Haydn & Mozart - Scenes & Arias
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825049
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 6th October 2017
Contents
Works
Mass in C major, Hob. XXV:5 'Missa Sancta Caeciliae', 'Missa cellensis'Ah, lo previdi, K272
Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K538
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Artists
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)Haydn Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Harry NewstonePeter Maag
Works
Mass in C major, Hob. XXV:5 'Missa Sancta Caeciliae', 'Missa cellensis'Ah, lo previdi, K272
Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K538
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Artists
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)Haydn Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Harry NewstonePeter Maag
About
Entführung has never commanded the record catalogues like the Da Ponte trilogy, and thus the opportunity was lost to capture Vyvyan in this and the other Mozartian role which she often sang near the start of her career, Elettra in Idomeneo. By way of partial compensation, she recorded for Decca in 1957–58 a studio album of dramatic scenes and arias by Haydn and Mozart, which are distinguished by the qualities noted above of her work on stage. ‘Ah, lo previdi’ and ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ are hardly less technically challenging than Constanze’s arias, but Vyvyan sings them with sovereign authority and the penetrating tone that contributed to her imposing stage presence.
Indeed her particular combination of authority and vulnerability, both on stage and in life, were qualities captured by Benjamin Britten in the several principal roles he wrote for her such as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw and Tytania (spelled thus in honour of Vyvyan herself) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They are also aspects of the abandoned Berenice in Haydn’s extended and unusually melodramatic scena.
Giving stylish backing to Vyvyan was a London pick-up band under the name of the Haydn Orchestra and conducted by the Classical-era specialist Harry Newstone, who made many pioneering recordings of Haydn symphonies in the UK. Filling out this new collection are three items from an album first released in May 1956, when the soprano was accompanied by the LPO and Peter Maag who made an international reputation as a Mozart conductor with regular appearances at festivals such as Aix and Salzburg from the early years of his long career.
This CD is one of five recordings released by Eloquence in September 2017 celebrating the art of Jennifer Vyvyan. All Decca recordings from the 1950s, many appearing for the first time on Decca CDs, they include ‘Mr. Bach at Vauxhall Gardens’ (ELQ4825387), the first recording of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (ELQ4827449), ‘Songs of England’ (ELQ4825045) and arias by Mozart and Haydn (ELQ4825049).
‘I have nothing but admiration for the assurance and agility with which [Jennifer Vyvyan] negotiates these vocal precipices ... The tight little vibrato in her voice is completely in place in moods of passion and anguish ... Harry Newstone’s accompaniment is unfailingly alert, and the recording excellent.’ - Gramophone, October 1960
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