Mozart - La clemenza di Tito / Padmore, Pendatchanska, Fink, Chappuis, Im, Foresti, RIAS, Freiburg, Jacobs

Mozart - La clemenza di Tito / Padmore, Pendatchanska, Fink, Chappuis, Im, Foresti, RIAS, Freiburg, Jacobs

Mozart - La clemenza di Tito / Padmore, Pendatchanska, Fink, Chappuis, Im, Foresti, RIAS, Freiburg, Jacobs
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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Rene Jacobs
Orchestra: Freiburger Barockorchester
Performer: Mark Padmore
Performer: Alexandrina Pendatchanska
Performer: Bernarda Fink
Performer: Marie-Claude Chappuis
Performer: Sunhae Im
Performer: Sergio Foresti
Performer: RIAS Kammerchor
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi (France)
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Overture
  2. Ma che? sempre l'istesso (Recitativo) Vitellia, Sesto
  3. Come ti iace imponi (duet) Sesto, Vitellia
  4. Amico, il passo affretta (recitativo) Annio, Vitellia,
  5. Deh se piacer mi vuoi (aria) Vitellia
  6. Amico, ecco il momento (recitativo) Sesto, Annio
  7. Deh prendi un colce amplesso (duet) Annio, Sesto
  8. March
  9. Serbate, oh Dei custodi (chorus)
  10. Te della patria il Padre (recitativo) Publio, Annio, Tito
  11. March
  12. Adesso, oh Sesto (recitativo) Publio, Annio, Tito
  13. Del piu sublime solio (aria) Tito
  14. Non ci pentiam (recitativo) Annio, Servilia
  15. Ah perdona il primo affetto (duet) Annio, Servilia
  16. Ch mi rechi in quel foglio? (recitativo) Tito, Publio Di Tito al ple . . . (recitativo) Servilia, Tito
  17. Ah, se fosse intorno al trono (aria) Tito
  18. Felice me! (recitativo) Servilia, Vitellia
  19. Parto, ma tu ben mio (aria) Sesto
  20. Vedrai, Tito, vedrai, che alfin si vile (recitativo) Vitellia, Pulio, Annio
  21. Vengo . . .aspettate . . . Sesto! (trio) Vitellia, Publio, Annio
  22. Oh Dei, che smania e questa (recitativo) Sesto
  23. Deh, conservate, oh Dei (quintet with chorus)
Music CD 2
  1. Sesto, come tu credi (recitativo) Annio, Sesto
  2. Torna di Tito a lato (aria) Annio
  3. Partir deggio, o restar? (recitativo) Sesto, Vitellia
  4. Se al volto mai ti senti (trio) Sesto, Vitellia, Publio
  5. Ah grazie si rendano (chorus)
  6. Gia de' pubblici giuochi (recitativo) Publio, Tito
  7. Tardi s'avvede (aria) Publio
  8. No, cosi scellerato (recitativo) Tito, Annio
  9. Tu fosti tradito (aria) Annio
  10. Che orror! che tradimento ! (recitativo) Tito Ma, Publio, ancora Sesto non viene? (Publio, Tito)
  11. Quello di Tito e il volto! (trio) Sesto, Tito, Publio
  12. Eppur mi fa pieta (recitativo) Tito, Sesto
  13. Deh per questo istante solo (rondo) Sesto
  14. Ove s'intese mai piu contumace (recitativo) Tito Publio (recitativo) Tito, Publio
  15. Se all'impero, amici Dei (aria) Tito
  16. Publio, ascolta! (recitativo) Vitellia, Publio
  17. S'altro che lacrime (aria) Sevilia
  18. Ecco il punto, oh Vitellia (recitativo) Vitellia
  19. Non piu di fiori (rondo) Vitellia
  20. Che del ciel, che degli Dei (chorus)
  21. Pria che principio a' lieti (recitativo) Tito, Annio, Servilia
  22. Ma che giorno e mai questo ? (recitativo) Tito
  23. Tu, e ver, m'assolvi, Augusto (sextette with chorus)

Free Music Notes for Mozart - La clemenza di Tito / Padmore, Pendatchanska, Fink, Chappuis, Im, Foresti, RIAS, Freiburg, Jacobs

Free Music Review: Titus Revitalized
Hit: 5 Stars

For too long Mozart's last opera "Titus" has been shrugged off as an "inferior effort" to his other late operas (Figaro, Don Giovanni, etc). Recall in the film Amadeus when Tom Hulce says, "Why must we go on forever, writing about gods and heroes and old dead legends?... I'm fanned to the teeth with all these elevated things!" His character, of course, was speaking of the already outdated opera seria, a genre to which "Titus" belongs.

Nonetheless, "Titus" was very popular after it's premiere (not right away), and it even shared popularity with "Don Giovanni." Since then, it's popularity has dwindled, due to its "odd man out" stature among Mozart's late great comic operas.

Leave it to Rene Jacobs, however, to bring it back to life- back to the popularity it deserves. 2006, the 250th year after Mozart's birth has seen a deluge of new recordings of this opera (e.g. Mackerras.) This, however, is considered by many to outshine them all. The reason for this is the theatricality of it. In all of Rene Jacobs' Mozart recording, there is never a dull moment, and that especially goes for the recitatives (you know, the parts you always skip over when listening to opera on disc.) Thank's to Jacobs' reviving the practice of a highly improvised continuo line, the recitatives become just as exciting as any ensemble or aria. In, say, the Mackerras recording, you may find yourself a bit bored. In Mackerras' recording his singers sing, and that's it. With Jacobs, his singers "perform."

Another reason Jacobs has a leg up on Mackerras is his tempi. Jacob's tempi changes, especially in the Act I finale add to the urgency of the plot: opera is, after all, all theater in the end. One small quibble though, on two occasions it seems Jacobs goes overboard: such as in the Act II trio with Publius, Sextus, and Titus ("Avvicinati", for some reason, is sped up), and also curiously sped up is certain sections of the Finale (the chorus "Che Del Ciel" and the last section)... so much that these sections lose their grandeur. These quibbles are so minor though, considering how great this recording is overall, and a huge contributing factor to that, of course, is the soloists.

Alexandrina Pendatchanska is a real gem as Vitellia. You may not be able to see her, but you can sense the urgency in her voice. Hear her effectively go from complete Vesuvian madness and anger, to a penitent confessor. She is the real "blood-and-guts" power hungry, bloodthirsy Prima Donna that Vitellia is supposed to be. And without exaggeration, she will be a hard one to beat. She far outshines any other Vitellia on record (coming close, my second pick would be Dorothea Roschmann.) Truly, Pendatchanska reminds me of a Cecilia Bartoli of sorts.

The ensemble plays crisp and precise and major credit goes to the continuo section for making the recitatives exciting again.

This justly multiple-Grammy Nominated release is strongly recommended. (And keep an eye out for Harmonia Mundi-Rene Jacob's recording of Don Giovanni supposedly in the works.)

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