Christian Gerhaher – Mozart Arias (2015) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christian Gerhaher – Mozart Arias (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 01:15:51 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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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 original order. These may have been interludes in the live concerts from which these recordings were taken. They were apparently picked by Gerhaher himself, but the first movement of the symphony as the next-to-last track seems to be beginning something and not ending it. The entire concept is murky, but nothing interferes with the sheer attractiveness of Gerhaher’s singing and the way he shifts gears smoothly from the artless Papageno to the licentious Don Giovanni. As a plain old Mozart arias collection, this is just fine.

Tracklist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Don Giovanni K 527
1 Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I, Scene 5, No. 4: Madamina, il catalogo è questo 05:58
2 Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II, Scene 3, No. 16: Deh vieni alla finestra 01:54
3 Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I, Scene 15, No. 11: Fin ch’han dal vino 01:23

Symphony No.36 in C Major ‘Linz’ K 425
4 IV. Presto 07:28

Le nozze di Figaro K 492
5 Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act I, Scene 2, No. 3: Bravo, signor padrone!… Se vuol ballare, signor Contino 03:25

Don Giovanni No. 17 Aria
6 Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II, Scene 4, No. 17: Meta di voi qua vadano 02:43

Così fan tutte K 588
7 Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588, Act I, Scene 11, No. 15: Non siate ritrosi 01:41

Don Giovanni No. 20 Aria
8 Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II, Scene 9, No. 20: A pietà , signori miei 01:42

Symphony No.36 in C Major ‘Linz’ K 425
9 II. Andante con moto 06:04

Die Zauberflöte, KV. 620
10 Die Zauberflöte, KV. 620, Act I, No. 2: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja 02:45
11 Die Zauberflöte, KV. 620, Act II, No. 20: Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich 03:47
12 Die Zauberflöte, KV. 620, Act II, No. 21: Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! 03:37

Symphony No.36 in C Major ‘Linz’ K 425
13 III. Menuetto 02:53

Le nozze di Figaro
14 Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act IV, Scene 8, No. 27: Tutto è disposito… Aprite un po’ quegli occhi 03:56
15 Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act I, Scene 8, No. 10: Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso 03:46
16 Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act III, Scene 4, No. 18: Hai già vinta la causa! 04:46
17 Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588, Act II, Scene 8, No. 26: Donne mie, la fate a tanti 03:06

Symphony No.36 in C Major ‘Linz’ K 425
18 I. Adagio – Allegro spiritoso 09:42

Così fan tutte
19 Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588, Act I, Scene 11, No. 15: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo 05:23

Personnel
Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Freiburger Barockorchester

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