Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Remastered) Geraint Evans, Reri Grist, Teresa Berganza, Gabriel Bacquier, New Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Sinfonia
• 1 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Sinfonia 05:14
• Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1:
• 2 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Cinque... dieci... venti" (Figaro, Susanna) 03:06
• 3 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Cosa stai misurando" (Susanna, Figaro) 00:46
• 4 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Se a caso madama" (Figaro, Susanna) 02:58
• 5 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Or bene, ascolta e taci!" (Susanna, Figaro) 02:33
• 6 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Se vuol ballare" (Figaro) 02:49
• 7 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Ed aspettaste il giorno" (Bartolo, Marcellina) 01:02
• 8 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "La vendetta, oh la vendetta" (Bartolo) 03:53
• 9 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Tutto ancor non ho perso" (Marcellina, Susanna) 00:46
• 10 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Via resti servita" (Marcellina, Susanna) 02:50
• 11 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Va là, vecchia pedante" (Susanna, Cherubino) 01:45
• 12 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio" (Cherubino) 03:10
• 13 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Ah, son perduto!" (Cherubino, Susanna, Conte, Basilio) 03:38
• 14 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Cosa sento! Tosto andate" (Conte, Basilio, Susanna) 05:46
• 15 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Basilio, in traccia tosto" (Conte, Susanna, Cherubino, Basilio) 01:07
• 16 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Giovani liete, fiori spargete" (Coro) 01:25
• 17 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Cos’è questa commedia?” (Conte, Figaro, Susanna, Coro) 02:34
• 18 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Evviva!" (Figaro, Susanna, Basilio, Cherubino, Conte) 01:13
• 19 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 1: "Non più andrai" (Figaro) 04:13
• Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2:
• 20 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Porgi, amor" (Contessa) 04:22
• 21 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Vieni, cara Susanna" (Contessa, Susanna, Figaro) 03:43
• 22 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Quanto duolmi, Susanna" (Contessa, Susanna, Cherubino) 01:15
• 23 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Voi, che sapete" (Cherubino) 03:28
• 24 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Bravo! Che bella voce!" (Contessa, Susanna, Cherubino) 01:04
• 25 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Venite, inginocchiatevi" (Susanna) 03:18
• 26 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Quante buffonerie!" (Contessa, Susanna, Cherubino, Conte) 02:32
• 27 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Che novità" (Conte, Contessa) 01:14
• 28 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Susanna, or via sortite" (Conte, Contessa, Susanna) 03:48
• 29 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Dunque voi non aprite" (Conte, Contessa) 01:08
• 30 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Aprite, presto, aprite" (Susanna, Cherubino) 01:27
• 31 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Tutto è come il lasciai" (Conte, Contessa) 01:18
• 32 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Esci ormai, garzon malnato" (Conte, Contessa) 03:12
• 33 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Signore! Cos’è quell stupore?" (Susanna, Conte, Contessa) 05:55
• 34 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Signori, di fuori son già i suonatori" (Figaro, Conte, Susanna, Contessa) 03:53
• 35 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Ah! Signor, signor" - "Cosà e stato?" (Antonio, Conte, Susanna, Contessa, Figaro) 06:31
• 36 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 2: "Voi signor, che giusto siete" (Marcellina, Basilio, Bartolo, Susanna, Contessa, Figaro, Conte) 04:56
• Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3:
• 37 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Che imbarazzo è mai questo" (Conte, Contessa, Susanna) 02:19
• 38 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Crudel! Perché finora" (Conte, Susanna) 03:05
• 39 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "E perché fosti meco" (Conte, Susanna, Figaro) 00:46
• 40 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Hai già vinta la causa!" - "Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro" (Conte) 05:18
• 41 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "E decisa la lite" (Curzio, Marcellina, Figaro, Conte, Bartolo) 01:56
• 42 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Riconosci in quest’amplesso" (Marcellina, Figaro, Bartolo, Curzio, Conte, Susanna) 05:46
• 43 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Eccovi, o caro amico" (Marcellina, Bartolo, Susanna, Figaro) 01:11
• 44 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Andiam, andiam, bel paggio" (Barbarina, Cherubino) 00:39
• 45 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "E Susanna non vieni" - "Dove sono i bei momenti" (Contessa) 07:23
• 46 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Io vi dico, signor" (Antonio, Conte) 00:26
• 47 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Cosa mi narri?" (Contessa, Susanna) 00:33
• 48 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Sull’aria" (Susanna, Contessa) 03:09
• 49 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Piegato è il foglio" (Susanna, Contessa) 00:23
• 50 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Ricevete, o padroncina" (Coro) 01:28
• 51 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Queste sono, Madama" (Barbarina, Contessa, Susanna, Antonio, Conte, Cherubino, Figaro) 02:55
• 52 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Ecco la marcia, andiamo!" (Figaro, Susanna, Conte, Contessa) 02:10
• 53 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: "Amanti costanti" (Due contadine, Coro, Conte, Figaro) 05:39
• Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4:
• 54 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "L’ho perduta, me meschina!" (Barbarina) 01:45
• 55 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Barbarina, cos’hai?" (Figaro, Barbarina) 01:16
• 56 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Madre!, Figlio!" (Figaro, Marcellina) 00:46
• 57 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Son quelli che invitasti a venir" (Basilio, Bartolo, Figaro) 01:23
• 58 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "In quegli anni" (Basilio) 04:56
• 59 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Tutto è disposto" - "Aprite un po’ quegli occhi" (Figaro) 04:50
• 60 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Signora, ella mi disse" (Susanna, Marcellina, Contessa, Figaro) 01:00
• 61 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Giunse alfin il momento" - "Deh vieni, non tardar" (Susanna) 05:37
• 62 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Perfida! E in quella forma meco mentia?" (Figaro, Cherubino, Contessa) 00:35
• 63 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Pian pianin, le andrò più presso" (Cherubino, Contessa, Figaro, Susanna) 03:22
• 64 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Partito è alfin l’audace" (Conte, Contessa, Figaro, Susanna) 03:02
• 65 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Tutto è tranquille e placido" (Figaro, Susanna) 03:59
• 66 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Pace, pace, mio dolce tesoro" (Figaro, Susanna, Conte) 02:11
• 67 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 4: "Gente, gente, all’armi, all’armi!” (Conte, Figaro, Basilio, Curzio, Antonio, Bartolo, Susanna, Barbarina, Cherubino, Marcellina, Contessa) 05:17
• Total Runtime 03:08:57

