Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)
Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel: Mozart, Gluck, Traetta, Hasse, J.C.Bach (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902172 | Recorded: 2013
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902172 | Recorded: 2013
The contents of this album reflect the operatic music Mozart would have known as a teenager. One of the composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck, is known as a founder of the Classical style in opera; others, including Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, and Tommaso Traetta, are known mostly to specialists, at least in the operatic field. Listeners who have heard the spectacular arias of the late Baroque popularized by Renée Fleming and others will find the pieces here less virtuosic but more dramatically satisfying, as if the composers and librettists had engaged themselves anew with the ancient Greek stories they were retelling. One might object that annotator Denis Morrier gives short shift to the most important of the librettists, Pietro Metastasio, whose writings remained popular up to Beethoven's time. But the music itself here brings some real treasures: hear the compelling dialogue between Orestes and a chorus of Furies in Traetta's Ifigenia en Tauride (track 9). In general the works by Traetta, who spent part of his career in musically remote St. Petersburg, are the biggest find here, but the entire program is intelligently assembled. You can really hear the young Mozart assimilating this genre and reaching maturity there earlier than in any of his other works, first in Mitridate, rè di Ponto (1770), and then even more so in the neglected Ascanio in Alba of the following year. It's a bit odd to hear conductor René Jacobs and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin use a fortepiano in one of the Mozart recitatives, which would have been unlikely in 1771, but the performers get the excitement of the music. The talents of American countertenor Bejun Mehta are very effectively deployed here; he won't knock you out with scales and trills, but he's dramatically effective and has a beautiful limpid tone in the slower and warmer arias. Highly recommended for anyone curious about the sources of Mozart's style or about the investigations that are slowly remaking the performance world of the 18th century in general.–James Manheim
Performer:
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
RIAS Kammerchor (2, 9)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
René Jacobs, conductor
Tracklist:
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
01. Orfeo ed Euridice - Aria: Che puro ciel!
02. Orfeo ed Euridice - Coro: Vieni a’ regni del riposo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
03. Ascanio in Alba - Recitativo: Perché tacer degg’io?
04. Ascanio in Alba - Aria: Cara, lontano ancora
Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779)
05. Antigona - Aria: Ah, se lo vedi piangere
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
06. Il trionfo di Clelia - Aria: Dei di Roma, ah perdonate!
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
07. Artaserse - Recitativo accompagnato: No, che non ha la sorte
08. Artaserse - Aria: Vo solcando un mar crudele
Tommaso Traetta
09. Ifigenia in Tauride - Dormi Oreste!
Christoph Willibald Gluck
10. Ezio - Aria: Pensa a serbarmi, o cara
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11. Ascanio in Alba - Aria: Ah di sì nobil alma
Tommaso Traetta
12. Antigona - Aria: Ah, sì, da te dipende
Christoph Willibald Gluck
13. Ezio - Aria: Se il fulmine sospendi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
14. Mitridate - Recitativo accompagnato: Vadasi…
15. Mitridate - Aria: Già dagli occhi il velo è tolto
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Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Che Puro Ciel (2013)
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