Mozart: Così fan tutte ~ Bohm

Mozart: Così fan tutte ~ Bohm

Mozart: Così fan tutte ~ Bohm
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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Performer: Heinrich Schmidt
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Overture
  2. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 1: La mia Dorabella capace non è
  3. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 1: Fuor la spada
  4. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 1: � la fede delle femmine
  5. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 1: Scioccherie di poeti!
  6. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 1: Una bella serenata
  7. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Ah, guarda, sorella
  8. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Mi par che stamattina
  9. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Barbaro fato! ... Vorrei dir, e cor non ho
  10. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Stelle! Per carità, Signor Alfonso
  11. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Sento, oddio, che questo piede
  12. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: La commedia è graziosa
  13. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Bella vita militar!
  14. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Non v'è più tempo
  15. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Muoio d'affano! ... Di scrivermi ogni giorno
  16. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Bella vita militar!
  17. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Dove son?
  18. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Soave sia il vento
  19. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 2: Non son cattivo comico
  20. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Che vita maledetta
  21. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Ah, scostati!
  22. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Smanie implacabili che m'agitate
  23. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Signora Dorabella, Signora Fiordiligi
  24. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: In uomini, in soldati sperare fedeltà?
  25. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Che silenzio! Che aspetto di tristezza
  26. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Alla bella Despinetta
  27. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Che sussurro! Che strepito!
  28. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: L'intatta fede
  29. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Come scoglio immoto resta
  30. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Ah, non partite!
  31. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Non siate ritrosi
  32. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: E voi ridete?
  33. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: La cagion di quel riso?
  34. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 3: Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro
Music CD 2
  1. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 4: Ah, che tutto in un momento
  2. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 4: Ah, che del sole il raggio
  3. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 4: Eccovi il medico
  4. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 4: Dove son? Che loco è questo?
  5. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act I, Scene 4: Dammi un bacio, o mio tesoro
  6. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 1: Madame .. trattar l'amore
  7. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 1: Una donna a quindici anni
  8. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 1: Sorella, cosa dici?
  9. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 1: Prenderò quel brunettino
  10. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Secondate, aurette amiche
  11. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Cos'è tal mascherata?
  12. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: La mano a me date
  13. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Oh, che bella giornata!
  14. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Il core vi dono
  15. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Ei parte ... senti ... ah no!
  16. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Per pietà, ben mio, perdona
  17. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Amico, abbiamo vinto!
  18. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Donne mie, la fate a tanti a tanti
  19. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: In qual fiero contrasto
  20. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 2: Tradito, schernito
Music CD 3
  1. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: Ora vedo che siete una donna di garbo
  2. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: � amore un ladroncello
  3. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: Come tutto congiura
  4. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti
  5. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: Ah, poveretto me, cosa ho veduto!
  6. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 3: Tutti accusan le donne
  7. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Fate presto, o cari amici
  8. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Beneditti i doppi coniugi
  9. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: E nel tuo, nel mio bicchiero
  10. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Miei Signori, tutto è fatto
  11. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Bella vita militar!
  12. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Richiamata da regio contrordine
  13. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Ah, Signor, son rea di morte
  14. Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: Act II, Scene 4: Fortunato l'uom che prende

Music reviews of Mozart: Così fan tutte ~ Bohm

Music Review: The sound of perfection from long ago
Rating: 5 Stars

It is an inevitable question: Why are most of the finest Opera recordings so old? After all, recording technology is far superior now. Instrumental and vocal instruction and technique have never been better (or more standardized - consider that a clue!) Today's jet-lagged Conductors have an entire century of recordings to refer to, if they so wish (another clue!). Even the format is easier to distribute than the heavy vinyl collections of old. So what's wrong?

The key is sameness. In the "Golden-era" of the 1950's through 1970's, Instrumental, Orchestral and Vocal distinctiveness was treasured. Consider Violinists: even a relative novice could recognize the difference in tone, phrasing and attack of Heifetz, Milstein and Oistrach. All of them with similar Cultural backgrounds yet utterly distinct virtuosi. So it was with Singers and Orchestras. And distinctiveness led to true interpretive perfection of style. Don't believe me? Listen to this recording!

Cosi Fan Tutte is the "smallest" of the great Da Ponte-Mozart Operas. Essentially a Chamber-Opera for six voices, its glory resides in the unearthly beauty of Mozart's writing for their various combinations. The plot is famously slight (or lame and immoral if your name is Beethoven!). But there is something deeper here: a cynical sadness framing the broad comedy. The libretto's cynicism is also why the priggish (hypocritical?) 19th Century ignored this Opera. Mozart was nothing if not a dramatist of genius. If he felt this libretto unworthy of attention he would not have written a note. But he lavished his most sublime music on it. Clearly, he responded to it. 1790 was a hard year for him. Poverty, questions about his wife's fidelity, commercial failure all hounded him. Naturally, that wonderfully elusive emotional ambiguity that informs all of Mozart's greatest music is fully in evidence in this score. No wonder the early Romantics responded to Mozart and not Haydn.

Karl Bohm is renowned as a great Mozartean. That means he has mastered the Orchestral means of expressing that emotional ambiguity. It is devilishly difficult to simultaneously express both Mozart's surface perfection and his deeper resonance. That is why great Mozarteans are rare. Thomas Beecham also possessed this ability, as did Giulini, Erich Kleiber and (interestingly) George Szell. This 1963 Bohm-led recording (along with his DGG Figaro and Magic Flute) is one of the finest Mozart Opera recordings in the catalog.

Listen to the intensity of the minor key arias. Is this Mozart or Verdi? Only when those typically glorious woodwind interludes enter are we sure. Here is nascent Romanticism, mingled with Classical perfection and grace. Bohm grasps the need to express these polar opposites. His tempos are slower, more stately. Orchestral textures are crystal clear allowing the voices to hover above the music. The instruments seem to emerge FROM the voices, not vice versa as is prevalent today.

And what voices! Elizabeth Schwarzkopf is stunning as Fiordiligi. She is restrained in attack yet her tone is rich, her approach emotional and her expressiveness unshackled. Here is deep-feeling and pathos framed by Classical grace. Listen to her Second Act Duet with Ferrando "Fra gli amplessi in pochi istanti". This is some of her finest work on record. Christa Ludwig as Dorabella is superb, as always. She was one of those singers whose voice inhabited a role without drawing attention to itself, allowing her to become the character and not merely a voice singing a character (Pavarotti comes to mind). Giuseppe Taddei is fine as Guglielmo. Alfredo Kraus is a solid Ferrando. Hanny Steffek is a suitably comic Despina. Walter Berry a mature Don Alfonso. The Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus are wonderful, as they generally were as EMI's House-band of the era. This is a classic recording. Perhaps one of the greatest of a Mozart Opera. One hears a truly distinctive approach from an era when singularity of expression (even eccentricity) was encouraged. That is what is missing today. It may never return!

The sound of this recording is warm. Stereo separation is restrained, reflecting legendary Producer Walter Legge's equally legendary hatred for stereo. Also apparent is the more elusive sound of Mozartean perfection from a time long ago. We are fortunate indeed such greatness was recorded and remains available for all to sample. 5 stars for a truly great recording of all centuries.
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