Mozart's Don Giovanni Conducted by Kubelík

A mainly fine cast, but a surprisingly lightweight reading from Kubelík, as though he wanted to stress that this opera is above all a comedy, which, considering its subject-matter, it hardly is.

Michael Tanner

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3

Michael Tanner

Published: May 16, 2017 at 2:48 pm

COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: Sony
ALBUM TITLE: Mozart
WORKS: Don Giovanni
PERFORMER: Titus, Varady, Panerai, Auger, Mathis, Moser, Scholze, Rootering; Bavarian Radio Chorus & Symphony/Kubelík
CATALOGUE NO: Sony 88875194802 (1985)

A mainly fine cast, but a surprisingly lightweight reading from Kubelík, as though he wanted to stress that this opera is above all a comedy, which, considering its subject-matter, it hardly is.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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