The golden age for recordings of Mozart's operas was the '50s and '60s. Even Così fan tutte, the last and least popular of his collaborations with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, received two superlative sets: Karajan and the Philharmonia's stylish 1954 EMI recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman, Rolando Panerai, Léopold Simoneau, Sesto Bruscantini, and Lisa Otto and Karl Böhm and the Philharmonia's classic 1962 EMI recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Alfredo Kraus, Giuseppe Taddei, Walter Berry, ...
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The golden age for recordings of Mozart's operas was the '50s and '60s. Even Così fan tutte, the last and least popular of his collaborations with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, received two superlative sets: Karajan and the Philharmonia's stylish 1954 EMI recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman, Rolando Panerai, Léopold Simoneau, Sesto Bruscantini, and Lisa Otto and Karl Böhm and the Philharmonia's classic 1962 EMI recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Alfredo Kraus, Giuseppe Taddei, Walter Berry, and Hanny Steffek.The same year as EMI's Böhm/Philharmonia recording, Deutsche Grammophon released this set with Eugen Jochum leading the Berliner Philharmoniker and the RIAS-Kammerchor with Irmgard Seefried, Nan Merriman, Hermann Prey, Ernst Haefliger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Erika Köth. Unfortunately, while there are many, many fine things about this performance -- Seefried's Fiorgiligi is achingly beautiful, Prey's Guglielmo is believably naïve, the Berlin Philharmonic is...
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