), Koloman von Pataky (tenor)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Fritz Busch

Don Giovanni, K. 527: Overture to Act 1

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"Notte e giorno faticar ... " (Leporello)

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"Non sperar, se non muccidi" (Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Lasciala, indegno!" (Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Ah, soccorso!" (Commendatore)

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"Leporello, ove sei?" (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Ah del padre in periglio ... " (Donna Anna, Don Ottavio)

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"Fuggi, crudele, fuggi" (Donna Anna, Don Ottavio)

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"Orsù, spicciati presto ... " (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Ah, chi mi dice mai" (Donna Elvira)

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"Chi è là?" (Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Madamina, il catalogo e questo ... " (Leporello)

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"Giovinette che fate all'amore ... " (Zerlina, Chorus, Masetto)

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"Manco male, è partita." (Don Giovanni, Leporello, Zerlina, Masetto)

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"Ho capito, signor si." (Masetto)

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"Alfin siam liberati ... " (Don Giovanni, Zerlina)

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"La ci darem Ia mano ... " (Don Giovanni, Zerlina)

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"Fermati, scellerato!" (Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Don Giovanni)

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"Ah, fuggi il traditor!" (Donna Elvira)

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"Mi par choggi il demonio ... " (Don Giovanni, Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira)

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"Non ti fidar, o misera ... " (Don Giovanni, Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira)

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"Don Ottavio, son morta!" (Donna Anna, Don Ottavio)

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"Or sai chi 'onore ... " (Donna Anna, Don Ottavio)

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"Come mai creder deggio ... " (Don Ottavio)

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"Dalla sua pace ... " (Don Ottavio)

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"Io deggio ad ogni patto ... " (Leporello, Don Giovanni)

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"Finch'han dal vino ... " (Don Giovanni)

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"Masetto, senti un po ... " (Zerlina, Masetto)

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"Batti, batti, o bel Masetto ... " (Zerlina)

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"Guarda un po ... " (Masetto, Don Giovanni, Zerlina)

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"Presto, presto, pria ch'ei venga ... " (Masetto, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Chorus)

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"Bisogna aver coraggio ... " (Donna Elvira, Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, Leporello, Don Giovanni)

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"Riposate, vezzose ragazze." (Don Giovanni, Leporello, Masetto, Zerlina)

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"Eh via, buffone, non mi seccar!" (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Leporello! ... Signore?" (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Ah taci, ingiusto core!" (Donna Elvira, Leporello, Don Giovanni)

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"Amico, che ti par?" (Don Giovanni, Leporello, Donna Elvira)

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"Deh vieni alla finestra ... " (Don Giovanni)

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"V'è gente alla finestra ... " (Don Giovanni, Masetto)

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Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act 2 "Metà di voi qua vadano ... " (Don Giovanni)

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"Zitto, lascia ch'io senta!" (Don Giovanni, Masetto)

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"Vedrai, carino ... " (Zerlina)

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"Di molte faci il lume ... " (Leporello, Donna Elvira)

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"Sola, sola in buio loco ... " (Donna Elvira, Leporello, Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, Zerlina, Masetto)

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"Dunque quello sei tu ... " (Zerlina, Donna Elvira, Don Ottavio, Masetto)

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"Ah, pietà! signori miei!" (Leporello)

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"Ferma, perfido, ferma!" (Donna Elvira, Masetto, Zerlina, Don Ottavio)

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"Il mio tesoro ... " (Don Ottavio)

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"In quaIi eccessi ... " (Donna Elvira)

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"Mi tradi, quell'alma ingrata ... " (Donna Elvira)

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"Ah, ah, ah, questa e buona ... " (Don Giovanni, Leporello, La Statua)

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"O statua gentilissima ... " (Leporello, Don Giovanni)

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"Calmatevi, idol mio!" (Don Ottavio, Donna Anna)

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"Crudele? Ah no, mio bene!" (Donna Anna)

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"Non mi dir, bell'idol mio ... " (Donna Anna)

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"Già Ia mensa è preparata" (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Questa poi Ia conosco purtroppo" (Leporello, Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira)

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"Che grido è questo mai?" (Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Don Giovanni a cenar teco ... " (La Statua, Don Giovanni, Leporello)

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"Ah, dove il perfido?" (Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Don Ottavio, Masetto, Donna Anna, Leporello)

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"Or che tutti, o mio tesoro ... " (Don Ottavio, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Masetto, Leporello)

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"Questo è il fin di chi fa mal." (All)

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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (highlights)

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Erich Kunz (baritone), Blanche Thebom (mezzo-soprano), Mario Borriello (baritone), Sena Jurinac (mezzo-soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Fritz Busch

"La mia Dorabella capace non è ... Fuor' Ia spade" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"È la fede delle femmine ... Scioccherie di poeti!" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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" Una bella serenata" (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

