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Mozart - La finta giardiniera, K196
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 5
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bavouzet’s performances are given with ‘beaded bubbles winking at the brim’ – Keats’ wonderfully apt metaphor – and he is ideally partnered by Takács-Nagy. The concertos are complemented by... —
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
Recommendedposthumous version from 1796
Sophie Karthäuser (Sandrina/Violante), Nicolas Rivenq (La Podesta), Jeremy Ovenden (Il Contino Belfiore), Alex Penda (Arminda), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Ramiro), Sunhae Im (Serpetta), Michael Nagy (Nardo/Roberto)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Jacobs's interpretations are always interesting, but here they slip between the magically unique and the quirky. The magical elements include the beautifully effective new orchestration of the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Verstellte Gärtnerin ('La finta giardiniera')
Sandrine Piau (Violante), Susanne Bernhard (Arminda), Lydia Teuscher (Serpetta), Olivia Vermeulen (Ramiro), Julian Prégardien (Graf Belfiore), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Don Anchise), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Roberto), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Andrew Parrott
The sufferings of the disguised Violante are f inely captured by Sandrine Piau, while the complexities of her errant (and at one time violent) lover Belfiore are well realised by Julian Prégardien... —
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
Hans Peter Blochwitz (Fracasso), Barbara Hendricks (Rosina), Siegfried Lorenz (Don Cassandro), Douglas Johnson (Don Polidoro), Ann Murray (Donna Giacinta), Andreas Schmidt (Simone), Eva Lind (Ninetta)
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Peter Schreier
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
Judy Conwell (Sandrina), Jutta-Renate Ihloff (Serpetta), Brigitte Fassbaender (Ramiro), Thomas Moser (Belfiore), Barry McDaniel (Nardo), Ezio Di Cesare (Podesta), Lilian Sukis (Arminda)
Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
Edita Gruberová, Thomas Moser, Uwe Heilmann, Charlotte Margiono, Monica Bacelli, Dawn Upshaw, Anton Scharinger
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Mozart - Operas II
Edita Gruberova (Sandrina), Dawn Upshaw (Serpetta), Monica Bacelli (Ramiro), Uwe Heilmann (Belfiore), Anton Scharinger (Nardo), Thomas Moser (Podesta), Charlotte Margiano (Arminda), J Patrick Raftery (Lucio Silla), Melanie Walz (Giunia), Kristina Hammarström (Cecilio), Sophie Marin-Degor (Celia),...
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Mozart Complete Edition Box 14 - Middle Italian Operas
Ezio Di Cesare, Julia Conwell, Thomas Moser, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lilian Sukis, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Barry McDaniel, Angela Maria Blasi, Sylvia McNair, Iris Vermillion, Jerry Hadley, Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö, Francisco Araiza, Susanne Mentzer, Barbara Hendricks, Roberta Alexander, Uwe Heilmann, Inga Nielsen,...
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Mozart: La finta Giardiniera
Krešimir Špicer (Don Anchise), Julie Martin du Theil (La Marchesa Violante), Bernard Richter (Il Contino Belfiore), Anett Fritsch (Arminda), Lucia Cirillo (Ramiro), Giulia Semenzato (Serpetta), Mattia Olivieri (Nardo)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (on period instruments), Diego Fasolis, Frederic...
this is an interesting and hugely enjoyable performance of a production that certainly has its flaws and errors, but also the merit of original thought that fundamentally respects the intentions... —
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Special offer. Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
From Drottningholm Court Theatre 1988
Ann Christine Biel, Annika Skolund, Richard Croft, Stuart Kale, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Eva Pilat, Petteri Salomaa
The Drottningholm Court Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, Arnold Östman, stage direction by Göran Järvefelt
Early Mozart comedy contemporary with the theatre where it's staged, with period style extending to the players' costumes. Likeable piece, likeably performed. —
