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Mozart - The Complete Operas [Box Set 44CDs] (2009) FLAC
The advertisement blurb for this issue postulates it as a unique collection of the complete operatic works of Mozart, from the fascinating teenage works to the profound late masterpieces. As such it contains not only the great and famous operatic works, known and loved by every opera buff, but also his early operas and orchestration of fragments including L'oca del Cairo and Die garterin aus liebe.
Many of the early, lesser-known works included in this collection were recorded by DG, often in association with German radio stations. Other recordings, particularly of the later works, are drawn from the Philips catalogue that owes so much to the late Erik Smith, sometime producer for that label and Decca, and later head of Artists and Repertoire at Philips. As an accomplished musician, he was responsible for the orchestration of the fragments (CD 22) as explained in his biography Mostly Mozart (Porcellini Publications, 2005). He also sought to cast the original Philips label recordings of Mozart’s later works, here revived in Part 2, with the most distinguished international singers of the day, as is evidenced by those listed for each of the works concerned. Sometimes, when these singers were not Mozart specialists, this is a mixed blessing.
Although deriving from the Philips label’s The Complete Works of Mozart, issued in 1991, an issue owing much to Erik Smith, this collection appears on the Decca label which, together with DG is now part of the Universal stable. The collection is presented in two distinct parts, each being related to notes by a distinguished scholar. The eminent Mozart scholar Stanley Sadie is the author of the notes for the first part which deals with those operas written to Italian libretti and is titled the Italian Operas (CDs 1-33). The remaining works were written to German libretti; the liner-notes author in respect of these German operas is Richard Wigmore (CDs 34 to 44). Rather than commenting on each opera in this manner, I have decided to treat them in the order of composition, or, in the case of his last two operas, of their staging. In this way I can more easily incorporate linking comments on the influence of his father and librettists as well as the relevant social and musical milieu surrounding the composition.
Note: For ease of reference I have divided the review into two parts. This introduction and the early operas are dealt with in Part 1 and the mature work in Part 2. The cast for each, in sequence of composition or staging, is given at the end of the review. No recording dates or venues are provided with this collection.
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The advertisement blurb for this issue postulates it as a unique collection of the complete operatic works of Mozart, from the fascinating teenage works to the profound late masterpieces. As such it contains not only the great and famous operatic works, known and loved by every opera buff, but also his early operas and orchestration of fragments including L'oca del Cairo and Die garterin aus liebe.
Many of the early, lesser-known works included in this collection were recorded by DG, often in association with German radio stations. Other recordings, particularly of the later works, are drawn from the Philips catalogue that owes so much to the late Erik Smith, sometime producer for that label and Decca, and later head of Artists and Repertoire at Philips. As an accomplished musician, he was responsible for the orchestration of the fragments (CD 22) as explained in his biography Mostly Mozart (Porcellini Publications, 2005). He also sought to cast the original Philips label recordings of Mozart’s later works, here revived in Part 2, with the most distinguished international singers of the day, as is evidenced by those listed for each of the works concerned. Sometimes, when these singers were not Mozart specialists, this is a mixed blessing.
Although deriving from the Philips label’s The Complete Works of Mozart, issued in 1991, an issue owing much to Erik Smith, this collection appears on the Decca label which, together with DG is now part of the Universal stable. The collection is presented in two distinct parts, each being related to notes by a distinguished scholar. The eminent Mozart scholar Stanley Sadie is the author of the notes for the first part which deals with those operas written to Italian libretti and is titled the Italian Operas (CDs 1-33). The remaining works were written to German libretti; the liner-notes author in respect of these German operas is Richard Wigmore (CDs 34 to 44). Rather than commenting on each opera in this manner, I have decided to treat them in the order of composition, or, in the case of his last two operas, of their staging. In this way I can more easily incorporate linking comments on the influence of his father and librettists as well as the relevant social and musical milieu surrounding the composition.
Note: For ease of reference I have divided the review into two parts. This introduction and the early operas are dealt with in Part 1 and the mature work in Part 2. The cast for each, in sequence of composition or staging, is given at the end of the review. No recording dates or venues are provided with this collection.
