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Tuesday Matinee at the Opera: Mozart / Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Harnoncourt),: great compositions/performances

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Mozart / Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Harnoncourt)

  scrymgeour34

Published on Oct 12, 2013

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni (dramma giocoso in due atti), K. 527 (1787)
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte
00:00 – Overture
Act I.
05:41 – No. 1 Introduzione: Notte e giorno faticar [Leporello]
07:28 – Non sperar, se non m’uccidi [Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, L]
08:54 – Lasciala, indegno! [Il Commendatore, DG, L]
11:02 – Recitativo: Leporello, ove sei? [DG, L]
11:35 – Recitativo: Ah! del padre in periglio [DA, Don Ottavio]
11:52 – No. 2 Recitativo accompagnato e duetto: Ma qual mai s’offre, oh Dei – [DA, DO]
14:59 – Fuggi, crudele, fuggi! [DA, DO]
18:45 – Recitativo: Orsù, specciati presto [DG, L]
20:26 – No. 3 Aria: Ah chi mi dice mai [Donna Elvira, DG, L]
24:02 – Recitativo: Chi è là? Stelle! che vedo! [DE, DG, L]
26:55 – No. 4 Aria: Madamina, il catalogo [L]
32:14 – Recitativo: In questa forma dunque [DE]
32:46 – No. 5 Coro: Giovinette, che fate all’amore [Zerlina, Masetto, Coro]
34:05 – Recitativo: Manco male è partita [Z, DG, L, M]
36:35 – No. 6 Aria: Ho capito [M]
38:14 – Recitativo: Alfin siam liberati [Z, DG]
40:22 – No. 7 Duettino: Là ci darem la mano [DG, Z]
44:03 – Recitativo: Fermati scellerato [DE, DG, Z]
44:55 – No. 8 Aria: Ah fuggi il traditor [DE]
45:57 – Recitativo: Mi par ch’oggi il demonio [DG, DO, DA]
47:05 – Recitativo: Ah ti ritrovo [DE]
47:14 – No. 9 Quartetto: Non ti fidar, o misera [DA, DE, DO, DG]
51:26 – Recitativo: Povera sventurata! [DG]
51:53 – No. 10 Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria: Don Ottavio, son morta! [DA, DO]
55:31 – Or sai chi l’onore [DA]
58:27 – Recitativo: Come mai cerder deggio [DO]
59:02 – No. 10a Aria: Dalla sua pace [DO]
1:03:40 – Recitativo: Io deggio ad ogni patto [DG, L]
1:05:25 – No. 11 Aria: Fin ch’han dal vino [DG]
1:06:40 – Recitativo: Masetto, senti un po’! [Z, M]
1:07:50 – No. 12 Aria: Batti, batti, o bel Masetto [Z]
1:11:33 – Recitativo: Guarda un po’ [Z, DG, M]
1:12:07 – No 13 Finale: Presto, presto pria ch’ei venga [M, Z]
1:13:12 – Sù, svegliatevi, da bravi! [DG, Coro]
1:14:08 – Tra quest’arbori celata [Z, DG, M]
1:16:42 – Bisogna aver coraggio [DE, DO, DA, L, DG]
1:19:02 – Protegga il giusto cielo [DA, DO, DE]
1:21:10 – Riposate, vezzose ragazze [DG, L, M, Z]
1:22:25 – Venite pur avanti [L, DG, DA, DE, DO, M, Z]
1:26:50 – Ecco il birbo che t’ha offesa… [DG, L, DO, DA, DE, Z, M]
1:28:32 – Trema, trema scellerato [Tutti]

