Joseph Haydn: L'incontro improvviso

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Haydn may have lacked Mozart ’s genius as a dramatist, but any shortcomings on that front are compensated for by the beauty of the individual musical numbers. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 7th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: 555327-2
Label: CPO
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Opera

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Haydn: L'incontro improvviso, Hob. XXVIII:6

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Elisabeth Breuer, Bernhard Berchtold, Markus Miesenberger, Rafael Fingerlos, Anna Willerding, Michael Wagner, L'Orfeo Barockorchester (early music ensemble)
Michi Gaigg

1. No. 1 Sinfonia Adagio maestoso-Presto

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2. No. 4 Canzonetta "L'amore è un gran briccone"

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3. No. 5 Recitativo "Eccoci finalmente"

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4. No. 6 Aria "Castagno, castagna"

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5. No. 7 Recitativo "Che il diavolo vi porti"

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6. No. 8 Aria "Noi pariamo Santarelli"

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7. No. 9 Recitativo "Via dunque, sior buffone"

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8. No. 10 Aria "Quanto affetto mi sorprende"

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9. No. 11 Recitativo "Care, entrambe amiche mie"

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10. No. 12 Terzetto "Mi sembra un sogno"

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11. No. 13 Recitativo accompagnato "Indarno m'affano"

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12. No. 14 Aria "Deh! Se in ciel pietade avete"

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13. No. 15 Recitativo "Per ora insegnatemi"

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14. No. 16 Duetto "Castagno, castagna"

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15. No. 17 Recitativo "Osmin! Io ti conosco"

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16. No. 18 Aria "Che sian i Calandri filosofi pazzi"

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17. No. 19 Recitativo "Bell' incognito"

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18. No. 20 Aria "Siam femmine buonine"

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19. No. 21 Recitativo "Venite, signor"

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20. No. 22 Finale "Sangue d'un ginocchio storto!"

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1. No. 25 Recitativo "Prendi, Osmin"

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2. No. 26 Aria "Ho promesso oprar destrezza"

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3. No. 27 Recitativo "Giusti Cieli! che miro"

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4. No. 28a Recitativo "Ma come arrivaste qui in Cairo?"

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5. No. 29 Aria "Or vicina a te, mio cuore"

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6. No. 29a Recitativo "Prence, si può dir"

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7. No. 30 Aria "Il guerrier con armi avvolto"

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8. No 33 & 35 Recitativo "Dico e ridico"

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9. No. 36 Aria "Senti, al buio pian, pianino"

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10. No. 37 Recitativo "Come già dissi"

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11. No. 38 Duetto "Son quest'occhi un stral d'amore"

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12. No. 39 Finale "Presto andiamo"

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13. No. 40 Recitativo "Bisogna dunque"

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14. No. 41 Canzonetta "S'egli è vero, che dagli astri"

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15. No. 42 Recitativo "Principessa amabile!"

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16. No. 44 Recitativo secco ed accompagnato "Ah sorte traditora"

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17. No. 45 Intermezzo

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18. No. 45a Aria "Un cor si tenero"

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19. No. 46 Recitativo accompagnato "Ah signor!"

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20. No. 47 Coro Finale "Or gli affanni son svaniti"

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Joseph Haydn's opera L'incontro improvviso, which belongs to the genre of Turkish opera, was successfully performed at the Donaufestwochen 2019 in Grein in the castle courtyard with the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra conducted by Michi Gaigg and is now finally available on CD. Mostly, the 'Turkish opera' is about the liberation of previously kidnapped women from the seraglio, the palace of a sultan or other ruler. Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail has become most famous. Haydn's opera is set in Ottoman-ruled Egyptian Cairo and has gone down in the annals of music history as another "abduction" and, moreover, it keeps pace with the most outstanding sound creations of its time, sometimes even outstripping them by several lengths. A special feature of the score, which distinguishes it from those of Mozart's Abduction or the incidental music to Voltaire's Zaïre by the "Salzburg Haydn" Johann Michael, is the noticeably less militarily connoted use of the so-called 'Turkish music'. The latter - due to a special type of instrumentation - sometimes bears clear traits of Ottoman festive or dance music, as it was used, among other things, in the ceremonies of Middle Eastern dervish orders.

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September 2023

Haydn may have lacked Mozart ’s genius as a dramatist, but any shortcomings on that front are compensated for by the beauty of the individual musical numbers.

October 2023

L’incontro was pretty well served by the 1980 recording conducted by Antal Dorati in his Haydn opera series. This new version has its points, above all the spruce, wellturned playing of the period band under Michi Gaigg’s lively direction.

Joseph Haydn: L'incontro improvviso

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