Martin Y Soler: Una Cosa Rara
) | Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog: 902010 Format: CD Moonwinds Conducted by Joan Enric LlunaVicente Martín y Soler, nicknamed ‘the Valencian Mozart’, was as famous in his own day as his Austrian contemporary. The ‘very rare thing’ depicted in his biggest success, the opera Una cosa rara, is the combination of beauty and honesty, in the person of a charming peasant girl! The work was arranged for wind ensemble by Johann Nepomuk Wendt, and Mozart quoted from it in Don Giovanni. This programme is completed by premiere recordings of three divertimenti.  Price: $22.98 |