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Harnoncourt and Mozart | Warner 2564688591

Harnoncourt and Mozart

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564688591

Barcode: 0825646885916

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 17th August 2009

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Contents

Artists

Chamber Orchestra Of Europe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Concentus Musicus Wien

Conductor

Nicholas Harnoncourt

Artists

Chamber Orchestra Of Europe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Concentus Musicus Wien

Conductor

Nicholas Harnoncourt

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CD 1    
1. Symphony No.40 in G minor K550 I - Molto Allegro
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
2. Don Giovanni : Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
3. Don Giovanni : Act 1 "Finch' han dal vino" [Don Giovanni]
Thomas Hampson, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
4. Piano Concerto No.23 in A major K488 : II Adagio
Friedrich Gulda, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
5. Serenade No.13 in G major K525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' : IV Allegro
Concentus musicus Wien
6. Exsultate, jubilate K165 : I Exsultate, jubilate
Barbara Bonney, Concentus musicus Wien
7. Vesperae solennes de confessore [Solemn Vespers] K339 : V Laudate Dominum
Joan Rodgers, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien
8. Idomeneo : Act 1 "Nettuno s'onori, quel nome risuoni" [Chorus]
Chor & Mozartorchester des Opernhauses Zürich
9. Così fan tutte : Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
10. La clemenza di Tito : Act 2 "Non più di fiori" [Vitellia]
Lucia Popp, Mozartorchester des Opernhauses Zurich
11. Symphony No.35 in D major K.385 "Haffner" : Presto
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
12. Symphony No.39 in E flat major KV 543 I Adagio - Allegro
Chamber Orchestra of Europe

CD 2    
1. Le nozze di Figaro : Overture
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2. Le nozze di Figaro : Act 2 Finale - "Voi signori, che giusto siete" [Marcellina, Basilio, Bartolo, Il conte, Susanna, La Contessa, Figaro]
Ann Murray, Philip Langridge, Kurt Moll, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Bonney, Charlotte Margiono, Anton Sharinger, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
3. Symphony No.29 in A major, K.201 : IV Allegro con spirito
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
4. Horn Concerto no.4 in E flat major K495 : III Rondo - Allegro vivace
Hermann Baumann, Concentus musicus Wien
5. Serenade in B flat major KV361 "Gran Partita" : III Adagio
Wiener Mozart-Bläser
6. Lucio Silla : Act 1 "Il tenero momento" [Cecilio]
Cecilia Bartoli, Concentus musicus Wien
7. Die Entführung aus dem Serail : Overture
Mozartorchester des Opernhauses Zürich
8. Ein musikalischer Spaß K.522 : Presto
Concentus musicus Wien
9. Symphony No.38 in D major KV 504 II Andante
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
10. Symphony No.41 in C major K 551 "Jupiter" IV Molto Allegro
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
11. Die Zauberflöte : Overture
Mozartorchester des Opernhauses Zürich

12. Die Zauberflöte : Act 2 "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" [Königin der Nacht]
Edita Gruberova, Mozartorchester des Opernhauses Zürich
13. Requiem in D minor K626 : VII Confutatis
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper, Concentus musicus Wien
14. Requiem in D minor K626 : VIII Lacrimosa
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper, Concentus musicus Wien



Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty

Once dubbed the high priest of “authenticity”, dread word, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cellist, early music specialist, author and conductor has long been both plausible and consistent in his denial of the accusation. “I would never use the word authenticity for my work”, he says. “It can only be authentic ‘me’, not authentic Bach, Biber, Handel or Telemann. Old instruments produce the best sound for this repertory but they do not necessarily produce the sound of the period.”

Nowadays, even the “early music” label can no longer be applied with undue emphasis to Harnoncourt, for he has become, over the past twenty-five years or so, as identifiable an interpreter of Classical, Romantic and twentieth-century music as he has remained in the Baroque sphere on which his reputation was established. Indeed, since his set of Beethoven symphonies for Teldec was named Record of the Year in the 1992 Gramophone Awards, Harnoncourt has performed and recorded all the Schubert symphonies (Teldec), as well as symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorˇák and Bruckner, and a wide range of vocal and choral music from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

“For me the emotional responses in music are the most important. Authenticity and performing practice are always in danger of becoming dogmatic. Besides musical value, an opera must have a message as a wok of art which is not bound just to its own time. The drama must be so timeless in its depiction of human psychology that you can forget it is three hundred years old, or whatever. Monteverdi is such a composer, Handel another.” Happy birthday, maestro, and many happy returns of the day!

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