Act II.
1:30:50 – No. 14 Duetto: Eh via buffone [Don Giovanni, Leporello]
1:32:01 – Recitativo: Leporello, Signore [DG, L]
1:33:59 – No. 15 Terzetto: Ah taci, ingiusto core [Donna Elvira, DG, L]
1:39:42 – Recitativo: Amico che ti par? [DG, L]
1:40:14 – Recitativo: Eccomi a voi! [DE, DG, L]
1:41:56 – No. 16 Canzonetta: Deh vieni alla finestra [DG]
1:44:20 – Recitativo: V’è gente alla finestra [DG] – Non ci stanchiamo [DG, Masetto]
1:45:32 – No. 17 Aria: Metà di voi quà vadano [DG]
1:48:30 – Recitativo: Zitto! Lascia ch’io senta [DG, M]
1:49:16 – Recitativo: Ah ahi! la testa mia [M, Zerlina]
1:50:34 – No. 18 Aria: Vedrai, carino [Z]
1:54:06 – Recitativo: Di molte faci il lume [DE, L]
1:54:39 – No. 19 Sestetto: Sola sola in buio loco [Donna Anna, DE, Don Ottavio, L]
1:57:31 – Sestetto (cont’d): Ferma, briccone [DA, DE, L, Z, DO, L, M]
2:00:00 – Sestetto (cont’d): Mille torbidi pensieri [do.]
2:02:31 – Recitativo: Dunque quello sei tu [DE, Z, DO, L, M]
2:02:53 – No. 20 Aria: Ah pietà, signori miei [L]
2:04:51 – Recitativo: Ferma, perfido, ferma [DE, Z, DO, M]
2:05:34 – No. 21 Aria: Il mio tesoro intanto [DO]
2:09:44 – No. 21b Recitativo accompagnato ed Aria: In quali eccessi – Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata [DE]
2:15:40 – Recitativo: Ah ah ah ah, questa è buona [DG, L, Il Commendatore]
2:20:35 – No. 22 Duetto: O statua gentilissima [DG, L]
2:24:12 – Recitativo: Calmatevi, idol mio [DA, DO]
2:25:00 – No. 23 Recitativo accompagnato: Crudele! – Non mi dir, bell’idol mio [DA]
2:31:03 – Recitativo: Ah, si segua il suo passo [DO]
2:31:25 – No. 24 Finale: Già la mensa è preparata [DG, L]
2:35:49 – L’ultima prova [DE, DG, L]
2:37:59 – Che grido è questo mai? [DG, L]
2:39:14 – Don Giovanni, a cenar teco [Il Commendatore, DG, L]
2:44:42 – Da qual tremore insolito… [DG, Coro, L]
2:45:46 – Ah! dov’è il perfido? [DO, DA, DE, Z, M, L]
2:47:22 – Or che tutti, o mio tesoro [DO, DA, DE, Z, M, L]
2:49:39 – Resti dunque quel birbon [Z, M, L]
2:50:13 – Questo è il fin di chi fa mal! [Tutti]

Don Giovanni – Thomas Hampson
Il Commendatore – Robert Holl
Donna Anna – Edita Gruberova
Don Ottavio – Hans Peter Blochwitz
Donna Elvira – Roberta Alexander
Leporello – László Polgár
Masetto – Anton Scharinger
Zerlina – Barbara Bonney

******Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, dir. Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1988)

******Painting: A Dance in the Country, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Chopin Etude Op 10 No.4 Valentina Lisitsa

  ValentinaLisitsa

 

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The CD with Chopin and Schumann Etudes Symphoniques is released on Decca now! 85 minutes+( plus 3 Nouvelles Etudes in digital album)

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Mozart / Divertimento in F major, K. 138

  scrymgeour34

Published on Mar 12, 2013

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Divertimento in F major for string quartet, K. 138/125c (1772)

00:00 – Allegro
03:38 – Andante
09:12 – Presto

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble (1984)

“Three early Mozart pieces, K. 137, 137 and 138, are labeled divertimentos on the manuscripts and are so listed in Grove. However, few Mozart scholars accept that tag as an accurate description of the works, and most doubt that the title came from Mozart. For one thing, a divertimento should have two minuets, and these three have none. At first glance they seem to be straightforward string quartets–yet many experts contend that they don’t sound at all like string quartets.

So what are they? Mozart scholar Alfred Einstein fancies them as small symphonies for strings, to which the composer was prepared to add extra parts for winds; they are sometimes known as the ‘Salzburg symphonies.’ Musicologist Hans Keller has given them the curious designation of ‘orchestral quartets.’ Others insist that they are indeed string quartets even if they lack the serious temper of that rarefied form. Yet (to complete the confusion) they are universally referred to as divertimentos–the one thing everyone agrees they are not.

Whatever they’re called, they are fine examples of Mozart’s early essays in chamber music…Mozart composed them in 1772, when he was 16, not long before leaving Salzburg on his third (and, as it turned out, his last) trip to Italy. He was going to Milan to produce the opera ‘Lucio Silla‘ on a commission from Count Firmian, governor-general of that city. He probably expected, from previous experience, to need music to entertain the count’s court while he was at work on the opera. So it seems likely that these three works were composed to meet that need. Mozart may have planned to present them with a small orchestra, as Einstein surmises, but here they are played by the four instruments of a string quartet.

The Divertimento in F, K. 138…is closer than [K. 136 & 137] to being what we now think of as a string quartet. The opening ‘Allegro’ is in the expansive style of the earlier pieces, but then the tone becomes more intimate. In the contemplative ‘Andante’ the first violin spins a melodic thread that ties all four strings into a close-knit, supportive quartet. This intricate ensemble work continues into the ‘Presto’ finale, a rondo that skips purposefully along with robust good humor.” – Harvey B. Loomis

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