Libertà!: Mozart & The Opera

Pichon’s approach is ingenious…Sabine Devieilhe is the show’s star. Her distinctive soprano excels not only in the fiery passage work of ‘Da Schlagt’ (from Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor) but... — BBC Music Magazine, **** (Performance) / ***** (Recording) More…

Release Date: 10th Jan 2020
Catalogue No: HMM93263839
Label: Harmonia Mundi

Presto Editor's Choice

August 2019
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Mozart: Lo sposo deluso, K430: Overture

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Ah che ridere! (from La sposo deluso)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Dove mai trovar qual ciglio? (from Lo sposo deluso)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Paisiello: Saper bramate (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Caro bell'idol mio, K562

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Ogni momento dicon le donne (from L'Oca del Cairo)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Ridente la calma, K152

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Spiegarti non poss'io, K489

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Se lontan, ben mio, K438

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345: Overture

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Raphaël Pichon

Soler, V M: Una cosa rara: O quando un si bel giubilo

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Così dunque tradisci … Aspri rimorsi atroci, K432

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Nascoso e il mio sol, K557

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Vado, ma dove? oh Dei!, K583

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Per pieta, non ricercate KV 420

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: No, che non sei capace, K419

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Corpo di Satanasso! (from L'oca del Cairo, K422)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Ne pulvis et cinis (from Thamos, König in Ägypten, K345)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, KV 345: entr'acte

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, K486: Overture

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Warnung 'Männer suchen stehts zu naschen', K433

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Io ti lascio, oh cara, addio, KAnh. 245

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Da schlägt die Abschiedsstunde (from Der Schauspieldirektor)

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Raphaël Pichon

Salieri: Con mille smanie al core (from La scuola de' gelosi)

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Raphaël Pichon

Salieri: Son le donne sopraffine (from La scuola de' gelosi)

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Ah che accidenti! (from Lo sposo deluso)

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Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Piu non si trovano, K549

Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon

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Interview, Raphaël Pichon on Libertà!

9th September 2019

The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.

Between Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the advent of the famous Da Ponte trilogy, Mozart threw himself frantically into the search for the right libretto, capable of taking the spectator to lands still unexplored where the drama and the psychology of the characters would be sublimated by the music.

Hence, in the years between 1782 and 1786, Mozart set up a veritable laboratory for dramatic music: a musical corpus of concert arias, sketches and stylistic exercises like the canon - brilliantly organised here as an imaginary dramma giocoso in three scenes, each heralding in its own way one of the summits to come: Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così…

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(Performance) / * (Recording)

Pichon’s approach is ingenious…Sabine Devieilhe is the show’s star. Her distinctive soprano excels not only in the fiery passage work of ‘Da Schlagt’ (from Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor) but also in the legato warmth of ‘Ridente la calma’…The orchestral playing throughout is texturally clear, musically fluent and theatrically apt.

Awards Issue 2019

Beautifully performed and thoroughly enjoyable…The three overtures go with a swing, the fiery Thamos overture being especially suitable for ‘The Debauchee Punished’…Whether or not you go along with Pichon’s meta-operas, this is an excellent selection that shows Mozart preparing for the three comic masterpieces.

February 2020

The period ensemble’s characterful playing is given a clear sense of direction by its artistic director…Chest and the chorus are thrilling in an extraordinary arrangement of an extract from Thamos

August 2019

An electrifying portrait of a composer on the cusp of greatness...ensembles from L’oca del Cairo and Lo sposo deluso crackle with energy and the more familiar concert arias are brilliantly sung, but the unaccompanied canons are the real pearls. A definite Record of the Year for me.

1st September 2019

While the logic of the whole may not be purist, it’s totally ingenious and brilliantly delivered.

Opera Now October 2019

It is a fascinating premise: Mozart underwent great personal and artistic change from 1782-86 and produced a wealth of vocal material that Pichon has drawn on for this project. Six singers share the roles with dazzling results. Sabine Devieilhe gets star billing, but to be ungallant I must single out Siobhán Stagg: her soprano is creamy yet pellucid, even- toned and beguiling. Pichon builds the tension and the recorded sound is excellent.

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