Ridente la calma
Posted in Classical on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
My favourite Mozart song, sung at a concert I went to at Wigmore Hall, London, on 3 October 1995. The singer is Rose Mannion, with Julius Drake at the piano. She sings it beautifully. There’s a period of catarrhal coughing from the audience beforehand, which mercifully shuts up when Rose starts to sing.
‘Smiling, contentment rests upon my soul……you have come bound in sweet chains to my heart’
