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PTC5186987
Originally recorded in 2021
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter’s “La Passione” Symphony. Ranging from pastoral simplicity to exuberant outrage, the program offers some of the finest vocal writing around 1800, including some of Beethoven’s rare and little-known excursions to Italian bravura opera, as well as one of the most dramatic and expressive symphonies of the eighteenth-century. The Akademie für Alte Musik is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial Pentatone discography, including CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018), Handel’s Concerti grossi op. 6 (released in 2019 and 2020). Telemann’s Miriways (2020), Handel’s Messiah (2020) and Haydn’s L’isola disabitata (2021). Christina Landshamer featured as Marzelline on Beethoven’s Fidelio (2021).
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Reviews
*** Good Album
“… I wish Landshamer had risked more ornamentation in repeated phrases, as a late 18th-century soprano would surely have done. But this minor proviso hardly lessens pleasure in her vivid, shapely singing, accompanied by the Berliners with spirit ad stylistic understanding.”
Performance **** Recording *****
“… The … superb quality of Landshamer’s singing is matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument colours is rich, full and captured in outstanding recorded sound…”
“… On the whole, the performances are intelligently conceived and solidly executed. This, combined with the interesting programming, makes for a wholly satisfying listen. I only wish there was more than just 71 minutes of music, but that time is well-worth it to be savored.”
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