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Mozart 9 Misero! O Sogno, K.431 [9.28] an ITALIAN JOURNEY 0 Il Mio Tesoro [4.04] Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni: Act 2, No.22 Mozart 9 Misero! o sogno, K.431 [9.28] AN ITALIAN JOURNEY 0 Il mio tesoro [4.04] Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni: Act 2, No.22 1 Il de­­sio di vendetta [5.12] q Fuor del Mar [6.25] Lucio, Lucio Silla: Act 1, No.5 Idomeneo, Idomeneo: Act 2, No.12 2 Sposa cara [4.26] w Un’aura amorosa [4.40] Polidoro, La finta semplice: Act 2, No.17 Ferrando, Cosi fan tutte: Act 1, No.17 3 Quercia annosa [3.05] e In qual fiero contrasto — Tradito, schernito [3.24] Publio, Il sogno di Scipione: Act 1, No.7 Ferrando, Cosi fan tutte: Act 2, No.27 4 Dentro il mio petto [5.56] r Se all’imperio [5.12] Don Anchises, La finta giardiniera: Act 1, No.3 Tito, La Clemenza di Tito: Act 2, No.20 5 Se vicendo [6.04] Total timings [67.31] Alessandro, Il rè pastore: Act 2, Scene 4 6 Il padre Adorato [2.52] Idamante, Idomeneo: Act 1, No.7 7 Sol può dir [2.49] JEREMY OVENDEN TENOR Agenore, Il rè pastore: Act 2, Scene 10 ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 8 Vedrommi intorno [3.51] JONATHAN COHEN CONDUCTOR Idomeneo, Idomeneo: Act 1, No.6 www.signumrecords.com ARTIST’S NOTE MOZART (1756-1791) was rapidly written but fell foul of Viennese AN ITALIAN JOURNEY musical politics, so the Mozarts returned to The inspiration for this recording came from two We started with Lucio Silla which he wrote Salzburg, where the work was performed at the simple factors: I have been singing Mozart’s when he was 16 years old and ended with The development of Mozart’s creative genius Archbishop’s Palace the following year. The operas for the last 14 years and I have an ‘Se all impero’ from La Clemenza di Tito, the very can be illustrated in many of the genres that he plot, in the manner of the commedia dell’arte, enormous affinity with Italy, the country where last Italian opera aria that Mozart wrote before adorned – symphony, concerto, string quartet derives from a farce by Goldoni. In the aria my career began and where I lived happily for his death at the age of 35. We chose the concert – but is perhaps most striking in the field of ‘Sposa cara’, the timid Polidoro tells his proud five years. aria Misero! o sogno o son desto as the opera. From his first attempts he was an brother Cassandro that he should not be so rude centrepiece of the CD – an aria which is rarely amazingly adept setter of a text, and had already to the baroness Rosina, who loves him. If he I wanted the programme for this CD to be a performed, fiendishly difficult to sing and produced operas of marvellous invention in his is upset, he suggests, then he should beat musical journey through Mozart’s life but emotionally draining, but that shows so well teens. But he steadily achieved a more profound Polidoro, not her. concentrating solely on his Italian repertoire. the brilliance of Mozart. grasp of dramatic situations and pacing, whether Jonathan Cohen and I spent some time going comic or tragic, and refined his psychological In strong contrast to this amiable comedy through every Italian aria that Mozart ever I hope this CD takes you on an enjoyable musical insight in delineating character. The selection stands Lucio Silla, K.135, a ‘dramma per musica’ wrote and began the fascinating task of creating journey and that you discover for yourself how of operatic arias presented here, which range composed by the 16-year-old Mozart for our disc. the young Mozart changed and became the from his earliest operas to his last, are a perfect performance in the theatre at Milan (which Mozart that we know today. illustration of his unrivalled skills in operation was then under Austrian rule). The last opera he I not only wanted to record the famous arias, Jeremy Ovenden over more than two decades. would write for Italy, this is an ambitious and but also to rediscover Mozart’s early arias, and almost dramatic work, somewhat in the tradition so I came up with the title of the CD, Mozart: an Mozart’s first full-length opera – and only his of the older opera seria, full of long bravura Italian Journey: a journey of discovery through second work for the stage – was the opera arias. The libretto by Giovanni de Gamerra Mozart’s music. I also wanted listeners to buffa La finta semplice, K.51/46a (The feigned (revised by Metastasio) is loosely founded on embark on their own journey, discovering for simpleton), composed at the age of 12 in 1768. events in the Roman dictatorship of Lucius themselves just how the young Mozart developed Leopold Mozart had taken his son to Vienna and, Cornelius Sulla in the first century BC. The first as a composer as he journeyed from childhood anxious