Mozart Live 1978
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4828705
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 9th March 2018
Contents
Works
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505Idomeneo, Re di Creta, K366
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Artists
Jessye Norman (soprano)Alfred Brendel (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conductor
Neville MarrinerWorks
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505Idomeneo, Re di Creta, K366
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Artists
Jessye Norman (soprano)Alfred Brendel (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conductor
Neville MarrinerAbout
Everyone associated with the concert could boast impeccable Mozartian credentials. Two concert arias - ‘Non più, tutto ascoltai’ and the sublime ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ - were sung by Jessye Norman, who at that stage in her illustrious career was still taking on the Mozart soprano roles which had won her acclaim at the Royal Opera. The obbligato soloist in the latter aria was none other than Alfred Brendel, whose credentials as a Mozart pianist need no rehearsal, and he returned in the second half of the concert for the magnificent C major Piano Concerto, K503, of 1786, which wears the profound good humour of the recently premiered Le nozze di Figaro.
The concert was completed by the Overture to Idomeneo and the Symphony No.40, K550, played by the ensemble which more than any other was associated in the minds of record-collectors, in the UK at least, with the music of Mozart: the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, led with his unfailing sense of style by its founder conductor, Neville Marriner. Producing the concert for a subsequent 2-LP release on Philips was Erik Smith, who went on to mastermind the label’s Complete Mozart Edition released in time for the 1991 bicentenary of the composer’s death. Portions of the event have been released on CD before, but never the entire concert, which makes this newly remastered reissue on Eloquence an essential acquisition for all Mozart lovers, enhanced by original sleeve notes and texts and translations of the arias.
‘Jessye Norman sings magnificently, with what appears to be effortless agility and with a particularly beautiful quality in mezza voce, and she is most sympathetically partnered by Hugh Maguire and Alfred Brendel respectively ... A striking performance of the G minor symphony: appropriately taut and nervous in the quick movements, and with an almost chamber-musical intimacy and refinement in the Andante. The performance of the C major Concerto could hardly be bettered.’ - Gramophone, November 1978
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