The Mozart Album
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Free Music Review: Excellent sound choice of songs and artists
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD has first rate artists, including the glorious Anna Netrebko, songs, and sound. It couldn't get any better.Free Music Review: the mozart album
Hit: 5 Stars
5 wonderful singers,mozart were he alive today would be
justifiably proud of them.
Free Music Review: A Pleasant Surprise
Hit: 4 Stars
This has been one extended party for old Wolfgang. By now it's a wonder we haven't all been Mozarted out. And with that predisposition that's how I sat down to listen to this 2007 offering from Deutsche Grammophon - another Mozart entry into a long line of CD and DVD entry's commemorating Mozart's 251st anniversary party. What got my attention about this CD, however, was the list of singers being offered up with various orchestras, recorded at different times. Netrebko, Garanca on the female side and Quasthoff, Terfel and Pape on the male side. Now, that's a power line-up. The bottom line: I was pleasantly taken back some by the pure sound and high quality of both vocal and instrumental performances, as well as the selections - and the latter point is important. All Mozart, all the time, can wear on the listener, at least it does me. The style and era produced a certain sameness in sound and composition that can almost border on stale. Here, however, that wasn't the case at all. The vocal performances are superb and the selections, while some more well-known and common than others, did sparkle with originality in the manner of delivery. And so, this is a plus all around, making this Mozart entry worthwhile in every way and just as enjoyable, too. Free Music Review: Lush, Netrebko-Dominated Tribute to Mozart's Operas Contains Several Strong Performances
Hit: 4 Stars
Deutsche Grammophon has brought out their big guns on this Mozart anniversary compendium, and the results are invariably lush and insightful. Recorded in four different sessions and backed by different orchestras at each venue, the thirteen tracks here - several recitatives and arias, three duets and one trio - have a thankfully seamless quality in spite of the variability of dramatic interpretations. The lead-off player is soprano Anna Netrebko, who sings on six tracks including a coquettish take on Susanna's recitative and aria, "Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar" from "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)". A passionate singer with a voice just ripening now, she plays both sides of the coin with selections from "Idomeneo" - first in a vengeful rage as Elettra with "Oh smania! Oh furie...D'Oreste, d'Aiace" and later as the sweet Ilia on "Zeffiretti lusinghieri".
Netrebko's Italianate diction and sumptuous voice are well suited for Ilia's aria, but her relative youth works against her as Elettra since she lacks the consistent edge and intimidating persona needed. My favorite of her pieces is actually her Donna Anna in the "Don Giovanni" duet with the exceptional tenor Christoph Strehl on "Fuggi, crudele, fuggi!", in which she feverishly transitions from her character's distraught mental state to a conniving mindset as her lover Don Ottavio pleads with her. Netrebko has another noteworthy albeit brief duet with mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as they poignantly play the lovers Annio and Servilia on "Ah, perdona al primo affetto" from "La clemenza di Tito". In another pants role, Garanca is impressively stentorian in Sesto's forlorn lament, "Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio" from the same opera.
The singer who sounds like he is having the most fun on the disc is baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who covers arias from "Don Giovanni" - first as the devoted servant Leporello in the comic "Madamina, il catalogo ? questo" and then in the title role seducing Netrebko's Zerlina on the seductively yearning duet, "L? ci darem la mano". As Papageno, Quasthoff captures the bird catcher's delicate romanticism in "Der Vogelf?nger bin ich ja" from "Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute)". From the same opera, German bass Ren? Pape lends a haunting, voluminous ripeness to Sarastro's aria, "In dieson heil'gen Hallen", while Hungarian soprano Erika Mikl?sa is a bit too showy for my taste as the Queen of the Night on the vocally ornate "Der H?lle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen".
Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel effectively conveys the Count's flamboyant jealousy on "Ho gi? vint? la causa!...Vedro mentr'io sospiro" from "Le nozze di Figaro", though unfortunately his contribution as Don Alfonso to the final trio, "Soave sia il vento" from "Cosi fan tutte", is strictly by-the-numbers with sopranos Christine Rice and Miah Persson equally lackluster. Regardless, the orchestral accompaniment is expert on all the tracks with the estimable Claudio Abbado conducting on six pieces (including most of Netrebko's solos), Sebastian Weigle on five pieces and Charles Mackerras on the two Terfel tracks. If not a complete success, this is a fine recording which spotlights several of the best singers around today.
Free Music Review: Brilliant!!
Hit: 4 Stars
Four stars for me is a top rated disc, make no mistake-there are maybe 10 five star albums I''ve heard in my life. The performances are both accurate and inspired and, in this rare instance, I enjoy the blend of music from different Mozart pieces. Newcomer (well, sort of) Elina Garanca is outstanding and, I believe, will likely be the one of this crop we are still talking about in 10 years
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