COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: Warner
WORKS: Die Zauberflöte
PERFORMER: Matti Salminen, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Thomas Hampson, Edita Gruberova; Zurich Opera/Harnoncourt
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 691272 (1988)
Harnoncourt’s Mozart can veer between the playful and the over solemn, but here it’s spot on and sustained by a strong cast. Gruberova is a stellar Queen of the Night. Christopher Cook