Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72679 in Music
• Released on: 2009-08-04
• Number of discs: 35
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: 2.30 pounds

Album Description
LIMITED EDITION BOX SET INCLUDING OVER 44 CDS! A unique collection of the COMPLETE operatic works of Mozart! This set ranges from the fascinating works of his teenage years to the profound late masterpieces. Operas known and loved all over the world such as Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte as well as rare discoveries including L'oca del Cairo and Die garterin aus liebe. These award-winning recordings feature a galaxy of great Mozart singers such as Kiri te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Janet Baker, Mirella Freni, Edita Gruberova, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Hermann Prey, Thomas Allen and many more.

Contains: Le Nozze Di Figaro Wixell * Norman * Freni Don Giovanni Wixell * Arroyo * Te Kanawa * Burrows Così Fan Tutte Caballé * Baker * Gedda * Ganzarolli La Clemenza Di Tito Burrows * Baker * Popp * von Stade Die Zauberflöte Price * Schreier * Moll * Serra Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail Eda-Pierre * Burrows * Lloyd Idomeneo, Re Di Creta Araiza * Hendricks * Alexander * Hollweg La Finta Semplice Hendricks * Murray * Blochwitz * Schmidt Mitridate, Re Di Ponto Hollweg * Auger * Gruberova * Cotrubas Ascanio In Alba Baltsa * Mathis * Schreier * Auger Il Sogno Di Scipione Schreier * Popp * Gruberova Lucio Silla Schreier * Varady * Auger * Mathis La Finta Giardiniera Moser * Fassbender * Conwell Il Re Pastore Hadley * McNair * Ahnsjo L'oca Del Cairo Fischer-Dieskau * Schreier * Wiens Lo Sposo Deluso Palmer * Rolfe Johnson * Tear * Cotrubas Bastien Und Bastienne Orieschnig * Nigl * Busch Die Garterin Aus Liebe Donath * Hellweg * Norman Zaide Mathis * Schreier * Wixell Der Schauspieldirektor Cotrubas * Welting * Rolfe Johnson

Customer Reviews

By no means 'Complete' as claimed to be.
The most illustrious recording in this incomplete set is Lucio Silla, being the complete version of Mozart's work. Similarly, the Cosi fan tutte includes complete arias not commonly available in other recordings.
However Mozart's first opera (in Latin) Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38 is missing.
The notes say that they include the complete Italian operas and German singspiels. So as of right, the Latin opera Apollo et Hyacinthus was missing, I suppose.
Caveat emptor.

How much is too much?
These dirt cheap box sets continue to be released at an alarming rate and provide incredible bargains but are not necessarily essential purchases.

This set contains recordings that were all part of the Phillips Complete Mozart Edition (which was about the price of a small car I seem to remember) and they have appeared in several guises since. The backbone of the set is Davis' wonderful recordings of the mature operas which have stood the test of time excedingly well. The set is worth purchasing for these operas alone and will complement any recordings you already own. The list of tremendous singers from the 70's and 80's gives the set another bonus of being a fascinating record of Mozart singing during this period (things are very different now are they not?).

In that sense you can't go wrong but you need to consider that the early operas, while perhaps interesting as a demonstration of his developmentt as a dramatic composer, are not music you will be turning to frequently for enjoyment. Add this the problem that the set will not contain a printed libretto or essays to help you follow these immature works so they will probably sit in their cardborad sleeves for most of their life.

If that doesn't bother you you certainly won't regret gaining so many fine recordings at such a reasonable price.

Only fools will miss this set!
Great, great value!
Herr Mozart would be stirred in his grave.
Decca is doing a great service to Herr Mozart for compiling a sterling set of his complete operas at such good price.
The rarities also shined - with a Scipione sung by Schreier backed up by Thomas Moser, Popp, Gruberova and Baltsa! L'Oca Del Cairo with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Schreier!
With big Mozartians like Hager and Colin Davis conducting!
A Mirella Freni Susanna and Norman Countess in Le Nozze!
Caballe in Cosi Fan Tutte as Fiordiliji!
Fabulous casting aplenty, even if you, like myself, owned individual operas already, this 'complete' set would grace your musical library splendidly as would nothing else!