The Orchestra of Classical Opera, playing on period instruments about a semitone below today’s pitch, are quite wonderful...The singers, most of them new to me, are just as fine. Stuart Jackson manages the melismas and wide leaps of his two arias with confidence and elegance...Ian Page presides over a charming performance, with well-paced recitatives and appropriate, sometimes extravagant decoration. This is minor Mozart, done supremely well.
Please login to post a review
Reviews
“… The fine recorded sound – rich, detailed, and immediate – offers a superb aural canvas for this fine performance… Recommended.”
Ken Meltzer – Fanfare – May/June 2018
“… All well performed by this English outfit and worth the investment for the ardent Mozartian.” ***½
Steve Moffatt – Limelight magazine.com.au – 15 May 2018
ICMA Opera Category Nominee
2018 International Classical Music Awards
**** (Excellent Album)
Pierre Flinois - Classica magazine (France) - February 2018
“... his [Page] line-up of some of the finest young singers working within this repertoire brings verve and enthusiastic presence ... In so doing, they bring a new dimension to a comparatively little-known work that should win it fresh admirers (there are riches aplenty amidst the operas Mozart wrote before Idomeneo and The Abduction from the Seraglio) and renew the appreciation of those already acquainted with it.” ****
Curtis Rogers – ClassicalSource.com – January 2018
**** Excellent Album
Giuseppe Rossi - Musica magazine (Italy) - December 2017-January 2018
Opera Choice
Performance **** Recording ****
"All the arias offer moments of genuine Mozart dramatic spark"
Max Loppert - BBC Music magazine - December 2017
Editor's Choice - Opera Section
“The Orchestra of Classical Opera, playing on period instruments about a semitone below today’s pitch, are quite wonderful...The singers, most of them new to me, are just as fine. Stuart Jackson manages the melismas and wide leaps of his two arias with confidence and elegance...Ian Page presides over a charming performance, with well-paced recitatives and appropriate, sometimes extravagant decoration. This is minor Mozart, done supremely well.”
Richard Lawrence - Gramophone magazine - October 2017
Media Downloads
Whenever possible we provide a high resolution CD cover image and a PDF version of the CD booklet for you to download and keep