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