by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Recordings
Harmonia Mundi's recording of Mozart's COSI
FAN TUTTE has the Concerto Köln (period instruments) conducted by René Jacobs,
with a cast of Veronique Gens (Fiordiligi), Bernarda Fink (Dorabella), Werner
Guera (Ferrando), Marcel Boone (Guglielmo), Pietro Spagnoli (Don Alfonso), and
Graciela Oddone (Despina). Bernard Jacobson in FANFARE of July/August 1999
found that "it sounds . . . ravishing from start to finish." He went
on to write, "As for the singers in the six solo parts, . . . I can only
hail them as the nearest thing to an ideal cast." Brian Robins, writing of
the recording in the same magazine, said, "I have found it endlessly
fascinating, moving, joyful, and challenging in the extreme." Available
from amazon.com
Another relatively recent recording of COSI
FAN TUTTE that has received praise stars Renee Fleming, Anne Sofie von Otter,
Frank Lopardo, and Olaf Bär, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by
Sir Georg Solti. Available
from amazon.com
Recordings from British vendors