Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 598 Mb | Total time: 131:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Telarc | # CD-80544 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 598 Mb | Total time: 131:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Telarc | # CD-80544 | Recorded: 1999
Mackerras’s series of opera recordings, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has a character very much its own, deriving from his natural feeling for the dramatic pacing of Mozart’s music and the expressive and allusive nature of its textures, as well as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s sensitivity and responsiveness to him. These are not period-instrument performances (except in that natural horns and trumpets are used, to good effect), but Mackerras’s manner of articulation, and the lightness of the phrasing he draws from his strings, makes it, to my mind, a lot closer to a true period style than some of the performances that make a feature of period instruments and then use them to modern ends (I am thinking less here of British conductors than some from Europe).