Jonas Kaufmann – The Age Of Puccini (2015) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Jonas Kaufmann – The Age Of Puccini (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 76:16 minutes | 788 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: Qobuz  | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Decca/London

On 14 April 2010 Jonas Kaufmann became the first German tenor to sing Cavaradossi at the Metropolitan Opera in 103 years. He shaped Puccini’s music with exceptional elegance, balancing the character’s essential revolutionary fervour with a heart-stopping tenderness. Critics and audiences received the portrayal ecstatically. Listeners familiar with Kaufmann’s artistry in German and French repertoire exclusively will be astonished by his affinity for Italian music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In preparing this music by Puccini and his contemporaries (including Puccini’s and Mascagni’s teacher of composition, Ponchielli), Kaufmann was gratified that his fluent Italian enabled him to “understand double meanings and discover the secrets between the written lines”. Freedom from technical worries allowed Kaufmann to concentrate exclusively on communication, “with the text leading me automatically into the emotional circumstances of each piece.”

In conversation Kaufmann repeatedly emphasizes the emotional content of this repertoire — above all, the Zandonai aria: “I doubt that you can put more personal feelings into music. Romeo is mourning Giulietta, but in a shockingly realistic way. Listening to it is like sneaking into someone’s privacy.” In such music, “it’s satisfying when you can slip into your character and feel how the emotions change your sound, your breathing, your whole approach to the notes.”

Producers: Christopher Alder and David Frost
Recording engineers: Oldřich Slezák, Ivan Zbiral, Mike Hatch, Philip Siney
Mixing engineer: Richard King

Tracklist:
01 – Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1: ‘Che gelida manina’
02 – Giacomo Puccini: Tosca / Act 3: ‘E lucevan le stelle’
03 – Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine / Act 2: ‘Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso’
04 – Amilcare Ponchielli : I Lituani / Act 3: ‘Sì…questa estrema grazia’
05 – Amilcare Ponchielli : La Gioconda / Act 2: ‘Cielo e mar’
06 – Arrigo Boïto: Mefistofele / Act 1: ‘Dai campi, dai prati’
07 – Arrigo BoïtoMefistofele / Act 4: ‘Giunto sul passo estremo’
08 – Pietro Mascagni: Iris / Act 1: ‘Apri la tua finestra!’
09 – Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: ‘Intanto, amici, qua…Viva il vino spumeggiante’
10 – Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: ‘Mamma, quel vino è generoso’
11 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1: ‘Recitar!…Vesti la giubba’
12 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo: La bohème / Act 3: ‘Musetta! O gioia della mia dimora! – Testa adorata’
13 – Francesco Cilèa: L’Arlesiana / Act 2: ‘E la solita storia’
14 – Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 2: L’anima ho stanca
15 – Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 1: ‘La dolcissima effigie’
16 – Riccardo Zandonai: Giulietta e Romeo / Act 3: ‘Giulietta! Son io!’
17 – Riccardo Zandonai: Fedora / Act 2: ‘Amor ti vieta’
18 – Riccardo Zandonai: Andrea Chénier / Act 1: ‘Colpito qui m’avete … Un dì all’azzurro spazio’
19 – Riccardo Zandonai: Andrea Chénier / Act 4: ‘Come un bel dì di maggio’
20 – Riccardo Zandonai: Andrea Chénier / Act 4: ‘Vicino a te s’acqueta’
21 – Licinio Refice: ‘Ombra di nube’

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