Che Puro Ciel!: The Rise of Classical Opera - Bejun Mehta

Bach, Johann Christian, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Hasse, Johann Adolf, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, różni kompozytorzy, Traetta, Tommaso

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Jacobs, René, Mehta, Bejun

HMC 902172

Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz In the famous Preface to Alceste (1767), Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi posited a new direction for opera. They spoke of moving beyond Baroque forms, of striving for a new naturalism in opera. They wanted, in Calzabigi's lovely phrase, to liberate the language of the heart. Taken from the height of this Reform period, the arias on this disc reveal composers exploring and experimenting, at struggle and at play, as they create the new forms that bring to opera the noble simplicity of the Classical era.

Works:
• Bach, J C: No, che non ha la sorte...Vo solcando un mar crudele (from Artaserse)
• Gluck: Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice)
• Gluck: Pensa a serbarmi, o cara (from Ezio)
• Gluck: Se il fulmine sospendi (from Ezio)
• Gluck: Vieni a' regni del riposo (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
• Hasse, J A: Dei di Roma, ah perdonate! (from Il Trionfo di Clelia)
• Mozart: Ah di si nobil alma (from Ascanio in Alba)
• Mozart: Già dagli occhi il velo è tolto (from Mitridate, rè di Ponto)
• Mozart: Perché tacer degg'io?...Cara, lontano ancora (from Ascanio in Alba)
• Traetta: Ah, se lo vedi piangere (from Antigona)
• Traetta: Ah, sì, da te dipende (from Antigona)
• Traetta: Dormi Oreste! (from Ifigenia in Tauride)

CD x 1

Harmonia Mundi

14/10/2013

3149020217221

BBC Music Magazine: 'Opera Choice' (2014)
Gramophone Award: 'Nomination' (2014)
Gramophone: 'Gramophone Choice' (2014)