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"Ah, guarda, sorella" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Sento, O Dio, che questo piede" (Guglielmo, Ferrando, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella)

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"Non v'è più tempo, amici ... Di scrivermi ogni giorno" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Guglielmo, Ferrando, Don Alfonso)

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"Dove son? ... Soave sia il vento" (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso)

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"Come scogIio immoto resta" (Fiordiligi)

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"Dunque fa' un po' tu ... Prenderò quel brunettino" (Dorabella, Fiordiligi)

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"Questa picciola offerta ... Il core vi dono" (Guglielmo, Dorabella)

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"Ei parte ... Senti! ... Ah, no! ... Per pietà, ben mio perdona" (Fiordiligi)

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"Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti" (Fiordiligi, Ferrando)

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"Dunque fa' un po' tu ... Prenderò quel brunettino" (Dorabella, Fiordiligi) [Rehearsal]

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"Per pieta, ben mio perdona" (Fiordiligi) [Rehearsal]

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"Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti" (Fiordiligi, Ferrando) [Rehearsal]

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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366

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Alexander Young (tenor), Sena Jurinac (mezzo-soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), Dorothy McNeil (tenor)
Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Fritz Busch

Idomeneo, K. 366: Overture to Act 1

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"Quando avran fine omai " (Ilia)

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"Padre, germani, addio!" (Ilia)

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"Vedrommi intorno I'ombra dolente" (Idomeneo)

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"Se il padre perdei" (Ilia)

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"Fuor del mar" (Idomeneo)

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March

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"Sidonie sponde!" (Elettra)

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"Placido è il mar" (Chorus, Elettra)

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"Qual nuovo terrore!" (Chorus)

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"Eccoti in me" (Idomeneo)

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"Corriamo, fuggiamo" (Chorus)

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"Zeffiretti lusinghieri" (Ilia)

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"Andrò ramingo e solo" (Idamante, Ilia, ldomeneo, Elettra)

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"O voto tremendo!" (Chorus, High priest)

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March

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"Accogli, o re del mar" (Idomeneo, Chorus)

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2: "Grosser Sarastro!" (Speaker)

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Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert (vocals)

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Fritz Busch (1890-1951) was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. His father was a former itinerant musician who became an instrument maker, and his brothers were violinist Adolf Busch and cellist Hermann Busch. Fritz Busch went to Cologne Conservatory in 1909, studying conducting with Steinbach.

He became music director of the city of Aachen in 1912, serving there until World War I began. After serving in the army during the war, he returned to Aachen to conduct the Municipal Opera. Six weeks later, he was appointed music director of the Stuttgart Opera. He quickly became famous for his performances and for enlarging the repertory and discovering new composers. He premiered operas by Paul Hindemith and Pfitzner, and adopted the designer Adolphe Appia's revolutionary approach for a staging of Wagner’s Ring. In 1922, Busch became music director of the Dresden State Opera. Among the premieres in his 11 years there were Strauss' Intermezzo (1924) and Die Ägyptische Helena (1928), Hindemith's Cardillac (1926), Busoni's Doktor Faust (1925), and Weill's Der Protagonist (1926). He maintained high artistic levels with often progressive and provocative stagings and used leading artists to design sets and costumes. At the 1932 Salzburg Festival he conducted a notable production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, designed by Carl Ebert and superbly cast,

Busch’s open contempt of the Nazi government, which came to power in Germany in 1933, caused him to be fired from his post in Dresden. At the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires he conducted the first-ever complete performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion to be given in the Americas. He returned to Europe, appearing with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Stockholm Philharmonic, beginning a long-standing relationship with them.

Then John Christie, a wealthy English landowner, invited Busch to become music director of a summer opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country estate not far from the coast in Sussex. Busch accepted, bringing Carl Ebert as artistic director. Glyndebourne soon became a prestigious summer festival, famous for meticulous musical preparation and astute casting. Mozart became they mainstay of Glyndebourne, but Busch also staged larger-scale works, including Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Verdi's Macbeth. After the outbreak of World War II (which closed Glyndebourne from 1939-1945 and made travel to Scandinavia impossible), Busch withdrew mainly to South America, although he made appearances at the New York Philharmonic. His Metropolitan Opera debut took place on November 26, 1945 with Wagner's Lohengrin. He remained on the Met's conducting roster until 1949, but focused on conducting the company's annual national tours. He frequently conducted the Chicago Symphony between 1948 and 1950, and resumed his association with the Scandinavian orchestras (in 1949) and with Glyndebourne (in 1950). He returned to lead a few concerts in Austria and Germany (Vienna State Opera, 1950; Cologne and Hamburg, 1951). Fritz Busch died in London on 14th September 1951.

Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne

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