The duet that ends the second act of Mozart’s early opera Mitridate rei di Ponto. Miah Persson and Sophie Bevan as the lovers with Ian Page conducting Classical Opera in new this complete recording – and more complete than any other; they’ve recorded the whole opera as it was first performed on three CDs and added a fourth disc of some of Mozart’s original versions and a couple of completions. While there are few if any moments that give you advanced warning of what’s to come from Mozart, it is astonishing that this confident, dramatically persuasive score came from the pen of an adolescent a month shy of his fifteenth birthday. This performance is as committed and engaging if you could wish for; the hours – almost four if you include those extras—fly by. It’s almost budget price as well with essay texts and translations, and that’s new from Signum Classics.