Rene Jacobs

[Anne]

I found this at Harmonia Mundi web site:



TO BE RELEASED THIS AUTUMN: Mozart's Don Giovanni reinvented by René Jacobs

With this recording, the ackownledged conducter finally completes the interpretation of the whole Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy.

If there is one thing that marks out René Jacobs's approach to Mozart, it is the way he constantly asks himself questions – and the specifically musical brilliance of the answers he comes up with. The success of his recent version of La clemenza di Tito is proof of that! After Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, his recording of this centrepiece of the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy offers us the latest fruits of his reflections on Classical opera.

Available soon as CD and SACD
- DVD to come! 
   

[Anne]

Although both are from the classical period (ok  Beethoven straddles the Classical into the Romantic period),  I have never associated Beethoven and Mozart together very much before.  Their styles seemed quite different.

Today while listening to Mozart Syms 38 and 41, I was struck by how similar Beethoven and Mozart sound!  It was a real revelation!  Must go back and see what else I can discover.

Has anyone else noticed the easy similarity thanks to Jacobs?

[Anne]

Que,

I hope you will give Jacobs a chance with the Bach Christmas Oratorio.  I had not cared for Bach very much until I had heard that recording.  Am now looking for other Bach works to discover.

[Mozart]

Lookey what MM has found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fI5imc5ZU

[Anne]

No need to worry Gurn, It will be out before my birthday 


I think it comes out next month. Here is a website.

http://www.harmoniamundi.com/others/album_fiche.php?album_id=1194

MM,

Thanks for the info about DG coming out next month.  Will it have the same picture you displayed in your post?

I ask because there were 2 different Le Nozzi di Figaro CD's shown both as being conducted by Jacobs.  Do you or anyone know why this is?  I was not sure which was the correct one.  Thanks

[Mozart]

I think it will have that cover. 2 different covers for figaro? I have only ever seen one, this one. Which other one are you talking about?

[Anne]

Just a minute.  I'll be right back with the URL.

[Anne]

http://www.amazon.com/Nozze-di-Figaro-Simon-Keenlyside/dp/B000A169L8/ref=sr_1_11/104-6944379-3143911?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1186871911&sr=1-11

[Anne]

Then there is this one which you showed.

http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Kirchschlager-Keenlyside-McLaughlin-Rensburg/dp/B0001HZ728/ref=sr

[Mozart]

I think the first one was just a re release for Mozart 250. Might be wrong, but there are lots of covers that look like that.

[Anne]

Thank you.  I appreciate the info.

[Gabriel]

Although both are from the classical period (ok  Beethoven straddles the Classical into the Romantic period),  I have never associated Beethoven and Mozart together very much before.  Their styles seemed quite different.

Today while listening to Mozart Syms 38 and 41, I was struck by how similar Beethoven and Mozart sound!  It was a real revelation!  Must go back and see what else I can discover.

Has anyone else noticed the easy similarity thanks to Jacobs?

Anne, you will listen to Jacobs' Haydn and you will see how close is Haydn's language to Beethoven's. (Yes, I know, they both spoke in German... ).

[Anne]

 German must be it then!   Thanks for the comment. 

[Gabriel]

I am wondering how will the Don Giovanni release be. There were two performances of Don Giovanni last year in the Salle Pleyel; in one, the Prague version was played, and in the other, the Vienna version. Will Jacobs, for the CD, make a combination of both, as it is usually done? Or will he insist in separating the versions, and offering an alternative section with the different numbers of the Vienna version?

The answer to this enigma will be known in a short time... (In my opinion, he will not mix the versions).

Well, I will answer myself. I haven't seen the CDs yet at the stores, but in the Harmonia Mundi website a complete description of Jacobs' Don Giovanni is already available: http://www.harmoniamundi.com/france/album_fiche.php?album_id=1194. Jacobs chose the Vienna version, and added as appendix the numbers of the Prague version. I'm glad for this: listening last year to the duet "Per queste tue manine" was simply delightful, and I think that it works better than "Ah, pietà, signori miei".

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, I will answer myself. I haven't seen the CDs yet at the stores, but in the Harmonia Mundi website a complete description of Jacobs' Don Giovanni is already available: http://www.harmoniamundi.com/france/album_fiche.php?album_id=1194. Jacobs chose the Vienna version, and added as appendix the numbers of the Prague version. I'm glad for this: listening last year to the duet "Per queste tue manine" was simply delightful, and I think that it works better than "Ah, pietà, signori miei".

Excellent, Gabriel, thanks for the link. This is at the top of my wish list.



PS - I would have preferred the Prague version, but I'll take what I can get.

[The new erato]

Go for Keisers opera Croesus! A luxury production and a real eyeopener on German Baroque opera (always low profile compared to Italien and French baroque)

[Anne]

Go for Keisers opera Croesus! A luxury production and a real eyeopener on German Baroque opera (always low profile compared to Italien and French baroque)

Thanks, erato, for the recommendation.  I just ordered it.

[Anne]

Gabriel,

Thanks, for the Haydn link.  Forgot I had it.  Will listen this weekend.

At the Don Giovanni site that you told us about, under the picture is the word "Acheter" meaning "to buy."  That brings up a screen that says Don Giovanni will be released 09/29/2007.

[Tancata]

Que,

I hope you will give Jacobs a chance with the Bach Christmas Oratorio.  I had not cared for Bach very much until I had heard that recording.  Am now looking for other Bach works to discover.

X2

Over the past weekend, I spent a lot of time in a car which happened to have this recording of the Christmas Oratorio. It's lovely. Konrad Junghanel's lute sounds just right in the continuo, and all the soloists are top-class. Although Roeschmann sounds a little harsh here and there.

[Que]

So, there it is - the first review of Jacobs' recording of "Don Giovanni".





           ~ click picture for link ~

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