Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Opera arranged for Wind Ensemble by Josef Triebensee cover

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Opera arranged for Wind Ensemble by Josef Triebensee

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Breezy tempos, transparent textures, all-star singing, and strong attention to detail. It isn’t giving too much away to say that there is a significant stabbing in the first five minutes of Don Giovanni, and Nézet-Séguin creates an extraordinary “bleeding” effect on a chord where other conductors simply drop a loud exclamation point. Where other conductors who make his sorts of un-Romantic choices sacrifice drama and excitement, his speedy, unsentimental approach just ratchets up the intensity in the opera’s famous closing scene. A complete modern Mozart opera performance.

Sean Wood

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