I don’t know if it can get any better than this. Transport yourself as you listen to Gerald Finley’s rich baritone sound caress one of Mozart’s most beautiful pieces from Don Giovanni.
Does that sound like the Mozart you know? It sure didn’t to me the first time I heard it, and that’s the genius of Mozart – so many styles perfected in one little man.
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