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It's not like there hadn't been performances and recordings of the music of Zaide, Mozart's first Turkish singspiel, before. Although the work was left unfinished and unperformed in the composer's lifetime, its music has been accepted into the canon as a sort of trial run for The Abduction from the Seraglio from the following year. But performances of the complete Zaide music in context of its singspiel had always been considered essentially impossible since the spoken dialogue along with all traces of the plot were long since lost. Orchestral cellist turned early music conductor turned greatest living Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, having recorded nearly every other sung stage work of Mozart's over the years, turned in the composer's 250th anniversary year of 2006 to the unfinished Zaide. Outfitted with a new "topical" plot and dialogue, the work proves less a lighthearted entrainment and more a heavy-handed parody -- or perhaps it's just the conductor and the narrator. While the singers from soprano Diana Damrau through tenor Michael Schade to bass Anton Scharinger are more or less convincing in their roles, Harnoncourt seems to aim below Mozart's usual celestial level to the more mundane and Zaide's music seems more crude and even vulgar than Mozart's standard graceful and elegant style. Similarly, while Tobias Moretti's delivery is more or less straightforward with little of the dramatic enthusiasm that so often mars the performances of actors in singspiels, the story he spins is so unlike Mozart's music that it creates an insuperable gap between the words and the music, a gap that is as fatal to the success of this performance as Harnoncourt's direction. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's sound is crisp, clean, and realistic, sometimes, as in the first moments after the overture, disconcertingly so.
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Zaide, K. 344 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Michael Schade, Tenor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Michael Schade, Tenor - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Michael Schade, Tenor - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Michael Schade, Tenor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Florian Boesch, Baritone - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Michael Schade, Tenor - Florian Boesch, Baritone - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
DISC 2
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Rudolf Schasching, Tenor - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Anton Scharinger - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Rudolf Schasching, Tenor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Florian Boesch, Baritone - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor, Main Artist, Conductor - Michael Schade, Tenor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Florian Boesch, Baritone - Johann Schachtner, Librettist - Rudolf Schasching, Tenor - Diana Damrau, Soprano - Concentus Musicus Wien, Associated Performer
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Tobias Moretti, Main Artist, Speaker, Speaker - Johann Schachtner, Librettist
(P) 2006 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY) GmbH
Album review
It's not like there hadn't been performances and recordings of the music of Zaide, Mozart's first Turkish singspiel, before. Although the work was left unfinished and unperformed in the composer's lifetime, its music has been accepted into the canon as a sort of trial run for The Abduction from the Seraglio from the following year. But performances of the complete Zaide music in context of its singspiel had always been considered essentially impossible since the spoken dialogue along with all traces of the plot were long since lost. Orchestral cellist turned early music conductor turned greatest living Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, having recorded nearly every other sung stage work of Mozart's over the years, turned in the composer's 250th anniversary year of 2006 to the unfinished Zaide. Outfitted with a new "topical" plot and dialogue, the work proves less a lighthearted entrainment and more a heavy-handed parody -- or perhaps it's just the conductor and the narrator. While the singers from soprano Diana Damrau through tenor Michael Schade to bass Anton Scharinger are more or less convincing in their roles, Harnoncourt seems to aim below Mozart's usual celestial level to the more mundane and Zaide's music seems more crude and even vulgar than Mozart's standard graceful and elegant style. Similarly, while Tobias Moretti's delivery is more or less straightforward with little of the dramatic enthusiasm that so often mars the performances of actors in singspiels, the story he spins is so unlike Mozart's music that it creates an insuperable gap between the words and the music, a gap that is as fatal to the success of this performance as Harnoncourt's direction. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's sound is crisp, clean, and realistic, sometimes, as in the first moments after the overture, disconcertingly so.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 01:46:45
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment
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