Complete Mozart Edition Volume 12
Here is a solidly presented disc accompanied by a 95-page booklet, comprising Vol. 27 of the Philips Complete Mozart Edition. The boy Mozart wrote Bastien und Bustienne, his German Singspiel, in 1768 in response to a commission from Dr Mesmer, the founder of hypnotism, and it may have had its premiere in his house in Vienna that autumn. Nextstep microstepping drive manual. The French-sounding names of its principals are explained by the story's origin in a piece by Rousseau.
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The composer wrote the piece for tenor and soprano, but here two trebles sing the roles of the two lovers, while a boy alto is the 'pretended sorcerer' Colas. This is without historical justification, but since they are from the Vienna Boys' Choir and the only characters, I am perfectly happy for this to be so. They are delightful and characterful singers who put over the dialogue with charm and mostly with intelligence, though Georg Nigh muffs a line on track 15. I see that in 1987 SS found a 'samishness' and 'sexlessness' in the voices and felt that the young artists placed the opera on a puerile level. However, I note neither of those things, and what's wrong with young singers in a work written by a 12-year-old boy? As for the music, it has enough invention to make for worthwhile listening.
Try Colas's orchestral entry on track 4 and hear Mozart using the Lydian mode to signify a mood that is both pastoral and strange, while his C minor nonsense aria 'Diggi, daggi' on track 11 shows a born musical dramatist successfully spreading his wings. There's good orchestral support and recorded sound, and the fill-up of two songs with mandolin provides a pleasant bonus.- Gramophone 5/1992Works on This Recording. A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that is transferred to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. A cookie enables our system to recognize your browser and allows us to keep your session intact on ArkivMusic.com. This means, for example, that we can keep track of items you've placed in your shopping cart while you continue to look for other products throughout the site. We will never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that did not originate from ArkivMusic.com.