Thomas Quasthoff sings Haydn Italian Arias

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…Thomas Quasthoff… puts a great deal into his performances, characterising the texts, especially the jovial or intendedly comic ones, with relish. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Jan 2009
Catalogue No: 4777469
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 62 minutes

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April 2009

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Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa, Hob. XXVIII:5 / Act 1

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Non v'è rimedio"

Track length3:31

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Haydn: Orlando paladino, Hob. XXVIII:11 / Act 2

Work length2:14

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Mille lampi d'accese faville"

Track length2:14

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Haydn: Orlando paladino, Hob. XXVIII:11 / Act 3

Work length2:27

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Ombre insepolte"

Track length2:27

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Haydn: Armida, Hob: XXVIII:12 / Act 1

Work length3:31

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Se dal suo braccio oppresso"

Track length3:31

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Haydn: Armida, Hob: XXVIII:12 / Act 2

Work length4:32

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Teco lo guida al campo"

Track length4:32

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Haydn: L'isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII:9 / Part 1

Work length4:09

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Chi nel cammin d'onore"

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Excerpt, Haydn: La fedeltà premiata

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Di questo audace ferro"

Track length3:22

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Haydn: La fedeltà premiata, Hob. XXVIII:10 / Act 1

Work length3:26

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Mi dica, il mio signore"

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Excerpt, Haydn: La fedeltà premiata

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Sappi, che la belleza"

Track length3:36

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Haydn: L'incontro improvviso, Hob. XXVIII:6 / Act 1

Work length4:51

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Noi pariamo santarelli"

Track length4:51

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Haydn: La vera costanza, Hob. XXVIII:8 / Act 1

Work length2:46

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Non sparate...mi disdico..."

Track length2:46

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Haydn: Il mondo della luna, Hob. XXVIII:7 / Act 2

Work length8:22

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

"Che mondo amabile"

Track length5:11

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"Non aver di me sospetto"

Track length3:11

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Haydn: Un cor sì tenero, Hob.XXIVb:11

Work length3:43

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Haydn: Dice benissimo chi si marita (für Salieris La scuola de' gelosi), Hob. XXIVb:5

Work length2:44

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Haydn: L'Anima del Filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Hob: XXVIII:13 / Act 3

Work length3:53

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Chi spira e non sprea (Creonte)

Track length3:53

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Haydn: L'Anima del Filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Hob: XXVIII:13 / Act 1

Work length3:05

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Il pensier sta negli aggotti (Creonte)

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Haydn: L'Anima del Filosofo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Hob: XXVIII:13 / Act 2

Work length2:13

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Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Golz
Recorded: 2008-07-22
Recording Venue: Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, Baden-Baden

Mai non sia inulto (Creonte)

Track length2:13

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Thomas Quasthoff’s great artistry needs no introduction. Here he follows up his much-raised Bach Cantatas recording with another project perfectly suited to his dark-hued, flexible voice. In anticipation of the forthcoming Haydn year – the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death falls in May 2009 – Quasthoff turns his attention to the Viennese master’s considerable operatic output, with an album of arias drawn from both Haydn’s comic and serious operas.

Making its Deutsche Grammophon debut on this album is the Freiburger Barockorchester, the internationally acclaimed period-instrument ensemble which regularly collaborates with Quasthoff and many other leading artists. This is music of the highest calibre. Haydn’s operatic works are a real rarity and with Thomas Quasthoff as their champion this will be one of the most unusual and intriguing albums of the year. It is a must-have for lovers of period-instrument performance, opera and baroque music – as well as for all those touched by Quasthoff’s musicianship.

The album release is timed to tie in with the first of 4 UK appearances which Quastoff will make during 2009 at London’s Barbican Centre.

Reviews

March 2009

…Thomas Quasthoff… puts a great deal into his performances, characterising the texts, especially the jovial or intendedly comic ones, with relish.

2010

'These arias are glorious music that give me more pleasure each time I sing them,' enthuses Thomas Quasthoff of his Haydn anniversary recital encompassing 11 roles from nine operas.
Judging the arias by Mozartian standards (unfair, but hard to avoid when the idiom is so similar), we might feel that Haydn's response to character and dramatic situation can occasionally seem too amiably non-committal. Far more often, though, Quasthoff's encomium is well justified, whether in the sharp comic portrayals of assorted dolts, lechers and buffoons, the sepulchral solo for the Stygian ferryman Caronte (Orlando Paladino), or the graceful cantabile arias for Creonte from the London opera L'anima del filosofo. If Haydn's operas are alien territory for you, the range and inventiveness of these arias (plus one duet) may come as a surprise.
Quasthoff's performances are vividly imagined and splendidly sung. He characterises each role with relish. As ever, he savours the sound and sense of the words, greedily gobbling up his consonants in the song of the gluttonous monk Calandro (L'incontro improvviso). In serious mode, he brings a gravely eloquent legato to the numbers for Caronte and Creonte, and commands both the height and the depth for the fine, dignified arias from Armida and L'isola disabitata.
Once or twice Quasthoff's softer singing sounds unsupported, starved of natural resonance.
Nit-pickers might also point to moments where he coarsens his tone in the name of dramatic intensity. But these are minor provisos.
Quasthoff has done a still-neglected corner of Haydn's output proud, and the rhythmically lively Freiburg period band match him all the way in colour and gusto.

April 2009

Quasthoff's performances are vividly imagined and splendidly sung. He characterises each role with relish… Quasthoff's top register - brighter and more tenorish than a decade ago - rings out freely in a mock-heroic number for the foppish braggart Perucchetto in La fedeltà premiata, portrayed to the life by Quasthoff. Quasthoff has done a still-neglected corner of Haydn's output proud, and the rhythmically lively Freiburg period band match him all the way in colour and gusto.

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