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Valer Sabadus, Michael Hofstetter, Recreation - Mozart: Castrato Arias (2015)

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Valer Sabadus, Michael Hofstetter, Recreation - Mozart: Castrato Arias (2015)

Valer Sabadus, Michael Hofstetter, Recreation - Mozart: Castrato Arias (2015)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 223 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 120 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Oehms | Catalog Number: 1814

With opera arias of Hasse, he has become the shooting star amongst countertenors; Valer Sabadus appeared in Mozart roles for the Styriarte in December 2013. The Salzburg master wrote for some of the greatest castrati of his time: Rauzzini, Consoli, Bedini. The young interpreter must therefore sing up into the heights of the soprano range; he succeeds in this wonderfully, as he also does in the exploration of profound feelings. His mentor Michael Hofstetter is on the podium, adding the orchestra‘s pulsing Mozartian vitality to this flawlessly beautiful singing.

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Valer Sabadus
Conductor: Michael Hofstetter
Orchestra/Ensemble: recreation

Reviews: Judging from this live concert (with no audience sound whatsoever) Romanian countertenor Valer Sabadus has a big, exciting voice, vibrant and filled with colors. The program is far too brief–there is just 50 minutes of music here and seven-and-a-half of it is taken up with a (well-played) version of the Lucio Silla overture. Mozart wrote very little for castrato, but had “Exultate jubilate” been included, this would have offered far better bang for the buck.

Beginning with a bravura piece from Finta, Sabadus pulls out all the correct coloratura stops–fast, accurate divisions, a nice trill; the second Finta piece is more introspective and is sung with meltingly lovely tone and is finely phrased. The first aria from Silla is even more appealing–a love song–and is sung quietly and with long, legato lines; the second is, again, bravura, with long, melismatic phrases; Sabadus adds a polite cadenza to the aria’s final moments.

Idamante’s “Non ho colpa” is well known and Sabadus handles it handsomely, probably singing it better than any mezzo-soprano I’ve ever heard, and really going to town with a cadenza. “Deh, per queste istante solo” from Clemenza is the recital’s most dramatic and complex piece, and by using a panoply of dynamics, along with impeccable intonation, Sabadus makes a meal of it. The CD ends with Cherubino’s “Voi che sapete”, which was not written for a castrato; I’ve heard countertenors sing it before and it never sounds quite right. Nor does it here, despite wonderfully boyish inflections and fine use of dynamics.

No texts or translations and only 43 minutes of singing stop this from being very highly rated, but what we get, however, is stunning.

Tracklisting:

La finta giardiniera, KV 196
[1] Se l’augellin sen fugge (Ramiro)
[2] Dolce d‘amor compagna (Ramiro)

Lucio Silla, KV 135
[3] Ouvertüre
[4] Pupille amate (Cecilio)
[5] Il tenero momento (Cecilio)

La clemenza di Tito, KV 621
[6] Deh, per questo istante solo (Sesto)

Idomeneo, Rè di Creta, KV 366
[7] Non ho colpa (Idamante)

Le nozze di Figaro, KV 492
[8] Voi che sapete (Cherubino)

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

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Valer Sabadus, recreation - Grosses Orchester Graz, Michael Hofstetter / Mozart Castrato Arias

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