Mozart / Christoff / Pirazzini - Betulia Liberata - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The recording boasts a wealth of critically acclaimed vocalists. They are accompanied by the Coro e Orchestra del' Oficina Musicum, directed from the harpsichord by Riccardo Favero. Recorded September 2006, Chiesa della Scalabrini, Bassano del Grappa, Italy. The only InchmodernInch recording available as a single issue! Mozart wrote this oratorio, his only one, in his mid-teens, and his genius was immediately evident in the dramatic choruses, moving arias and instrumental brilliance of this early masterwork. Excellent line up of soloists and Italian orchestral forces and conductor. Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Popli de Betulia 3. D'ogni Colpa 4. E in Che Sperar? 5. Ma Quel Virtù 6. Gia Le Memorie Antiche 7. Non Hai Cor 8. E Quel Pace Sperate 9. E Quel Pace Sperate 10. Chi È Costei 11. Dal Pari Infeconda 12. Oh Saggia, Oh Santa 13. Pietà, Se Irato Sei 14. Signor, Carmi a Te Viene 15. Terribile D'aspetto 16. Ti Consola, Achior 17. Parto Inerme, E Non Pavento 18. Oh Prodigio! Oh Stupor! 1. Troppo Mal Corrisponde 2. Se Dio Vender Tu Vuoi 3. Confuso Io Son 4. Quel Nocchier 5. Lungamente Non Dura 6. Prigionier Che Fa Ritorno 7. Giuditta, Ozia 8. Te Solo Adoro 9. Di Tua Vittoria 10. Con Troppa Rea Vilta 11. Quanta Cura 12. Quei Moti Che Senti 13. Seguansi, O Carmi 14. Lodi Al Gran Dio

Mozart's Maestri Johann Christian Bach & Giovanni Marco Rutini, Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni M. Rutini, Performer Luca Guglielmi, Number of Discs 1. It was only on very rare occasions that the Mozarts, father and son, had praise to spare for their composing colleagues. Amongst the few about whom they spoke favorably were Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) and the Italian Giovanni Marco Rutini (1723-1797). On this CD, the harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi and his ensemble Concerto Madrigalesco present works of both of these composers which bear eloquent witness to this appraisal. Mozart expressed his admiration for Johann Christian Bach, whom he had met in London when still a child, in a letter of 1778 in which he wrote that he loved him 'with all my heart and I have high esteem for him'. Together with his father, Mozart adapted Bach's Sonatas Op. 5, Nos. 2-4 as concerti with accompanying strings, interpreted by Luca Guglielmi on a replica of a Silbermann fortepiano. They are notable for their graceful, cantabile style, felt by the young Mozart to be particularly worthy of imitation. Leopold Mozart was unusually generous in his praise of the then quite well-known Sonatas, Op. 5 of Rutini. Typical of these works is the varied treatment of textures and harmonies, as is the skilled use of contrasts - these, too, were elements that the young Mozart made his own. Guglielmi uses three different replicas of historical harpsichords for his recording of these sonatas. Album Tracks 1. Allegro - Luca Guglielmi/Concerto Madrigalesco 2. Andante - Luca Guglielmi/Concerto Madrigalesco 3. Tempo Di Menuetto - Minore - Da Capo Tempo Di Menuetto - Luca Guglielmi/Concerto Madrigalesco 4. Con Brio - Luca Guglielmi 5. Minuetto - Trio - Minuetto Da Capo - Luca Guglielmi 6. Allegro Molto - Luca Guglielmi 7. Allegro - Luca Guglielmi 8. Allegro - Luca Guglielmi/

Mozart / Badura-Skoda / Furtwangler - Pno Con [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2003