Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera (Music CD) available on July 15 2018 from Base for 25.79
Mozart: La finta giardiniera available on July 11 2018 from Amazon for 25.45
EAN bar code 3149020212622 ξ1 registered September 27 2014
EAN bar code 3149020212622 ξ2 registered July 11 2018
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Classical Audio
Manufacturered by HARMONIA MUNDI
Product weight is 1.09 lbs.
Following on the remarkable and unprecedented success of his recordings of Die Zauberflote, Idomeneo, La Clemenza di Tito and the three Da Ponte operas, conductor Rene Jacobs leads an all-star cast in a performance of Mozart's La finta giardiniera, written in 1774 when the composer was only eighteen. Always an iconoclast, Jacobs chose to use a posthumous version of the score dating from 1796. Discovered in the music library of Count Heinrich Wilhelm Haugwitz in the Czech town of Namest nad Oslavou, the score includes additional wind parts and displays skillful re-orchestration. While the arranger's name remains a mystery, in view of the score's elegance and sensitivity, scholars agree he was a connoisseur of Mozart's style. Jacobs' strong cast stars British tenor Jeremy Ovenden as Count Belfiore and soprano Alexandrina Pendatchanska (aka Alex Penda) as the vengeful Arminda.
