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Lively, well played....and cheap!

03/11/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Reason # 249 why naxos rules the world. Its hard to beat this: A long disc with a darn near complete catalogue of major Mozart overtures, played extremely well and with considerable verve."

I Love This CD!

10/06/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a newcomer to classical music, I've already discovered that my favorite composer is Mozart. I wanted to try a CD of his overtures because overtures are always exciting. I wasn't disappointed. This has become one of my favorite classical CD's. The musicians are excellent and it is a really good value."

Full of Joie-de-vivre

Leslie Richford | Selsingen, Lower Saxony | 12/13/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This 1988 Naxos recording is one of a Mozart series that Barry Wordsworth made with the Capella Istropolitana. And as with the symphonies, these overtures have a lot going for them. The playing is fresh and full of joie-de-vivre, the sound is (despite the echoey Concert Hall in Bratislava, Slovakia) perfectly acceptable, and the notes are helpful. Particularly praiseworthy of course is the decision to record Mozart's early overtures and to put them in chronological order, thus giving a context to the better-known opera introductions, which are here recorded successfully and with great gusto. Perhaps this is not quite up to the standard of some of the leading period instrument ensembles (e. g. Tafelmusik on Sony), but for a budget CD it is a remarkably good effort."