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Greco-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis had caused quite a controversy in the operatic world. Settling in the provincial city of Perm, he formed a historical-instrument (although hardly a historical-performance) group called MusicAeterna and shaped it to reflect his unique musical visions. This release is one of a group of three devoted to Mozart's operas with libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte, whom Currentzis regards as a kind of revolutionary comparable to the most outrageous figures in rock music, and his reading of Così fan tutte is explicitly rock-influenced. This doesn't mean that there are guitars or electric instruments, but listen to some of the overture for an idea: blazing speed, slashing attacks that include bow noise from the strings, and a heavy continuo in the recitatives that at times includes a hurdy-gurdy. Plainly there is no historical evidence for such a practice, and it's safe to say that Currentzis' reading is not the music Mozart heard in his head. There are some pretty well-known singers on this release, including soprano Simone Kermes as Fiordiligi, but they function pretty much as cogs in Currentzis' machinery. The recitatives have a fascinating skittery quality, and when Currentzis does let up on the hell-for-leather intensity, he creates beautifully delicate slow arias. Opinions, both critical and audience-formed, on Currentzis are sharply polarized, and this release will do nothing to change that situation. His backers include the executive staff at Sony Classical, who provide a luxurious hardbound book with libretto of the kind previously only seen on labels that get government support, and sprang for a studio recording in Russia (the edgy sound is well-matched to the concept). Listener reactions to this are necessarily going to be highly subjective, but note that this recording has one trait common to many paradigm-shifting performances: the players seem to be having a great deal of fun, even if (or perhaps because) they probably had to unlearn everything they had been trained in so that they could follow their conductor's instructions.
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Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K. 588 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Konstantin Wolff - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Konstantin Wolff - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
DISC 2
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Simone Kermes, Soprano - Malena Ernman, Soprano - Christopher Maltman - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Teodor Currentzis, Conductor, Main Artist - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Christopher Maltman - Lorenzo Da Ponte, Librettist - Kenneth Tarver, Tenor - Anna Kasyan, Soprano - Konstantin Wolff - MusicAeterna, Associated Performer - Nicolas Bartholomée, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Producer - Maximilien Ciup, Recording Engineer - Damien Quintard, Editor - Florent Olliver, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Greco-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis had caused quite a controversy in the operatic world. Settling in the provincial city of Perm, he formed a historical-instrument (although hardly a historical-performance) group called MusicAeterna and shaped it to reflect his unique musical visions. This release is one of a group of three devoted to Mozart's operas with libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte, whom Currentzis regards as a kind of revolutionary comparable to the most outrageous figures in rock music, and his reading of Così fan tutte is explicitly rock-influenced. This doesn't mean that there are guitars or electric instruments, but listen to some of the overture for an idea: blazing speed, slashing attacks that include bow noise from the strings, and a heavy continuo in the recitatives that at times includes a hurdy-gurdy. Plainly there is no historical evidence for such a practice, and it's safe to say that Currentzis' reading is not the music Mozart heard in his head. There are some pretty well-known singers on this release, including soprano Simone Kermes as Fiordiligi, but they function pretty much as cogs in Currentzis' machinery. The recitatives have a fascinating skittery quality, and when Currentzis does let up on the hell-for-leather intensity, he creates beautifully delicate slow arias. Opinions, both critical and audience-formed, on Currentzis are sharply polarized, and this release will do nothing to change that situation. His backers include the executive staff at Sony Classical, who provide a luxurious hardbound book with libretto of the kind previously only seen on labels that get government support, and sprang for a studio recording in Russia (the edgy sound is well-matched to the concept). Listener reactions to this are necessarily going to be highly subjective, but note that this recording has one trait common to many paradigm-shifting performances: the players seem to be having a great deal of fun, even if (or perhaps because) they probably had to unlearn everything they had been trained in so that they could follow their conductor's instructions.
© TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 76 track(s)
- Total length: 02:56:55
- 1 Digital booklet
- 1 Video clip
- Main artists: Teodor Currentzis
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical Opera Full Operas
(P) 2014 Sony Music Entertainment
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