Mozart: The Concert Arias
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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartConductor: Argeo Quadri
Conductor: Gyorgy Fischer
Conductor: John Pritchard
Conductor: Reinhard Peters
Performer: Stuart Knussen
Performer: Geoffrey Parsons
Performer: Rainer Kuchl
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Performer: Edita Gruberov?
Performer: Elfriede Hobarth
Performer: Fernando Corena
Performer: G?sta Winbergh
Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa
Performer: Krisztina Laki
Performer: Teresa Berganza
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1997-11-11
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- arr. by Franz Beyer
- arr. by Franz Beyer
- Version 1
- Version 2
- Arr by Furst
Music reviews of Mozart: The Concert Arias
Music Review: So many arias sung so very well.
Rating: 5 Stars
To my knowledge, this collection first appeared as part of the Time-Life series of Mozart in the late 70s and early 80s. The soprano arias all appeared in one volume, while the tenor and bass/baritone arias appeared elsewhere, the basses as a 5th LP with the Solti Don Giovanni. That issue included a couple of arias for Fischer-Dieskau that did not make it onto these discs. But then, with roughly 75 minutes per disc, I can't complain.
I am not a great lover of Fischer-Dieskau's voice per se, and Fernando Corena sometimes had to use finesse (to disguise vocal purity) more than we like today. But each performance by them, Mr. Windbergh, and all those amazing ladies is priceless. Remember that many of these were "insert" arias for operas by other people, or at least used the texts that had appeared elsewhere. But Mozart makes each one a gem, and the singing is impeccable. There is a lot of poised singing, beautifully phrased and musically molded, but that does not say that there is no personality. And the names who are not so well known - Miss Laki, for example - are still very capable of singing into the stratosphere with great ease, accuracy and beautiful tone. I can't imagine a collection that needs to be in a collection (particularly a Mozart collection) more than this one. I might add that even if you don't know the name Elfriede Hobarth, she sings the hardest and highest arias with incredible aplomb, and if two ultra high notes (Gs above high C?) are a tad flat, I don't care. She is amazing.
(My only quibble is that I would have preferred the arias to appear in the order Mozart wrote them, something easier to do on CD than it was on LP. These discs absolutely duplicate the order of the Soprano Arias release on LP.)
The texts also cover only the arias for the women. Why didn't they consider it important to include texts for the men as well. Where are the informative notes that appeared in the LP issue of the Soprano Arias.
On the plus side, the texts are legible, which means in a type size that doesn't send you to the optometrist.
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