Mozart: The Operas

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A 15-CD set of six complete operas (first recordings of Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte)(includes a bonus CD of Solti as pianist in Mozart recordings spanning his career)+ 100-page bookletTracklistingCD 1-3Così fan tutte(Recorded London, July 1973 & February 1974)Fiordiligi Pilar LorengarDorabella Teresa BerganzaGuglielmo Tom KrauseFerrando Ryland DaviesDespina Jane BerbiéDon Alfonso Gabriel BacquierChorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent GardenLondon Philharmonic OrchestraCD 4-6Don Giovanni(Recorded London, October & November 1978)Don Giovanni Bernd WeiklIl Commendatore Kurt MollDonna Anna Margaret Price Don Ottavio Stuart BurrowsDonna Elvira Sylvia SassLeporello Gabriel BacquierZerlina Lucia PoppMasetto Alfred SramekLondon Opera ChorusLondon Philharmonic OrchestraCD 7-8Die Entführung aus dem Serail(Recorded Vienna, November 1984 & December 1985)Konstanze Edita GruberovaBlonde Kathleen BattleBelmonte Gösta WinberghPedrillo Heinz ZednikOsmin Martti TalvelaSelim Will QuadfliegKonzertvereinigung Wiener StaatsopernchorWiener PhilharmonikerCD 9-11Le nozze di Figaro(recorded London, May-June 1981) Count Almaviva Thomas AllenCountess Almaviva Kiri Te KanawaSusanna Lucia PoppFigaro Samuel RameyCherubino Frederica von StadeMarcellina Jane BerbiéDoctor Bartolo Kurt MollDon Basilio Robert TearDon Curzio Philip LangridgeBarbarina Yvonne KennyAntonio Giorgio TadeoTwo girls Lynda Russell Anne MasonLondon Opera ChorusContinuo: Jeffrey TateLondon Philharmonic OrchestraCD 12-14Die Zauberflöte(Recorded Vienna, September-October 1969)Sarastro Martti TalvelaTamino Stuart BurrowsSprecher Dietrich Fischer-DieskauErster Priester Kurt QuiluzZweiter Priester Herbert LacknerDritter Priester Wolfgang ZimmerKönigin der Nacht Christina DeutekomPamina Pilar LorengarErste Dame Hanneke van BorkZweite Dame Yvonne MintonDritte Dame Hetty PlümacherPapageno Hermann PreyPapagena Renate HolmMonostatos Gerhard StolzeErster geharnischter Mann René KolloZweiter geharnischter Mann Hans SotinDie drei Knaben Wieber SängerknabenWiener StaatsopernchorWiener PhilharmonikerCD 15 - bonus CD - Solti as pianist in MozartViolin Sonata No.32 in B flat major, K454with Georg Kulenkampf (recorded in 1948)Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K478with Members of the Melos Quartet (recorded in 1984)Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466with the English Chamber Orchestra (recorded in 1989)