So Very Lazy
With an hour to fill before the opera broadcast today (Così fan tutte), I could have been creative. I had pulled out some English language canons and secular cantatas by Haydn. But in the end I lazied-out, and put on Mozart’s C Minor Mass, K. 427 (the Fricsay recording), with a running time of 57:03.
On the plus side, it was a superior choice on musical and performance grounds. Maria Stader was truly outstanding, and its sad to think that her style of singing no longer exists. That is the case, unfortunately, with many fine singers of the golden age. Voice students are so protective now of their instruments, and their teachers direct them into such a lightweight style of performance. Every young singer does Mozart these days, but who is doing Leoncavallo, Verdi, Giordano?
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