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January 23rd, 2013, 11:05 AM
Related threads: Favorite Opera Conductors (http://operalively.com/forums/showthread.php/1484-Favorite-Opera-Conductors)
According to Robert Poliqun’s on-line Mozart catalog (http://alambix.uquebec.ca/musique/catal/mozart/mozwa05.html), we can count about 15 operas, operates or dramas with song of all sorts composed by Mozart. Along with most of these, we have the obligatory orchestral overture or sinfonia that opens the work. Today’s OTF proposes a number of these in a YouTube playlist.
These works range from early teenage works (dating 1767 or 68) up until his great operas from the early 1790’s. Whereas the earlier sinfonias are somewhat predictable and formulaic (following the tradition of the era), his later overtures stand out as excellent orchestral works, which stand up on their own rather remarkably.
About half of the works are vinyl transfers from my personal music collection, from a vintage DG album featuring German conductor Karl Böhm (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/karl-b%C3%B6hm-mn0000182286), renowned not only as a great opera conductor, but something of a specialist of German works from the classical era.
Which ones are your favourites? Do you have other interpretations you’d like to share?
DETAILS
Stage Overtures by Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50
(Uncredited)
La Finta Semplice, K. 51
Orchestra da Camera San Giorgio
Andrea Fornaciari, Conducting
Idomeneo, Rè di Creta, K. 366
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung , Conducting
La clemenza di Tito, K. 621
Haagsche Serenata
Ernst Wauer, Conducting
La finta giardiniera, K. 196
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, Conducting
Mitridate Re di Ponto, K. 87
Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto
Francesco Ommassini, Conducting
Der Schauspeildirektor , K. 486
Staatskapelle Dresden
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Don Giovanni, K. 527
Orchestra of the Národní divadlo v Praze
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Cosi fan tutte, K. 588
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail , K. 384
Staatskapelle Dresden
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Die Zauberflote , K. 620
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Playlist URL: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6swnss9F7SH7y4DTHqeqEIk7ipV-7baO
January 25 2013, "I Think You Will Love This Music Too" will feature a new podcast "Brahms Festival, Part 4" at its Pod-O-Matic Channel (http://itywltmt.podomatic.com/). Read more January 25 on the ITYWLTMT Blogspot blog (http://itywltmt.blogspot.ca/).
According to Robert Poliqun’s on-line Mozart catalog (http://alambix.uquebec.ca/musique/catal/mozart/mozwa05.html), we can count about 15 operas, operates or dramas with song of all sorts composed by Mozart. Along with most of these, we have the obligatory orchestral overture or sinfonia that opens the work. Today’s OTF proposes a number of these in a YouTube playlist.
These works range from early teenage works (dating 1767 or 68) up until his great operas from the early 1790’s. Whereas the earlier sinfonias are somewhat predictable and formulaic (following the tradition of the era), his later overtures stand out as excellent orchestral works, which stand up on their own rather remarkably.
About half of the works are vinyl transfers from my personal music collection, from a vintage DG album featuring German conductor Karl Böhm (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/karl-b%C3%B6hm-mn0000182286), renowned not only as a great opera conductor, but something of a specialist of German works from the classical era.
Which ones are your favourites? Do you have other interpretations you’d like to share?
DETAILS
Stage Overtures by Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Bastien und Bastienne, K. 50
(Uncredited)
La Finta Semplice, K. 51
Orchestra da Camera San Giorgio
Andrea Fornaciari, Conducting
Idomeneo, Rè di Creta, K. 366
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung , Conducting
La clemenza di Tito, K. 621
Haagsche Serenata
Ernst Wauer, Conducting
La finta giardiniera, K. 196
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, Conducting
Mitridate Re di Ponto, K. 87
Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto
Francesco Ommassini, Conducting
Der Schauspeildirektor , K. 486
Staatskapelle Dresden
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Don Giovanni, K. 527
Orchestra of the Národní divadlo v Praze
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Cosi fan tutte, K. 588
Wiener Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail , K. 384
Staatskapelle Dresden
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Die Zauberflote , K. 620
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm, Conducting
Playlist URL: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6swnss9F7SH7y4DTHqeqEIk7ipV-7baO
January 25 2013, "I Think You Will Love This Music Too" will feature a new podcast "Brahms Festival, Part 4" at its Pod-O-Matic Channel (http://itywltmt.podomatic.com/). Read more January 25 on the ITYWLTMT Blogspot blog (http://itywltmt.blogspot.ca/).