COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: Warner
WORKS: Don Giovanni
PERFORMER: Hampson, Holl, Gruberova, Polgár, Bonney; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Harnoncourt
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 69125-9
Light, vibrato-less strings suggest a period approach, but Harnoncourt’s tempos seem briskly conventional, wilfully prosaic and short on supernatural atmosphere. His cast is mixed. Michael Scott Rohan