Grabmusik, Bastien und Bastienne
Classical Opera
- Label
- Signum Classics
- Catalogue number
- SIGCD 547
- EAN / barcode
- 0635212054727
- Release date
- 6 September 2018
- Type
- Album
More info
Continuing their complete Mozart opera recording cycle, Classical Opera's latest release shines a light on two early opera works by Mozart. Grabmusik was reported to be the product of a test set by the prince of Salzburg, who: "... not crediting that such masterly compositions were really those of a child, shut him up for a week, during which he was not permitted to see any one, and was left only with music paper, and the words of an oratorio ... During this short time he composed a very capital oratorio, which was most highly approved of upon being performed." Performed for Holy Week the title can be translated as 'Cantata on Christ's Grave' (literally 'Grave Music'), and the anonymous text takes the form of a dialogue between a tormented soul, who is desperately lamenting the tragedy of Christ's death, and an angel. Bastien und Bastienne is the only one of Mozart's operas to have been written for performance in a private house rather than a theatre. Commissioned at some point in mid-1768 by the renowned and controversial German physician Franz Anton Mesmer, it tells the tale of two young shepherds, Bastien and Bastienne, being reconciled in love the fortune teller and magician Collas after Bastien has briefly been lured away by the attractions of a noble lady from the city. This new recording uses Mozart's original 1767 setting of the libretto by F. W. Weiskern & J. H. F. Müller, the provenance of which was only established in 1980s.
Tracklist
- 01 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: Intrada 01:55
- 02 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 1: „Mein liebster Freund hat mich verlassen“ / „Bastien flieht mich“ 02:25
- 03 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 2: „Ich geh jetzt auf die Weide“ 01:34
- 04 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 3/4a: Auftritt des Colas / „Befraget mich ein zartes Kind“ 01:56
- 05 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 4b: „Guten Morgen, Herr Colas!“ 02:16
- 06 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 5: „Wenn mein Bastien einst im Scherze“ / „O, die Edelfrau vom Schloß“ 02:54
- 07 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 6: „Würd ich auch“ / „Gib dich zufrieden!“ 02:45
- 08 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 7: „Auf den Rat, den ich gegeben“ / „Na, versteck dich, Bastienne!“ 02:18
- 09 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 8: „Großen Dank dir abzustatten“ / „Es freut mich, daß du endlich“ 02:01
- 10 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 9: „Geh! du sagst mir eine Fabel“ / „Möglich! Trotzdem hat sie bereits“ ( 01:59
- 11 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 10: „Diggi, daggi“ „Ist die Hexerei zu Ende?“ 01:53
- 12 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 11: „Meiner Liebsten schöne Wangen“ / „Bastienne!“ 03:24
- 13 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 12: „Er war mir sonst treu“ / „Aber schau, Bastienne!“ 02:49
- 14 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 13: „Geh hin! - Ich will“ 06:13
- 15 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 14: „Dein Trotz vermehrt sich“ / „Und sollte ich wohl ein solcher Narr sein“ 01:09
- 16 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 15: „Geh! Herz von Flandern!“ 06:05
- 17 Bastien und Bastienne, KV 50: No. 16: „Kinder! Kinder!“ 03:36
Source: MusicBrainz
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