Rolando Villazon – Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Recorded in July 2017 in the sumptuous Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, this La clemenza di Tito follows albums which had come out previously in the Mozart series with Nézet-Séguin, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and tenor Rolando Villazón, who is the only singer to appear in all these productions. It should go without saying that the music is extremely finely-chiselled: none of the singers take the slightest liberty with either the score or the style – there are no unruly Italianisms like glissandos, individual showing off, clownish high-Cs, parasitic ornamentations, warbling, trilling, sobbing – which means that we are left with one of the purest and finest performances of this work. Note that this was Mozart’s final opera, first performed just two months before he passed away; and that the recitatives were written by the faithful Sussmayr, who would go on to “complete” the Requiem. In the same period Mozart was also putting the final touches to his Magic flute and only had a few weeks to finish the work; and yet, what perfection in the arias, ensembles and choruses! And that in spite of the fact that the subject probably was not a source of tremendous interest to the composer, especially since his explosive collaboration with Da Ponte. But when given a performance like this, the work absolutely passes with flying colours.

Tracklist:
01. Act 1: Overture (Live) 04:52
02. Act 1: “Ma che? sempre l’istesso” (Live) 03:42
03. Act 1: “Come ti piace imponi” (Live) 02:34
04. Act 1: “Amico, il passo affretta” (Live) 02:13
05. Act 1: “Deh se piacer mi vuoi” (Live) 05:15
06. Act 1: “Amico, ecco il momento” (Live) 00:39
07. Act 1: “Deh prendi un dolce amplesso” (Live) 01:00
08. Act 1: Marcia (Live) 01:42
09. Act 1: “Serbate, oh Dei custodi” (Live) 01:42
10. Act 1: “Te della patria il Padre” – “Basta, basta, oh miei fidi” (Live) 02:39
11. Act 1: Marcia Reprise (Live) 00:59
12. Act 1: “Adesso, oh Sesto, parla per me” (Live) 03:31
13. Act 1: “Del più sublime” (Live) 03:20
14. Act 1: “Non ci pentiam” (Live) 01:52
15. Act 1: “Ah perdona al primo affetto” (Live) 03:08
16. Act 1: “Che mi rechi in quel foglio?” (Live) 00:54
17. Act 1: “Di Tito al piè” (Live) 02:32
18. Act 1: “Ah, se fosse intorno al trono” (Live) 02:17
19. Act 1: “Felice me!” – “Ancora mi schernisce?” (Live) 04:43
20. Act 1: “Parto, ma tu ben mio” (Live) 06:39
21. Act 1: “Vedrai, Tito, vedrai” (Live) 00:47
22. Act 1: “Vengo… aspettate… Sesto!…” (Live) 02:12
23. Act 1: “Oh Dei, che smania è questa” (Live) 03:23
24. Act 1: “Deh conservate, oh Dei” – “Sesto!” (Live) 02:51
25. Act 1: “Sesto!” – Andante (Live) 03:43
26. Act 2: “Sesto, come tu credi” (Live) 02:04
27. Act 2: “Torna di Tito” (Live) 02:27
28. Act 2: “Partir deggio, o restar?” (Live) 00:51
29. Act 2: “Sesto! – Che chiedi?” (Live) 00:58
30. Act 2: “Se al volto mai ti senti” (Live) 04:55
31. Act 2: “Ah, grazie si rendano” – “È tutto colà d’intorno” (Live) 03:19
32. Act 2: “Già de’ pubblici giuochi” (Live) 02:03
33. Act 2: “Tardi s’avvede” (Live) 01:32
34. Act 2: “No, così scellerato” (Live) 00:32
35. Act 2: “Cesare, nol diss’io” (Live) 00:56
36. Act 2: “Tu fosti tradito” (Live) 03:08
37. Act 2: “Che orror! che tradimento!” – “Ingrato!” (Live) 02:42
38. Act 2: “Quello di Tito è il volto!” – “Odimi, oh Sesto” (Live) 03:18
39. Act 2: “Eppur mi fa pietà” (Live) 05:42
40. Act 2: “Deh per questo istante solo” (Live) 06:52
41. Act 2: “Ove s’intese mai” (Live) 01:59
42. Act 2: “Se all’impero” (Live) 04:54
43. Act 2: “Publio, ascolta!” (Live) 00:30
44. Act 2: “Ah, Vitellia” (Live) 01:40
45. Act 2: “S’altro che lagrime” (Live) 02:15
46. Act 2: “Ecco il punto, oh Vitellia” (Live) 02:10
47. Act 2: “Non più di fiori” (Live) 07:07
48. Act 2: “Che del ciel, che degli Dei” (Live) 01:36
49. Act 2: “Sesto, de’ tuoi delitti” (Live) 01:53
50. Act 2: “Ma che giorno è mai questo?” (Live) 01:46
51. Act 2: “Tu, è ver, m’assolvi, Augusto” (Live) 04:22

Personnel:
Rolando Villazón, tenor (Tito)
Marina Rebeka, soprano (Vitellia)
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano (Sesto)
Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano (Annio)
Regula Mühlemann, soprano (Servilia)
Adam Plachetka, bass-baritone (Publio)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
RIAS Kammerchor
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

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