Classical
FLAC (*.flac) (tracks) | 11,5 Gb
Contains CDs:
CD 1-2
Mozart: La Finta Semplice, (The pretended simpleton). Opera buffa in three acts. K.51
Barbara Hendricks; Siegfried Lorenz; Douglas Johnson; Ann Murray; Eva Lind; Hans Peter Blochwitz; Andrea Schmidt
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Bach, Peter Schreier
CD 3-5
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, Opera seria in three acts. K.87
Werner Hollweg; Arleen Auger; Edita Gruberova; Ileana Cotrubas; Agnes Baltsa; David Kübler
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 6-8
Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, A pastoral serenata in two parts. K.111
Agnes Baltsa; Edith Mathis; Peter Schreier, Arleen Auger
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 9-10
Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, (Scipio’s dream). A dramatic serenade in one act. K.126
Peter Schreier; Lucia Popp; Edita Gruberova; Claes H Ahnsjö; Tomas Moser
Salzburg Radio and Mozarteumchor. Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 11-13
Mozart: Lucio Silla, An opera seria in three acts
Peter Schreier; Julia Varady; Arleen Auger; Edith Mathis; Helen Donath; Werner Krenn
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 14-16
Mozart: La finta giardiniera, (The Pretend Gardener-Girl). A dramma giocosa in three acts. K.196 (1775)
Thomas Moser; Brigitte Fassbender; Julia Conwell; Ezio di Cesare; Lilian Suskis; Barry McDaniel
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 17-18
Mozart: Il re pastore, (The Shepherd King). An opera in two acts. K.208
Jerry Hadley; Sylvia McNair; Claes H. Ahnsjö; Iris Vermillion; Angela Mary Blasi
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner
CD 19-21
Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta, Opera seria in three acts. K.366. Ballet Music K. 367
Francesco Araiza; Barbara Hendricks; Roberta Alexander; Werner Hollweg; Uwe Heilmann; Susanne Mentzer
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, Colin Davis
CD 22
Mozart: L'oca del Cairo, (The Cairo Goose). Drama giocoso in two acts, unfinished. K.422
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Peter Schreier; Edith Wiens; Pamela Coburn; Inga Nielsen
Berlin Radio Choir. Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Bach, Peter Schreier
Mozart: Lo sposo deluso, Opera buffa in two acts. (fragment) K.430
Felicity Palmer; Anthony Rolfe Johnson; Robert Tear; Ileana Cotrubas
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 23-25
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Opera buffa in four acts. K. 492
Ingvar Wixell; Jessye Norman; Mirella Freni; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Yvonne Minton; Clifford Grant; Robert Tear, Lilian Watson
BBC Chorus. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 26-28
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Opera buffa in two acts. K.527
Ingvar Wixell; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Martina Arroyo; Kiri Te Kanawa; Stuart Burrows; Mirella Freni; Richard van Allan
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 29-31
Mozart: Così fan tutte, Dramma giocoso in two acts. K.588
Montserrat Caballé; Janet Baker; Ileana Cotrubas; Nicolai Gedda; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Richard van Allan
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 32-33
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, Opera seria in two acts. K.621
Stuart Burrows; Janet Baker; Lucia Popp; Frederica von Stade; Yvonne Minton; Robert Lloyd
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 34
Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, Singspiel in one act. K.50
Dominik Orieschnig; Georg Nigl; David Busch
Vienna Symphoniker, Uwe Christian Harrer
CD 35-37
Mozart: Die garterin aus liebe. German adaptation (1779-80) of La finta giardiniera with spoken dialogue K.196.
