Mozart: The Magic Flute

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CHAN 3121

Multiple Set of 2 CDs

Mozart: The Magic Flute

Release Date: March 2005
Originally recorded in November 2004

Composer (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Tenor Voice tenor - Tamino
Barry Banks

Solo soprano - Queen of the Night
Elizabeth Vidal

Solo soprano - Pamina
Rebecca Evans

Solo soprano - First Lady
Majella Cullagh

Soprano Voice soprano - Second Lady
Sarah Fox

Mezzo Voice mezzo-soprano - Third Lady
Diana Montague

Baritone Voice baritone - Papageno
Simon Keenlyside

Soprano Voice soprano - Papagena
Lesley Garrett

Bass Voice bass - Sarastro
Sir John Tomlinson

Solo tenor - Monostatos
John Graham-Hall

Baritone Voice bass - Speaker, Armed Man, First Priest
Christopher Purves

Solo tenor - Armed Man, Second Priest
Peter Bronder

Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Choral
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Venue
Blackheath Halls, London

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Michael Common

Conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras

Genre:
Vocal & Song
Opera in English

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Opera - The Magic Flute

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

(1756-1791)

The Magic Flute

136:47

Singspiel in two acts

Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, English translation by Jeremy Sans

COMPACT DISC ONE

Overture

6:27

Act I

'Have mercy, have mercy'

6:22

Tamino, Three Ladies

'I'm sure that there could never be'

4:26

Papageno, Tamino, Three Ladies

'Such loveliness beyond compare'

4:33

Tamino, Three Ladies

'Don't be afraid, now hear my song'

4:54

Queen of the Night, Tamino

'Hm! hm! hm! hm!'

5:47

Papageno, Tamino, Three Ladies

Dialogue: (scream) - 'Slaves!' -

3:01

'You will not dare escape again'

Pamina, Monostatos, Papageno

'A man in search of truth and beauty'

3:07

Pamino, Papageno

'If you can strive to be a man'

1:40

Three Boys, Tamino

10.

'These words of wisdom reassure me'

2:06

Tamino, Speaker

11.

'What rash adventure bring you here'

6:34

Speaker, Tamino, Chorus

12.

'How soft, how strong your magic sound'

3:02

Tamino

13.

'Walk on tip-toe, not a sound'

3:01

Pamina, Papageno, Monostatos, Chorus

14.

'We worship Sarastro, we bow before him!'

1:50

Chorus, Papageno, Pamina

15.

'Sir, I was disobedient'

3:08

Pamina, Sarastro

16.

'Our Lord Sarastro will decide'

3:20

Pamina, Sarastro

63:23

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II

'My brothers who serve the great gods'

4:30

Sarastro, First Priest, Second Priest

'O Isis and Osiris, arm them with strength'

3:06

Sarastro, Priests

Dialogue: 'Where to you think we are?'

1:18

Tamino, Papageno, First Priest, Second Priest

'A woman's beauty is beguiling'

1:03

Second Priest, Speaker, Papageno

'Why, why, why are you in this place of fear?'

3:29

Three Ladies, Papageno, Tamino, First Priest, Second Priest

Dialogue: 'There she is, the blushing violet' -

2:20

'All the world is always lusting'

Monostatos, Queen of the Night, Pamina

'The wrath of hell is burning in my bosom'

4:01

Queen of the Night, Pamina, Monostatos, Sarastro

'We worship at the altar'

4:00

Sarastro

Dialogue: 'Here we must leave you'

1:20

First Priest, Second Priest, Papageno, Tamino, Old Woman

10.

'Now for the second time we greet you'

2:14

Three Boys, Papageno, Pamina

11.

'Now I know that love can vanish'

3:59

Pamina, Papageno

12.

'O Isis and Osiris, gods all-knowing'

2:41

Chorus of Priests, Sarastro, Pamina, Tamino

13.

'Will I not see my love again?'

2:54

Pamina, Sarastro, Tamino

14.

Dialogue: 'Tamino! Tamino. . . Tamino. . .'

1:06

Papageno, Second Priest

15.

'If only I could meet her'

4:42

Papageno, Old Woman, Second Priest, Papagena

16.

'Behold, the harbinger of morning'

1:50

Three Boys

17.

'Are you the man I love the best'

4:21

Pamina, Three Boys

18.

'The man who dares to tread this path'

3:11

Two Armed Men, Tamino, Pamina

19.

'Pamina? I hear her calling'

1:19

Tamino, Two Armed Men

20.

'Tamino, mine, welcome at last'

3:55

Pamina, Tamino, Two Armed Men

21.

