Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Aria: Hier soll ich dich denn sehen
3. Recitative & Aria: Konstanze! dIch wiederzusehen
4. Duet: Ich gehe, doch rate ich dir"
5. Aria: Martern aller Arten
6. Act 2, Aria: Welche Wonne, welche Lust
7. Aria: Frisch zum Kampfe!
8. Duet: Vivat Bacchus!
9. Quartetto: Ach, Belmonte! Ach Mein Leben!
10. Aria: Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke
11. Romance: In Mohrenland gefangen war
12. Act 3, Aria: Ha! wie will ich triumphieren
13. Recitative & Duet: Welch ein Geschick!
14. Choir: Bassa Selim lebe lange!
15. Act 1, Aria & Duet: Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223704 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Top of the line Abduction
This opera has challenged quite a few of the most ambitious German sopranos of the post-war period; even Schwarzkopf tried to navigate the heroic arias Mozart wrote for Konstanze, but though she had the 'expression' she didn't have the technique. Conversely, those who had the coloratura didn't have the style. The tenor part of Belmonte is no easier, especially if the aria 'Ich baue ganz auf deine Staerke' isn't cut. Fritz Wunderlich sang it beautifully, but his Konstanze was basically a soubrette (Erika Koeth--on DG conducted by Jochum). Bruno Weil's cast is fantastic: Cheryl Studer has both the style and the technique, and so does the tenor Kurt Streit. Their German is beautiful too. Same for the others. The orchestra, not known for panache, plays beautifully under Weil. There is hardly a passage that doesn't sound more fully expressed than it has ever been heard before. Of all the Mozart opera recordings I've heard recently, this one is actually the only one that really sets a new standard.

A good one.
A good version of Serail... most of the arias and duettos are well sung... still not a brilliant version...