Special offer. Mysliveček: Adamo ed Eva
Valerio Contaldo (Adamo), Luciana Mancini (Eva), Roberta Mameli (Angelo di Giustizia), Alice Rossi (Angelo di Misericordia)
Il Gardellino, Peter Van Heyghen
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
Mysliveček’s setting is unfailingly attractive, but is overly generous in some extended arias and rarely penetrates the story’s darker side. Peter Van Heyghen directs Il Gardelino with vigour,...
Special offer. Mysliveček: Adamo ed Eva
Valerio Contaldo (Adamo), Luciana Mancini (Eva), Roberta Mameli (Angelo di Giustizia), Alice Rossi (Angelo di Misericordia)
Il Gardellino, Peter Van Heyghen
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
Mysliveček’s setting is unfailingly attractive, but is overly generous in some extended arias and rarely penetrates the story’s darker side. Peter Van Heyghen directs Il Gardelino with vigour,...
About
“Full of fire, spirit and life.” is how Mozart described this work of his contemporary, presented here for the first time on this new 2CD set.
Mozart’s positive verdict on Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) was intended to make the listener aware, for the fact that the extremely critical Salzburg composer expresses himself positively about a colleague is an absolute exception.
His oratorio Adamo & Eva, performed in Florence in 1771, was composed at precisely the time when contact with the Mozart family seemed to have been particularly close.
The work presented by Il Gardellino alongside soloists Valerio Contaldo, Luciana Mancini, Roberta Mameli and Alice Rossiunder and under the direction of Peter van Heyghen, gives a good impression of what Mozart appreciated about Myslivecek’s music: melodic ingenuity as well as transparency and lightness of musical language. Highly Recommended.
Contents and tracklist
- Valerio Contaldo, Luciana Mancini, Roberta Mameli, Alice Rossi
- Il Gardellino
- Peter Van Heyghen
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJune 2019
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Vocal
October 2019
Mysliveček’s setting is unfailingly attractive, but is overly generous in some extended arias and rarely penetrates the story’s darker side. Peter Van Heyghen directs Il Gardelino with vigour, and the solo performances are superb. Valerio Contaldo brings an arresting expressive range to the tortured Adam and he is well matched by Luciana Mancini’s Eve.
October 2019
Period band Il Gardellino are bright and pungent under director Peter Van Heyghen…If Mysliveček lacks the emotional range of his younger friend Mozart, he makes up for it with plenty of colour and easy melodies…An attractive work, if Adamo ed Eva doesn’t quite banish memories of Mysliveček’s more secular pursuits, it adds a welcome new spiritual dimension to man and musician.
June 2019
What a find this is, and what great advocacy it receives from all concerned: the Italian-domiciled Czech composer’s 1771 oratorio focuses on the immediate aftermath of The Fall, exploring Adam and Eve’s psychological anguish and conflict in vivid detail. If the libretto is perhaps overly exegetical in places, the music is unabashedly operatic: tenor Valerio Contaldo is especially impressive in Adam’s often ferociously florid arias.
