Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Alois Pernerstorfer, bass; Gertrude Grob-Prandl, soprano; Herbert Handt, tenor; Hilde Konetzni, soprano; Alfred Poell, bass; Hedda Heusser, soprano; Oskar von Czerwenka, bass; Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna
Symphony Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky conducting; Haydn Society, 8 sides LP). This first complete new recording in years of Mozart's masterpiece should be an event of the season; unhappily, it is not. The soloists are not quite up to the mark; altogether it does not bubble and boil like the Glyndebourne Company's old performance (for Victor). The recording of this...
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