Mozart - Ecstasy & Abyss
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 19658772252
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 31st March 2023
Contents
Works
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
La clemenza di Tito, K621
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
Artists
Elin Rombo (soprano)Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Martin Frost (basset clarinet)
Lucas Debargue (piano)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Martin FrostWorks
Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
La clemenza di Tito, K621
Symphony no.38 in D major, K504 'Prague'
Symphony no.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
Artists
Elin Rombo (soprano)Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Martin Frost (basset clarinet)
Lucas Debargue (piano)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Martin FrostAbout
Each of the release’s two albums focuses on a moment in Mozart’s life when the composer appeared to teeter on a knife-edge between triumph and disaster, joy and depression, life and death. It was these moments that brought the music of the most extraordinary beauty and intensity from the composer.
Included are Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto, his simmering Piano Concerto no.25 (soloist Lucas Debargue), his joyous Prague and Jupiter symphonies and sparkling arias from the opera’s La clemenza di Tito (with Ann Hallenberg) and Idomeneo (with Elin Rombo).
The first album takes its inspiration from a concert Mozart gave in Leipzig in May 1789, a difficult moment in his life marked out by personal, financial and creative pressures. The second album focuses on the composer’s triumphant visit to Prague in August 1791, an ostensibly far happier period. Both albums capture the combination of playfulness and profundity, light and shade, brilliance and tragedy that characterised so many moments in Mozart’s life and career – the dichotomy that sets his best music apart.
This release marks Fröst’s recorded debut as a conductor, while he directs the orchestra in his third recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto from the basset clarinet, the variant instrument for which it was written.
Martin Fröst is chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and frequently appears with the world’s most distinguished orchestras. In 2014, he became the first clarinetist to win the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
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