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Mozart - The Magic Flute (Highlights) - Jerusalem, Popp, Brendel, Bracht, Gruberova / Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Bernard Haitink / EMI Classics Audio CD 2001 Stereo
UPC 724357460422
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".
Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years there, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas. His Requiem was largely unfinished by the time of his death at the age of 35, the circumstances of which are largely uncertain and much mythologized.
| Label: | EMI Classics – 724357460422 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2001 |
| Genre: | Classical |
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Tracklist:
The Magic Flute (Highlights)
1 Overture 7.26
Act I
2 Der Vogelfanger bin :cu ya (Papageno) 2.04
3 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sch6n (Tamino) 3.58
4 O zittre nicht, mein liebe Sohn...Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren (Queen of Night) 4.58
5 Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fiihlen (Pamina/Papageno) 3.09
6 Schnelle FuBe, rasche Mut (Pamina/Papageno/Monostatos/Chorus) 3.09
Act II
7 O Isis und Osiris (Sarastro/Chorus) 2.50
8 Der Holle Rache (Queen of Night) 2.45
9 In diesen heil’gen Hallen (Sarastro) 4.17
10 Ach, ich fuhl’s (Pamina) 4.09
11 O Isis und Osiris (Chorus) 3.09
12 Ein Madchen oder Weibchen (Papageno) 4.09
13 Papagena! Papagena! Pagagena! (Papageno/3 Boys/Papagena) 8.14
14 Die Strahlen der Sonne (Sarastro/Chorus) 3.04
- Tamino - Siegfried Jerusalem
- Pamina - Lucia Popp
- Papageno - Wolfgang Brendel
- Sarastro - Roland Bracht
- The Queen of Night - Edita Gruberova
- Monostatos - Heinz Zednik
- Papagena - Brigitte Lindner
- 3 Boys - Members of the Télz Boys’ Choir
- Choir and orchestra - Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
- Chorus Master - Gustaf Sjokvist
- Conducted by - Bernard Haitink
