A recording of Mozart's Idomeneo with Ian Bostridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, was released at amazon.fr on 26 August 2002. Also available from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.
Stanley Sadie wrote in the September 2002 issue of Gramophone, "[T]his new set, enshrining Mackerras's profound and mature understanding of the music, is the most moving performance of the opera, perhaps of any opera, that I have heard on records, and I urge readers to buy it." |
