Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Le Nozze di Figaro
| Type: | album |
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| Formaat: | CD |
| Componist(en): | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Uitvoerder(s): | Collegium Vocale Gent, Simon Keenlyside, Véronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Lorenzo Regazzo, Angelika Kirchschlager, Marie Mclaughlin, Kobie Van Rensburg, Antonio Abete, Nuria Rial, Concerto Köln |
| Dirigent(en): | René Jacobs |
| Label(s): | Harmonia Mundi |
| Label code: | HMC 801818.20 |
| Releasedatum: | 01.04.2004 |
| Aanwezig in Muziekcentrum | ja |
| Plaatsingsnummer: | 000907 |
| Genre(s): | classicisme |
Cd van de maand, een 10 in Luister mei 2004.
Winnaar van een 'Gramophone Record of the Year' 2003
Le Nozze di Figaro
Simon Keenlyside (bariton), Véronique Gens (sopraan), Partrizia Ciofi (sopraan), Lorenzo Reagazzo (bas), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-sopraan), Marie mcLaughlin (sopraan), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Antonio Abete (bas), Nuria Rial (sopraan); Collegium Vocale Gent; Concerto Köln o.l.v. René Jacobs
Concerto Köln's playing is beautifully balanced, with an unusually dynamic fortepiano continuo. Of the cast, Keenlyside's Count is most interesting: properly threatening and pleasingly unpredictable. Though Jacobs's tempi verge on the breathless in some arias, his control of the ensembles is exhilaratingly tight. Not a quaver is lost, not a nuance ignored.
(Anna Picard, The Independent on Sunday, 28 March 2004)
I learned to love and appreciate the opera afresh....This is a major issue, marvellously recorded."
(Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph, 11.04.2004)
This is an undeniably exciting, challenging Figaro, with a cast who works brilliantly as a team. Veronique Gens brings a mingled finesse and vulnerability to the Countess's music, while Simon Keenlyside's Count - truly formidable, yet capable of honeyed suavity - is as charismatic as any on disc.
(Richard Wigmore,CD of the Week, The Daily Telegraph, 24.04.2004)
***
I haven’t enjoyed a Figaro so much in years.
(Hugh Canning, Classical CD of the Week, The Sunday Times, 25.04.2004)
Every aria sounds fresh-minted and new, and the singers sound like they’re having a ball.
(Warwick Thompson, Classic FM Magazine, June 2004)
Beg it, borrow it, buy it, blag it...but whatever you do, don't miss it: this is a truly life-enhancing Figaro, and I wouldn't swap it for another.
(Andrew McGregor, Disc of the Week, BBC Radio 3, 24 June 2004)
Jacobs ignites Mozart’s comical masterpiece with a thoroughly contemporary detonator.
(Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, 2 July 2004)
"Als één dirigent zich heeft ingespannen om de koudwatervrees voor 17de- en 18de eeuwse opera's weg te nemen, is het René Jacobs wel...Ook Le nozze di Figaro past in die lijn van Jacobs' zich alsmaar verdiepende inzichten. Hij weet een ritmische subtiliteit en muzikale accenten in Mozarts recitatieven aan te brengen waardoor het karakter van de personages beter uit de verf komt dan doorgaans het geval is in de opera buffa vol verwarrende persoonsverwisselingen."
(Marijke Schouten, Luister, mei 2004, p. 55)
*****
There is always the twinkling sense of dramatic give-and-take that is the hallmark of a good performance of Figaro in the opera house, and for which Jacobs must be given most of the praise; his approach to the score is a perfect amalgam of the scholarly and the practical.
(Andrew Clements, Classical CD of the Week, The Guardian, 4 april)
Keenlyside's robust Count is every inch a match for Regazzo's sonorously Italian Figaro, with Gens a sumptuous Countess and Ciofi a feisty Susanna. Throw in Kirchschlager's beguiling Cherubino, plus terrific ensemble support, and you have a racy, pacy, really thrilling new account of one of the greatest of all operas.
(Anthony Holden, Classical CD of the Week, The Observer, 4 April 2004)
Strongly cast, imaginatively directed: it’s a Figaro well worth hearing.
(Stanley Sadie, Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, May 2004)
Verwante items in de databank
| Persknipsels/Artikels: (Wat is dit?) | Dirigent René Jacobs wint Grammy Award voor opera-opname (15.02.2005) Mozart (05.2004) Mozart W.A. Mozart L'événement du mois |
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