Mozart: Arias (2015)
performed by
Avi Avital (mandolin), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Kristian Bezuidenhout (steel string), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Baritone Christian Gerhaher has a rare combination of warm, rounded, almost Fischer-Dieskau-esque tone and dramatic sense, and he's rapidly gaining admirers. An album of Mozart arias would seem just the thing for him, and the straightforward title of this release seems to promise just that. As it happens, things are a little more complicated. You get notes entitled "The Transformations of Eros in Mozart's Final Operas" (that sounds even more fearsome in German), which seems to mean that the program explores different kinds ...
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Baritone Christian Gerhaher has a rare combination of warm, rounded, almost Fischer-Dieskau-esque tone and dramatic sense, and he's rapidly gaining admirers. An album of Mozart arias would seem just the thing for him, and the straightforward title of this release seems to promise just that. As it happens, things are a little more complicated. You get notes entitled "The Transformations of Eros in Mozart's Final Operas" (that sounds even more fearsome in German), which seems to mean that the program explores different kinds of Mozartian male romantic leads, from Don Giovanni (both the Don himself and Leporello) to Figaro (the Count also gets his say) to Guglielmo in Così fan tutte to Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. Arias from each opera are grouped, and between them are single arias that perhaps show the way one concept of the Mozart-era lover bled into another. On top of this, the four movements of Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 ("Linz"), are interspersed around the program, not in their...
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- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: No. 4 Aria: Madamina, il catalogo è questo
- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: No. 16 Canzonetta: Deh, vieni alla finestra
- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: No. 11 Aria: Fin ch'han dal vino
- Symphony No. 36 in C major ("Linz"), K. 425: IV. Presto
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Recitativo & No. 3 Cavatina: Bravo, signor padrone!...Se vuol ballare, signor contino
- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: No. 17 Aria: Metà di voi qua vadano
- Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: No. 15 Aria: Non siate ritrosi
- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: No. 20 Aria: Ah, pietà signori miei
- Symphony No. 36 in C major ("Linz"), K. 425: II. Andante
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620: No. 2 Aria: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620: No. 20 Aria: Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620: No. 21 Finale. Allegro: Papagena! Papagena!
- Symphony No. 36 in C major ("Linz"), K. 425: III. Menuetto - Trio
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: No. 27 Recitativo ed Aria: Tutto è disposto...Aprite un po' quegli occhi
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: No. 10 Aria: Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: No. 18 Recitativo ed Aria: Hai già vinta la causa!... Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro
- Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: No. 26 Aria: Donne mie, la fate a tanti
- Symphony No. 36 in C major ("Linz"), K. 425: I. Adagio - Allegro spiritoso
- Così fan tutte, opera, K. 588: No. 15a Aria: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo
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