'The fiery furnace could not harm us'

3:17

Pamina, Tamino, Attendants, Priests

22.

'Papagena! Papagena! Papagena!'

4:30

23.

'Play your magic music'

0:42

Papageno, Three Boys

24.

'Pa-pa-ge-na!' - 'Pa-pa-ge-no!'

2:20

Papageno, Papagena

25.

'We must be very, very quiet!'

2:23

Monostatos, Queen of the Night, Three Ladies

26.

'The banner of sunlight'

2:50

Sarastro, Chorus

73:24

Solo: Elizabeth Vidal soprano - Queen of the Night

Solo: Rebecca Evans soprano - Pamina

Solo: Majella Cullagh soprano - First Lady

Solo: John Graham-Hall tenor - Monostatos

Solo: Peter Bronder tenor - Armed Man, Second Priest

Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Choral: Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

4-10 November 2004

Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras

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Reviews

Indeed, this is on of the most desirable sets in Chandos’ admirable series, worthy to stand comparison with some of the classic accounts in the original German… A real winner

Opera ‘Disc of the month’

Sir Charles Mackerras conducts this enchanting performance with a superb cast headed by Barry Banks and Rebecca Evans, with Simon Keenlyside’s Papageno and John Tomlinson’s Sarastro.

Sunday Telegraph ‘100 Classical Albums you must he

Mackerras… is perhaps the world’s wisest and most inquiring Mozartian, and here he gets playing of magical transparency from the LPO… bringing a sense of wonder to the music now rarely experienced in the theatre.

The Sunday Times ‘Classical CD of the Week’

Barry Banks marries ease, expressivity and eloquence to notable effect…

Gramophone on CHAN 3112 (Barry Banks)

The lovely, warm soprano of Rebecca Evans shines as Susanna… she captures the right feeling of sensuality of a woman awaiting her lover on her wedding night…

Classic FM Magazine ‘Disc of the Month’ on CHAN 31

This may be the finest release yet in Chandos’ Opera in English series: an opera that is singularly appropriate for English-language performance in a recording that is worthy of comparison with most of its German-language predecessors. I enjoyed this ‘Flute’ enormously, in part because of Jeremy Sams’s delightful, witty translation and in part because this is a first-rate performance in almost every way.

Fanfare (USA)

Mackerras has long been one of the most discerning of Mozartians. As ever, he chooses lively but never inflexible tempos, encourages light, period style articulation, and never misses a trick with Mozart’s miraculous woodwind colouring. Linguistic purists will turn up their noses. Others will find this ‘Magic Flute’ as magical as any in the catalogue, irrespective of language.

The Telegraph

CD of the Week

The Guardian

The performance is very good, with some lively singing, both from the soloists and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, excellent orchestral playing from the LPO, and above all that sure sense both of overall direction and of an appreciative ear for detail that characterises Sir Charles Mackerras’s conducting (not least in his feeling for appoggiaturas and light ornamentation).

International Record Review

Rebecca Evanss Ilia is all one expects from this lovely soprano, the voice pure, intonation secure and musicianship impeccable…

The Sunday Telegraph on CHAN 3103(2) (Idomeneo)

This set is the best argument I have heard in ages for the Royal Opera to perform Mozart’s great vernacular Singspiel in English. Rebecca Evans (Pamina) and Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), sang in Covent Garden’s recent revival, as did John Graham-Hall (Monostatos), and they are even better here in their own language, particularly in Jeremy Sams’s witty dialogue. Mackerras, who conducted, is perhaps the world’s wisest and most inquiring Mozartian, and here he gets playing of magical transparency from the LPO, highlighting the wind solos and bringing a sense of wonder to the music now rarely experienced in the theatre.

Sunay Times

No work seems to me to make better sense in the vernacular than Mozart’s concluding masterpiece… All in all, anyone wanting the work in English need no hesitate to acquire this set, the first-ever version in the vernacular on CD.

Gramophone 'Editor's Choice'

Chandos has assembled a superb cast. It is wonderful to have Simon Keenlyside’s incomparable Papageno preserved on disc and clever to bring along Lesley Garrett as a delectable Papagena. Barry banks and Rebecca Evans are ideally matched as Tamino and Pamina, both singing superbly. Elizabeth Vidal is a Queen of the Night who retains her character and is not just a coloratura soprano. Sarastro’s arias are sung with immense authority and richness of tone by John Tomlinson. With Majella Cullagh, Sarah Fox and Diana Montague as an especially well contrasted Three Ladies, John Graham-Hall as Monostatos and Chrisopther Purves as the Speaker (and in two other roles), one could not hope for a finer English-singing cast.

The Sunday Telegraph

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