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Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Artist(s):
Richard Croft
Bernarda Fink

Conductor:
Rene Jacobs

Background: If you're one of those people who are finding René Jacobs' Mozart opera series for harmonia mundi one of the recorded marvels of our time, then another treat is on the way. Idomeneo is an opera which seethes with tension and everyone subscribed to the roller-coaster of tension and release and inevitably more tension.

One of the joys of Jacobs' Mozart, apart from the pungent and vibrant orchestral work (the Freiburger Barokorchester), the astounding choral singing (the RIAS Kammerchor) and the viscerally immediate and gloriously mobile recitatives, is the use of what has fast become a Jacobs company of singers. Step forward Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito and Elvira in Don Giovanni, and Elettra here), Sunhae Im (Servilia and Zerlina to date and here an Illia of mettle but also of enchanting allure: no surprise that Idamante was enraptured) and Bernarda Fink (Sesto in Clemenza and here a heroic and focused Idamante).

"Jacobs is a terrific guide in Mozart - drawing playing of great flare from his Freiburg band… Gardiner's Gramophone Award-winning Archiv set has held sway in Idomeneo for 17 years, I think it's about to get a serious run for its money." James Jolly, Gramophone, February 2009.

CATALOGUE NR: HMC90203638
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 26.50
RELEASE DATE: 25-May-2009

COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
TITLE: Idomeneo - complete
TRACKS: includes bonus DVD.
ORCHESTRA: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Rene Jacobs
ARTISTS: Richard Croft   Bernarda Fink   Sunhae Im   Alexandrina Pendachanska

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 / Region Code: 0 / Recorded: Dec-2008 in Salle Pleyel Paris & Immanuelskirche Wuppertal Germany - Jul-2009 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2009 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'I love the conductor's flair for drama, his imagination in the continuos and, in most cases, his casting instincts - the standout here being Alexandrina Pendatchanska's Elettra.'

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