Riccardo Muti, Wiener Philharmoniker - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas: Don Giovanni (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 646 Mb | Total time: 64:28+58:39+48:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 75535 2 | Recorded: 1990
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 646 Mb | Total time: 64:28+58:39+48:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 75535 2 | Recorded: 1990
The central facts of this brilliant performance are the conductor's vision and energy, expressed through a virtuoso orchestra and a cast carefully selected for theatrical as well as musical skills. The feeling of unrelenting pressure in the music seems to be an externalization of Don Giovanni's compulsions, which are only thinly veiled by his aristocratic manner and Mozart's mellifluous but intensely dramatic music. Riccardo Muti's tempos are often fast, but not so fast as to interfere with the fine nuances of dramatic expression in the orchestra and the singers, and he makes the gritty realities underlying the often smooth surface of the words and music intensely clear at every point.