Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne

Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 028942252721
EAN: 0028942252721
ASIN: B000004118

Release Date: 1991-09-12

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All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Vocal & Song

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Classical (c.1770-1830)

German

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Tracks:

Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Intrada
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Mein Liebster Freund Hat Mich Verlassen - Bastien Flieht Mich! Der Treulose!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Ich Geh Jetzt Auf Die Weide
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Colas' Auftritt - Befraget mich ein zartes Kind
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Guten Morgen, Herr Colas!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Wenn Mein Bastien Einst Im Scherze - O, Die Edelfrau Vom Schlob
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Wurd Ich Auch, Wie Manche Buhlerinnen - Gib Dich Zufrieden!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Auf Den Rat, Den Ich Gegeben - Na Versteck Dich, Bastienne!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Groben Dank Dir Abzustatten - Es Freut Mich, Dab Du Endlich Zu Dir Selber Kommst
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Geh! Du Sagst Mir Eine Fabel - Moglich! Trotzdem Hat Sie Bereits...
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Diggi! Daggi! - Ist Die Hexerei Zu Ende?
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Meiner Liebsten SchWangen - Bastienne! Ja, Warum Redest Du Nicht?
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Er War Mir Sonst Treu Und Ergeben - Aber Schau, Bastienne!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Geh Hin! - Ich Will Mich In Die Stadt Begeben
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Dein Trotz Vermehrt Sich Durch Mein Leiden? - Und Sollte Ich Wohl Ein Solcher Narr Sein
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Geh! Herz von Flandern!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Kinder! Kinder!
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Was Frag Ich Viel Nach Geld Und Gut
Bastien Und Bastienne KV 50-46b: Komm, Liebe Zither, Komm

Customer Reviews:

very good.......2005-06-13

good piece and well performed by WSK singers.... Remember this is an opera that Mozart wrote when he was 12yo.... It's written for boychoir and this is a great performance made by one of the best boychoir in the world. I dunno...but I think that european musical tradition is not well understood in USA In Europe boys learn to sing respecting one secular tradition.

Wonderfully written by a child. Sadly, sung by them too........2001-07-27

Mozart's one-act songspiel was written when he was twelve as a commission for the notorious Doctor Mesmer, and based on a libretto parodying Jean-Jacques Rousseau's interlude 'Le devin du village'. it tells the story of a shepherdess, her fickle lover and the supposed magician who brings them together. The twist is that the parts are sung by children, and Mozart has great fun colouring these caricatures of adult passion with music of restless playfulness.

There are tantalising glimpses of later masterpieces throughout: the spooky dark drama of arias 10 and 14, for instance, look to 'The Magic Flute', while Bastien's rapture in no. 11 matching later such moments in 'Figaro' and 'Cosi'. the scathing and intense duet leading to reconciliation already suggests Mozart's precocious insights into the tragicomedy of heterosexual relationships.

The problem is the singing - as Charlotte Church has shown, children's voices tend to be monotonous and emotionally colorless - Georg Nigl as Bastien is particularly unattractive with his rheumy declamation. this aspect also ruins the two otherwise gorgeous lieder that close the set - 'Contentment', an early stab at 'I got plenty of nuttin'', and 'Come, dear zither, come'.

Disappointing.......2000-01-15

This is, not surprisingly, pleasant but hardly magnificent music. But it is interesting and superior to much of 18th century opera -- what an astounding genius Mozart was to compose such music even at such a tender age! However, this recording is disappointging. Whether it is the singer, or the engineer, I find Bastienne's (Dominik Orieschnig) singing harsh to the point of being unpleasant while Harrer's conducting is somewhat leaden.

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