Presto Disc of the Week
3rd November 2017

Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2017

Sophie Karthauser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone), Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs

"Dutron uses Süssmayr’s original material as a jumping-off point for his own inspiration rather than discarding it altogether...Many of the hallmarks which made Jacobs’s Mozart opera series so vital (minus, of course, the occasionally hyperactive continuo-playing which polarised opinion there!) are in evidence...and the four soloists (all alumni of the opera recordings) blend seamlessly with one another." - Presto Classical 3rd November 2017