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Salzburg Mozartwoche (6) - Peretyatko/Danish CO/Fischer: Mozart and Salieri, 30 January 2024
[…] Giovanni. Opening very much in medias res, giving the accompagnato permitted the performers to prepare us for Donna Anna’s aria, rather than experience it as a pretty, even generically ‘dramatic’ thing-in-itself. It certainly emerged as consequent, treated not only to pinpoint, expressive coloratura and a luxuriant voice, but equal excellence from the orchestra as a whole, gorgeous horns included. ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’ – ‘Non temer, amato bene’ was written by Mozart for Nancy Storace, creator of roles for both Mozart (Susanna) and Salieri. Here again, we experience the most vivid of communication through words and music. Fischer’s decision to play Mozart’s piano part too was unfortunate. I have little doubt that he could play or conduct the piece perfectly well; doing both proved, alas, a mistake, and renewed one’s admiration for those pianist-conductors able to do so. Strongly connected to Idomeneo, the aria’s words (though not its recitative’s) […]
2022-10-19 04:00:00
Jet Set - Classical Glitterati (Simon Murphy, New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra)
Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832)Viola Concerto in E-Flat majorCarl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)Symphony in C major, Op. 14 No. 1, WKO 25Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 14 No. 2, WKO 26Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 - Deh vieni, non tardarJohann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) Symphony in G majorStephen Storace (1762-1796)The Siege of Belgrade - Domestic Peace, my Soul's DesireGiovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) [Flac & Scans]L'amor contrastato ''La molinara'' - Nel cor piu non mi sentoSimon Murphy, New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra(Period Instruments)Pentatone PTC 5186 787 (2019)
2022-03-13 17:39:59
Mozart’s Aria Ch’io mi scordi di te” was composed for the unusual combination of solo voice, piano obbligato and orchestra. Mozart wrote it on December 26, 1786, intending to perform the piano part himself with the young English soprano, Nancy Storace. Months earlier, she had sung the role of Susanna in the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, and there has long been speculation that Mozart was in love with her. Ms. Storace and Mozart performed this together early in 1787, shortly before her departure from Vienna. It is his farewell to her. Personally I don’t have much interest in
2021-08-08 07:00:15
Wigglesworth, Mozart and Ravel: the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' in a lovely journey around Mozart's concert aria
Nancy Storace, for whom Mozart wrote Ch'io mi scordi di teby Pietro Bettelini from 1788, Wigglesworth, Mozart, Ravel; Sophie Bevan, Ryan Wigglesworth, Academy of St Martin's in the Fields; Church of St Martin in the Fields Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 August 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) An intriguing and engaging programme with Ryan Wigglesworth as pianist, conductor and composer, joined by Sophie Bevan for music centred round Mozart's great concert aria, Chi'io mi scordi di teFor their final concert of their current season at the Church of St Martin in the Fields on 6 August 2021, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) was joined by soprano Sophie Bevan and conductor/pianist/composer Ryan Wigglesworth which included the Notturno from Wigglesworth's Piano Concerto, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, and Mozart's Chi'io mi scordi di te, with Wigglesworth directing from […]
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