Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Reinoud Van Mechelen, A Nocte Temporis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1114
Release: 2025
Size: 1.8 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Mitridate, rè di Ponto, KV 87 / 74a
01. Act I: Se di lauri il crine adorno
02. Va, dal furor portata, KV 21 / 19c
03. Si mostra la sorte, KV 209
Misero! o sogno, KV 431 / 425b
04. Adagio – Andante sostenuto – Allegro assai
Se al labbro mio non credi, KV 295
05. Adagio – Allegretto – Tempo primo
06. Per pietà, non ricercate, KV 420
07. Con ossequio, con rispetto, KV 210
Or che il dover, KV 36 / 33i
08. Tali e cotanti sono
Fresh from his triumphant onstage success in Paris, Berlin and Brussels singing leading roles in the operas of Rameau and Mozart, tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen presents his long-awaited first Mozart recording. Together with his ensemble A Nocte Temporis, he has devised a highly imaginative programme. From the eleven single opera and concert arias for tenor and orchestra that are ascribed to Mozart, the Belgian tenor has selected those that are entirely in the composer’s hand – leaving out the ones completed or reconstructed by others, and adding an exquisite aria from Mitridate, re di Ponto. Mozart was only nine years old when in 1765, during his stay in London, he launched into his first opera aria for tenor and orchestra, to verses from a libretto by Metastasio. At the end of 1766, on his return to Salzburg, the child prodigy composed Or che il dover – Tali e cotanti sono KV 36 for a festive celebration, making the court aware of his enormous talent. Throughout his career, alongside his own operas Mozart also wrote arias intended for insertion into the operas of other composers, hidden masterpieces that now receive revelatory performances.