Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera – review

Karthauser/Ovenden/Penda/Chappuis/Freiburgh Baroque O/Jacobs(Harmonia Mundi, three CDs)For each new recording in his cycle of Mozart's operas, René Jacobs conjures something unexpected, whether it's in the casting, interpretation or, as this time with the early opera buffa La Finta Giardiniera, in the musical edition he uses. The work received just three performances when it was premiered in Munich in 1775; the only revivals during the rest of Mozart's life were as a Singspiel in German transla...

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