Carlo Maria Giulini, Eberhard Wächter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Joan Sutherland - Mozart: Don Giovanni

Warner Classics

£61.20

Format: 4 x LP
ICPN: 0190296729270
Release Date: 22 Oct 2021
Genre: Classical

Don Giovanni’s special amalgam of dark drama and sparkling comedy is captured with startling immediacy by Carlo Maria Giulini. The Viennese baritone Eberhard Wächter faces a particularly formidable pair of noble ladies: Donna Anna in the form of Joan Sutherland (in one of her rare recordings for a label other than Decca) and the Donna Elvira of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

‘This set … put into the hands of those who have not yet unlocked the paradise of Mozartean opera, is worth …what? A year at a foreign university? I don’t believe I exaggerate.’ Gramophone

„Wer nicht auf Böhm schwört, dem kann dies als beste Giovanni-Aufnahme gelten.‟ Hermes Opernlexikon

« La plus humaine, la plus émouvante, la plus complexe, la plus achevée des versions de Don Giovanni. » Diapason

TRACKLIST
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
DON GIOVANNI

Don Giovanni EBERHARD WÄCHTER
Donna Anna JOAN SUTHERLAND
Leporello GIUSEPPE TADDEI
Commendatore GOTTLOB FRICK
Donna Elvira ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF
Don Ottavio LUIGI ALVA
Masetto PIERO CAPPUCCILLI
Zerlina GRAZIELLA SCIUTTI

Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
CARLO MARIA GIULINI

RECORDED: 7–15.X & 23–24.XI.1959, Studio No.1, Abbey Road, London
PRODUCER: Walter Legge
BALANCE ENGINEER: Harold Davidson

REMASTERING: Andrew Walter, at Abbey Road Studios, 2016 - 24 bit – 96 kHz remastering using Retouch™ technology
Total timing: 162 minutes
A Warner Classics release, (p) 1961, Remastered (p) 2016 Parlophone Records Limited. © 2021 Parlophone Records Limited.