A favorite Mozart performance from Krunoslav

Sometimes–to negotiate the High Gee!s, as it were–you just need to call in Edda Moser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__eGW67Ej4

This substitution aria he wrote for Aloysia Weber (his future wife’s sister and the first Mme. Herz) to unleash in a Munich production of Gluck‘s Alceste is one of those times. I have played this selection to Moser newbies who were rabid lifetime fans by the time it was over.

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