to increase his reputation, invented performance, in the Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan into adulthood. a story that the Emperor himself had taken a on 26 December 1772, was a near-disaster since fancy to Wolfgang’s music and thus persuaded the audience had to wait three hours for the the impresario Giuseppe Afflisio to commission opera to begin (owing to the delayed arrival of an opera from him for 100 ducats. The work the Archduke) and the work itself, already four Adrian Peacock (producer), Jeremy Ovenden and Jonathan Cohen (conductor). - 4 - - 5 - hours long, was filled out with three ballets. Roman general Scipio Aemilianus dreams that his love for Sandrina and sings now of the sound friend Agenor, who is in love with Tamyris, Nevertheless it played to full houses on 26 the goddesses of Constancy and Fortune tell him of the orchestra with its flutes and oboes and its laments the torture he is going through subsequent evenings; but like most of Mozart’s he must choose one of them as his protectress. drum and trumpets: a feast of sound that almost by losing his love to Aminta through early operas was long forgotten until the 20th Transported to heaven, he consults his ancestors drives him insane. Alexander’s decree. century. ‘Il desio di vendetta’ finds the dictator on which goddess he should choose, but Silla in a rage because Junia, whom he desires, eventually selects Constancy of his own volition. Il rè pastore, K.208 (The Shepherd King) is not Six years passed before, in 1780, Mozart has declared her hatred for him, as the daughter ‘Quercia annosa’ is sung by the spirit of a full-length opera but a two-act drama to a composed the ‘dramma per musica’ Idomeneo, of his defeated rival Marius and the fiancée of Scipio’s adoptive father, Publio. Scipione libretto adapted from one that Metastasio had rè di Creta, K.366 – another work commissioned his enemy Cecilio. All his affectionate feelings wishes to leave the mortal world and remain based upon a 16th-century play by Torquato for performance in Munich, but which stands for her have turned to hatred, and he resolves to in Heaven, but Publio tells him that it is not yet Tasso. Contemporary writers also refer to it as a at the beginning of the series of his mature kill her. She may beg him for her life, he says, time. Like an oak tree growing strong against serenade or a cantata, which rather suggests operas. Premiered at the Residenz Theater on 29 but he will not grant her a pardon. winds and winter, Scipione must go through that the premiere – which took place in the January 1781, the work was held to be a success, many trials to strengthen him before he is Archbishop’s Palace in Salzburg on 23 April but its only revival in Mozart’s lifetime was an Despite its earlier Köchel number the one-act ready for heavenly life. 1775 – was a concert performance rather amateur performance in Vienna in 1786, for ‘serenata drammatica’ Il sogno di Scipione, than staged. The work had been commissioned which he partly revised the score. An epic drama K.126 (Scipio’s Dream) is probably a little La finta giardiniera, K.196 (The feigned to celebrate the fact that a son of the Empress of conscience and filial love complete with later than Lucio Silla. In all probability it was gardener), a three-act opera buffa to a libretto Maria Theresa was visiting Salzburg. In it, sea-monster, Idomeneo was among Mozart’s composed in mid-1771 for the celebration of the by Giuseppe Petrosellini, was commissioned in Alexander the Great restores the rule of Sidon most ambitious operas, for which he produced a 50th anniversary of the ordination of Mozart’s 1774 for the carnival season at Munich. Originally to its rightful king, Aminta, who has been living score of unrelenting intensity. In ‘Il padre Adorato’ patron, Archbishop von Schrattenbach – who scheduled for performance just before the end as a shepherd and would prefer to remain one. Idamante, the son of Idomeneo, greets his died before the anniversary arrived. The ‘serenata’ of the year, its difficulties demanded additional father, whom he has not seen for 20 years. His may then in fact have been performed to rehearsal time and the premiere took place on ‘Se vicendo’ is an aria for Alexander (Alessandro), joy turns to consternation, however, when celebrate the arrival of his successor as 13 January 1775 at Munich’s Salvatortheater. in the Greek military camp. He has decided Idomeneo runs away from him. We discover the Archbishop of Salzburg, Hieronymous Colloredo It was later adapted as a Singspiel in German, to leave Sidon now that Aminta has assumed reason in ‘Vedrommi intorno’, where Idomeneo – with whom Mozart would later have such a with spoken dialogue.
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