CD Pick of 1996 Michael Oliver presents the first of five programmes featuring some of the outstanding operatic performances issued this year, with comments from Hugh Canning and Andrew Clements.
Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte
Simon Rattle conducted Mozart and Da Ponte 's last operatic collaboration with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the 1991 Glyndebourne Festival. Last year conductor and orchestra came together again for a series of concert performances, including two at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, where this recording was made.
Choir of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), John Constable
(fortepiano), conductor Simon Rattle Discs