Riccardo Minasi reviews
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, etc
Ensemble Resonanz/Riccardo Minasi, et al (Harmonia Mundi)
Mozart: Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Minasi)
Ensemble Resonanz/Riccardo Minasi (Harmonia Mundi)
Juan Diego Flórez performs extracts from operas by Mozart
Notwithstanding the publicity around this recording, Juan Diego Flórez’s Mozart CD marks no dramatic development in his artistic profile. It’s not, in fact,his first-ever Mozart recording (in Decca’s starry 1998 Mitridate he took part as Marzio); nor is it his first-ever venture into 18th century Classical opera (his 1996 La Scala debut was in Gluck’s Armide, and during the last decade he’s championed widely Gluck’s Orphée).