Classical Opera, Ian Page - Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione (2017)
Artist: Classical Opera, Ian Page
Title: Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Signum Records
Genre: Classical, Opera
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:48:14
Total Size: 488 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Signum Records
Genre: Classical, Opera
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:48:14
Total Size: 488 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1:
01. Overtura
02. Recitativo: Vieni e siegui i miei passi
03. No.1 - Aria: Risolver non osa
04. Recitativo: Giusta è la tua richiesta
05. No.2 - Aria: Lieve sono al par del vento
06. Recitativo: Dunque ove son?
07. No.3 - Aria: Ciglio che al sol si gira
08. Recitativo: E quali abitatori
09. No.4 - Coro: Germe di cento eroi
10. Recitativo: Numi, è vero o m'inganno?
11. No.5 - Aria: Se vuoi che te raccolgano
12. Recitativo: Se qui vivon gli eroi
13. No.6 - Aria: Voi colaggiù ridete
CD 2:
01. Recitativo: Publio, padre
02. No.7 - Aria: Quercia annosa su l'erte pendici
03. Recitativo: Giacchè al voler
04. No.8 - Aria: A chi serena io miro
05. Recitativo: E a sì enorme possanza
06. No. 9 - Aria: Biancheggia in mar lo scoglio
07. Recitativo: Non più. Bella Constanza
08. No.10 - Aria: Dì' che sei l'arbitra del mondo intero
09. Recitativo accompagnato: E v'è mortal che ardisca
10. Recitativo: Non è Scipio, o signore
11. No.11 - Aria: Ah perchè cercar degg'io
12. No.12 - Coro: Cento volte con lieto sembiante
13. Appendix - No.11 - Aria: Ah perchè cercar degg'io (original version)
Performers:
Scipione Stuart Jackson tenor
Costanza Klara Ek soprano
Fortuna Soraya Mafi soprano
Publio Krystian Adam tenor
Emilio Robert Murray tenor
Licenza Chiara Skerath soprano
The Choir of Classical Opera
The Orchestra of Classical Opera
Ian Page conductor
The 15-year-old Mozart's Il Sogno di Scipione, K. 126, has not been much performed. It's too late to be truly the work of a prodigy, but not really a mature work, and it's not an opera but a serenata drammatica, a little one-act allegory in which the titular African king has to choose between Fortune and Constancy, prepared for the same Archbishop Colloredo who would later make Mozart's life hell. However, it followed the genuine opera Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87, and its big arias arguably mark an advance over that more successful work. Sample the arias by Scipione and Fortuna (Fortune): they are laid out on grand harmonic plans, and they offer technical challenges surmounted elegantly by tenor Stuart Jackson and soprano Soraya Mafi, respectively. If Mozart the vocal writer came into his own slightly before this, Mozart the aria composer took decisive steps forward here. Much credit is due to the ensemble Classical Opera and its conductor Ian Page, who get the precise combination of modest size and ambitious sweep needed to put this piece of early Mozart across. Although probably of most interest to serious Mozart fans, this is an enjoyable recording for anyone.