"Astronautica...the 3 women I heard were inspired by travel to the unknown...and let's remember that 27 January is also the birthday of the remarkable Mozart...! another explorer of time, space, and harmony!" Inspired by this comment from our friend Barbaralee Diamonstein-Speilvogel, today's post is a Mozart quintet from The Magic Flute. Just after 4 minutes into this 6-minute excerpt, Mozart gives us one of his astonishingly simple shifts to sublime beauty, sung by the Three Ladies, a glorious women's trio that prefigures our Astronautica trio by several centuries!

– Liz Norman