Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

Diana Damrau (Konstanze), Anna Prohaska (Blonde), Rolando Villazón (Belmonte), Paul Schweinester (Pedrillo), Franz-Josef Selig (Osmin) &Thomas Quasthoff (Selim)

Vocalensemble Rastatt & Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

there is some passionate singing here, as well as sparkling instrumental detail...The cast is of a very high standard, though Villazón, despite being superbly lyrical, can lack a certain pliant... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Jul 2015
Catalogue No: 4794064
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

13th July 2015

Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

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Rolando Villazón (tenor), Paul Schweinester (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Franz-Josef Selig (bass (vocal)), Thomas Quasthoff (speaker), Holger Speck (chorus master)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vocalensemble Rastatt
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Recorded: 2014-07-16
Recording Venue: Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden

Ouvertüre

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Nr. 1 Arie: "Hier soll ich dich denn sehen" ... "Aber wie soll ich in den Palast kommen?"

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Nr. 2 Lied und Duett: "Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden" … "Verwünscht seist du"

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"Nun, wie steht's, Osmin?"

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Nr. 3 Arie: "Solche hergelaufne Laffen"

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"Geh nur, verwünschter Aufpasser!"

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Nr. 4 Rezitativ und Arie: "Konstanze, dich wiederzusehen … O wie ängstlich, o wie feurig"

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"Geschwind, geschwind auf die Seite!" ... Nr. 5a Marsch

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Nr. 5b Chor der Janitscharen: "Singt dem großen Bassa Lieder"

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"Immer noch traurig, geliebte Konstanze"

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Nr. 6 Arie: "Ach ich liebte, war so glücklich"

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"Halt ein, nicht ein Wort!" ... "Herr! Verzeih, dass ich es wage" ... "Triumph, Triumph, Herr!"

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Nr. 7 Terzett: "Marsch, marsch, marsch! Trollt euch fort!"

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"O des Zankens, Befehlens und Murrens"

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Nr. 8 Arie: "Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln"

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"Zärtlichkeit? Schmeicheln?"

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Nr. 9 Duett: "Ich gehe, doch rate ich dir … O Engländer! Seid ihr nicht Toren"

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"Wie traurig das gute Mädchen daherkommt!"

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Nr. 10 Rezitativ und Arie: "Welcher Wechsel herrscht in meiner Seele"

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"Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose"

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"Mein bestes Fräulein, noch immer so traurig?" ... "Nun, Konstanze, denkst du meinem Begehren nach?"

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Nr. 11 Arie: "Martern aller Arten"

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"Ist das ein Traum?"

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"Pst, pst, Blondchen!"

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Nr. 12 Arie: "Welche Wonne, welche Lust"

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"Dass es schon vorbei wäre" ... Nr. 13 Arie: "Frisch zum Kampfe! Frisch zum Streite!"

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"Ha! Geht's hier so lustig zu?"

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Nr. 14 Duett: "Vivat Bacchus! Bacchus lebe!"

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"Wahrhaftig, das muss ich gestehen, es geht doch nichts über den Wein!" ... "Ach, kommen Sie, Herr!"

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Nr. 15 Arie: "Wenn der Freude Tränen fließen"

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Nr. 16 Quartett: "Ach, Belmonte! Ach, mein Leben!"

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"O Konstanze, je näher der Augenblick kommt"

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Nr. 17 Arie: "Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke"

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"Alles liegt auf dem Ohr" ... Nr. 18 Romanze: "In Mohrenland gefangen war"

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"Wie ängstlich schlägt mein Herz " ... "Blondchen? Blondchen? Gift und Dolch!"

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Nr. 19 Arie: "Ho, wie will ich triumphieren"

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"Was gibt's, Osmin?"

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Nr. 20 Rezitativ und Duett: "Welch ein Geschick! O Qual der Seele!"

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"Meinetwegen sollst du sterben!"

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"Nun, zitterst du? Erwartest du dein Urteil?"

