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Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
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Label: Alpha
Cat No: ALPHA242
Barcode: 3760014192425
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 24th June 2016
The cast is pretty appealing (David Portillo as Pedrillo, Norman Reinhardt as Belmonte, Rachele Gilmore as Blonde, Jane Archibald as a radiant Konstanze) and attacks ensembles with vigour and arias with the kind of breezy elegance that makes easy work of fiendish stuff. But with two other major versions of Entführung out last year from René Jacobs and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, what the young conductor Jérémie Rhorer really offers is a whole lot of orchestral charisma: an overture full of bounce and clatter, pacey tempos that fizz but also breathe, textures that are bright and fibrous, a delivery that is happily slapdash without getting messy. 
Although performances of Mozart's 1783 Singspiel these days are outnumbered by those of his opere serie, ldomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito, this is the third recording I've been sent in 12 months. Unlike Rene Jacobs's Berlin studio recording for Harmonia Mundi or Yannick Nezet-Seguin's "patched" live version from Baden-Baden (DG), this is a straight concert performance from a radio broadcast. The downside is a demonstrative audience, but Rohrer's way with the music is so invigorating — like Jacobs, he uses period instruments, which highlight Mozart's "Turkish" orchestration — that there are compensations aplenty. His cast mostly equals or even surpasses the rival sets: Norman Reinhardt's plangent lyrical Belmonte is more of a stylist than DG's Rolando Villazon, while Jane Archibald's tone falls more easily on the ear than Diana Damrau's (DG). Mishca Shelomianski is a ripely humorous Osmin equal to the role's technical demands, and David Portillo a fearless Pedrillo. Only Rachele Gilmore's foggy diction as Blonde lets the side down, but the set sparkles. 