Helen Donath; Werner Hollweg; Jessye Norman; Gerhard Unger; Tatiana Troyanos; Ileana Cotrubas; Hermann Prey
Chorus and Orchestra of North German Radio, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
CD 38-39
Mozart: Zaide, (The Harem). Singspiel in two acts. K.344
Edith Mathis; Peter Schreier; Ingvar Wixell; Werner Hollweg
Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernhard Klee
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, Comedy with music in one act. K.486
Ileana Cotrubas; Ruth Welting; Anthony Rolfe Johnson; Robert Tear; Clifford Grant
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 40-41
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in three acts
Christiane Eda-Pierre; Norma Burrowes; Stuart Burrows; Robert Lloyd; Robert Tear
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Colin Davis
CD 42-44
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, Opera in two acts. K. 620
Margaret Price; Peter Schreier; Kurt Moll; Luciana Sierra; Stuart Burrows; Mikael Melbye
Leipzig Radio Chorus; Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis
Mozart: La Finta Semplice, (The pretended simpleton). Opera buffa in three acts. K.51
Barbara Hendricks; Siegfried Lorenz; Douglas Johnson; Ann Murray; Eva Lind; Hans Peter Blochwitz; Andrea Schmidt
Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Bach, Peter Schreier
CD 3-5
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, Opera seria in three acts. K.87
Werner Hollweg; Arleen Auger; Edita Gruberova; Ileana Cotrubas; Agnes Baltsa; David Kübler
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 6-8
Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, A pastoral serenata in two parts. K.111
Agnes Baltsa; Edith Mathis; Peter Schreier, Arleen Auger
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 9-10
Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, (Scipio’s dream). A dramatic serenade in one act. K.126
Peter Schreier; Lucia Popp; Edita Gruberova; Claes H Ahnsjö; Tomas Moser
Salzburg Radio and Mozarteumchor. Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 11-13
Mozart: Lucio Silla, An opera seria in three acts
Peter Schreier; Julia Varady; Arleen Auger; Edith Mathis; Helen Donath; Werner Krenn
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 14-16
Mozart: La finta giardiniera, (The Pretend Gardener-Girl). A dramma giocosa in three acts. K.196 (1775)
Thomas Moser; Brigitte Fassbender; Julia Conwell; Ezio di Cesare; Lilian Suskis; Barry McDaniel
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager
CD 17-18
Mozart: Il re pastore, (The Shepherd King). An opera in two acts. K.208
Jerry Hadley; Sylvia McNair; Claes H. Ahnsjö; Iris Vermillion; Angela Mary Blasi
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner
CD 19-21
Mozart: Idomeneo, re di Creta, Opera seria in three acts. K.366. Ballet Music K. 367
Francesco Araiza; Barbara Hendricks; Roberta Alexander; Werner Hollweg; Uwe Heilmann; Susanne Mentzer
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, Colin Davis
CD 22
Mozart: L'oca del Cairo, (The Cairo Goose). Drama giocoso in two acts, unfinished. K.422
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Peter Schreier; Edith Wiens; Pamela Coburn; Inga Nielsen
Berlin Radio Choir. Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Bach, Peter Schreier
Mozart: Lo sposo deluso, Opera buffa in two acts. (fragment) K.430
Felicity Palmer; Anthony Rolfe Johnson; Robert Tear; Ileana Cotrubas
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 23-25
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Opera buffa in four acts. K. 492
Ingvar Wixell; Jessye Norman; Mirella Freni; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Yvonne Minton; Clifford Grant; Robert Tear, Lilian Watson
BBC Chorus. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 26-28
Mozart: Don Giovanni, Opera buffa in two acts. K.527
Ingvar Wixell; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Martina Arroyo; Kiri Te Kanawa; Stuart Burrows; Mirella Freni; Richard van Allan
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 29-31
Mozart: Così fan tutte, Dramma giocoso in two acts. K.588
Montserrat Caballé; Janet Baker; Ileana Cotrubas; Nicolai Gedda; Wladimoro Ganzarolli; Richard van Allan
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 32-33
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, Opera seria in two acts. K.621
Stuart Burrows; Janet Baker; Lucia Popp; Frederica von Stade; Yvonne Minton; Robert Lloyd
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
CD 34
Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne, Singspiel in one act. K.50
Dominik Orieschnig; Georg Nigl; David Busch
Vienna Symphoniker, Uwe Christian Harrer
CD 35-37
Mozart: Die garterin aus liebe. German adaptation (1779-80) of La finta giardiniera with spoken dialogue K.196.
Helen Donath; Werner Hollweg; Jessye Norman; Gerhard Unger; Tatiana Troyanos; Ileana Cotrubas; Hermann Prey
Chorus and Orchestra of North German Radio, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
CD 38-39
Mozart: Zaide, (The Harem). Singspiel in two acts. K.344
Edith Mathis; Peter Schreier; Ingvar Wixell; Werner Hollweg
Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernhard Klee
Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, Comedy with music in one act. K.486
Ileana Cotrubas; Ruth Welting; Anthony Rolfe Johnson; Robert Tear; Clifford Grant
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
CD 40-41
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in three acts
Christiane Eda-Pierre; Norma Burrowes; Stuart Burrows; Robert Lloyd; Robert Tear
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Colin Davis
CD 42-44
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, Opera in two acts. K. 620
Margaret Price; Peter Schreier; Kurt Moll; Luciana Sierra; Stuart Burrows; Mikael Melbye
Leipzig Radio Chorus; Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis
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