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Nr. 21a Vaudeville: "Nie werd' ich deine Huld verkennen"

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Nr. 21b Chor der Janitscharen: "Bassa Selim lebe lange"

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Recording of the Week, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

13th July 2015

Katherine listens to Yannick Nézet-Séguin's new performance of Mozart's cross-continental comedy.

The third of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón, in collaboration with Festspielhaus Baden Baden, U-Live, and sponsored by ROLEX.

The release follows up a “completely enthralling” (Opernglas) Così fan tutte and “the most exciting and consistently well-sung Don Giovanni for some years” (Opera) with another Baden-Baden Festival Mozart production,Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this similarly acclaimed 2014 Entführung aus dem Serail: “Well-deserved cheers for all participants” (Online Musik Magazin).

It was recorded live in the stunning venue of Festspielhaus Baden Baden and features a star cast full of critically-acclaimed artists – including Diana Damrau, the reigning Konstanze of our time – with an extraordinary strong showing of Deutsche Grammophon artists.

Reviews

October 2015

there is some passionate singing here, as well as sparkling instrumental detail...The cast is of a very high standard, though Villazón, despite being superbly lyrical, can lack a certain pliant tenderness...Damrau is at her very best in the defiant aria 'Marten aller Arten'...Also, we get some very effective singing from Anna Prohaska as Blonde who reaches her high E in 'Durch Zärtlichkeit' with aplomb.

17th July 2015

interesting, but never exaggerated musicianship...Villazón is a fixture and features here as a vivid Belmonte of not quite the right vocal colours. Neither he nor Diana Damrau’s sometimes shrill Konstanze is ideal, but the others...are keen personalities and all well cast.

Once again, Nézet-Séguin shows how good he is in Mozart. His speeds are well judged, never too fast for the singers to articulate clearly. And he has the knack of bringing out detail without sounding fussy...In his first German role, Villazón sounds assured, both in speech and song...Blonde presents many challenges, and Prohaska meets them all.

13th July 2015

With her flexible silvery tone and diamond-bright upper extension Diana Damrau is pretty much my ideal in the demanding role of Konstanze...Prohaska eschews arch simpering in favour of a cool, no-nonsense imperiousness that audibly takes the wind out of Osmin’s sails...What a luxury it is to have the great German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff (recently retired from singing) in the spoken role of Pasha Selim.

12th July 2015

this is the most satisfactory instalment so far of DG’s projected recordings of [Villazon] surmounts the difficulties, if not effortlessly, then with more than credit. Damrau makes light of Konstanze’s bravura challenges, but her sound can turn steely and fierce...Anna Prohaska and Paul Schweinester are an attractive comic pair, Franz-Josef Selig is the best Osmin on disc since Kurt Moll...The set’s success is guaranteed by Nézet-Séguin’s airy conducting of a full edition.

8th July 2015

There’s a bouncy enthusiasm to Nézet-Séguin’s approach, with its wide, dynamic contrasts, but not a great deal of subtlety, though the COE is its usual cultivated and alert self...The sense of style that’s missing in Villazón’s singing is emphasised by the other tenor, Paul Schweinester as Pedrillo, and especially by Diana Damrau as Konstanze.

4th August 2015

The casting is largely excellent. Diana Damrau makes an imperious Konstanze...Schweinester is as bright as a button as Pedrillo, leaving Rolando Villazón as the only significant drawback...what lifts the recording into the top league is undoubtedly the quality of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s conducting. From the first bars of the playful overture, he captures all the score’s bravado and energy

10th July 2015

[Damrau] delivers the best Martern aller Arten I’ve heard for yonks: a delicious compendium of tangled emotions, gloriously matched by virtuosic instrumental playing...Singing with great sensuality and perhaps even flutier top notes, Anna Prohaska makes a spirited Blonde...[Villazon] sings Belmonte with bluff vigour and a fine, metallic ring to the voice.

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