Info for Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Remastered)

This legendary album is finally made available to digital partners, as part of Warner's Otto Klemperer retrospective! The conductor, a refined Mozartian whose opera cycle is a milestone of discography, is surrounded by an amazing vocal cast, including the young Margaret Price and Kiri Te Kanawa in minor roles making one of their earliest appearances on record.

Despite having a tempo that is too fast for some of the arias, the recording features such a stellar voice cast that perfect absolution from Mozart has been conferred! The voices were all lyrical-singers of the highest quality, and they so complemented each other that you can literally HEAR the different voice both separately AND in harmony. Just as Mozart would’ve intended. There isn’t one single wobbly note anywhere, every singing is pure as the heavenly music of Mozart could be.

I bought this because Barbara Bonney sang the lead role of Susanna. And what can I say? That woman’s voice should be illegal. It’s incredible what such a little Soubrette but angelic soprano could do with her singing. I literally can listen through the recitatives because of her. When she sings parts that are meant to be dramatic, she never goes over the top but her technique is just astounding. When she harmonizes with other voices, her voice touches all the right places, it literally accommodates the other voices just like an instrument would, you can hear her as clearly as you can hear the other voices. Someone I’ve came across once said that only Barbara Bonney can interpret Mozart. At first I thought (as anyone would): that’s an exaggerated statement to make! But after getting into listening to her, I would have to agree. She is the star that was destined to fall with the star of Mozart. She was just (exactly!) 200 years behind, and yet, mankind benefited from this!

Petteri Salomaa is just as good as Bryn Terfel in singing Figaro, perfect phrasing.

Arlene Auger was also clearly chosen in order to harmonize with the rest of the voice cast. She has a lighter voice than most well-known Contessas such as Renee Fleming or Kiri Te Kanawa. But her voice fits perfectly with the other voices, and it is beautiful. If they had cast a stronger mature voice it would’ve fell out of place.

Another thing I was worried about initially reading the reviews is that the voices were all not loud enough for you to hear. But it was not so at all. In fact, I had much less trouble listening to this recording in terms of volume than the recent purchased recording of La Traviata with Contrubas and Domingo, or Turandot with Domingo. Because in those recording the volumes are just not even. For example Domingo and the music are much louder than some of the lead singing arias (I could barely hear Contrubas when she sang the “Piange…Piange…” duet, she just whispered the song and I couldn’t hear a thing). In Le Nozze di Figaro, everybody sang on approximately the same volume on the average, so you just need to crank up the volume to a listenable range, and just leave it there. No problem whatsoever.

The only singing that was not completely on par is the singing of Basilio. Feller has the right voice, but bad interpretation. Some of the phrases do not need to be in pianssimo at all but he sang pianssimo, which actually inhibited some of the most beautifully sweeping music of Mozart. For example when he sings “perdonate, oh mio signor,” there is no reason why “perdonate” should be in such a pianssimo mode. Musically, the sweeping upward and increasing the dynamics into mezzo-forte on that last note in that phrase would carry the music better. Feller sang all of his parts way too gently even though he had such a nice timbre.

But regardless, I would say that this recording IS the definition of Mozart: lyrical yet emotive, light yet heavenly. If you have to have one recordings from Mozart, this would be it. I also love the fact that there is a booklet included that has all of the libretto in four languages: Italian, English, German and French. So you could literally pick up some Italian listening along.

Geraint Evans, baritone (Figaro)
Annelies Burmeister, mezzo-soprano (Marcellina)
Gabriel Bacquier, baritone (Count Almaviva)
Reri Grist, soprano (Susanna)
Henry Smith, harpsichord
Michael Langdon, bass (Bartolo)
Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano (Cherubino)
Werner Hollweg, tenor (Basilio)
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano (Countess)
Clifford Grant, bass (Antonio)
Dame Margaret Price, soprano (Barbarina)
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (Maiden)
Willi Brokmeier, tenor (Don Curzio)
Teresa Cahill, soprano (Maiden)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer, conductor

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