COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
PERFORMER: Rothenberger, Popp, Gedda; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna PO/Krips
CATALOGUE NO: EMI 640 7342
The sturdy tempos of Joseph Krips (1966) give time and space to relish Gedda in his cool, elegant youth; Rothenburger’s Konstanze, generous of expression and of coloratura; Popp’s delectable Blonde; and Frick’s giant of an Osmin. Hilary Finch