Mozart - Die Zauberflöte - Price, Schreier, Moll, Adam - Davis, 19842CDs - DDD
Pilips 1998
Performed by Dresden Staatskapelle
with Armin Ude, Peter Schreier, Michael Diedrich, Heinz Reeh, Kurt Moll, Theo Adam, Margaret Price, Friedemann Klos, Frank Hoher, Ann Murray, Maria Venuti, Hanna Schwarz, Robert Tear, Marie McLaughlin, Mikael Melbye, Luciana Serra, Reiner Goldberg
Conducted by Sir Colin Davis
The Magic Flute is, for many, the embodiment of musical perfection, as dazzlingly perfect as the esoteric pyramids and symmetries that populate the composer's paean to Masonic philosophy. As so often with Mozart, beneath the sublime lurk darker subtexts--here, themes of sexuality, slavery, and vengeance. Colin Davis conducts the incomparable Staatskapelle Dresden, with Peter Schreier's charming Tamina rescuing Margaret Price's lovely Pamina. --Joshua Cody
