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Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! in Bloomington, MN
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The jokey graphics on this 2024
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release are certainly eye-catching and, who knows, may have helped put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of that year. However, they don't get at the ambitious quality of
Golda Schultz
's project here, summarized in notes in which she had a hand: she is after "the threat of insanity, the painstaking complexity, and the dangerous high-wire act demanded of performers by
Mozart
's work... best reflected in his female characters."
Schultz
programs arias from three major late
operas,
Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
,
Don Giovanni, K. 527
, and
Così fan tutte, K. 588
. The
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
title could apply not only to the performer, who here faces in pure form the Mozartian quality invariably described as deceptively simple, but also to the characters, who are, in one way or another, pushed to the brink. There is a lot to like here.
's program has a nice flow, which moves from quieter junctures to more dramatic ones, and she is persuasive in the recitatives that are included preceding most of the selections. The chief attraction is
's voice, which has perfect control across its whole range and is absolutely a thing of beauty. Does she bring the new psychological insights promised in the accompanying material? That may be debated, but this is a strong entry from a rising soprano in one of her specialties. She picks strong collaborators, both in the ensembles, where she differentiates herself nicely from a variety of other singers, and in the work of the
Kammerakademie Potsdam
and conductor
Antonello Manacorda
, who smoothly foreground
's vocal work. "Crazy" may not seem the right word for that vocal work, but it is very much worth hearing. ~ James Manheim
Alpha
release are certainly eye-catching and, who knows, may have helped put this album on classical best-seller lists in the spring of that year. However, they don't get at the ambitious quality of
Golda Schultz
's project here, summarized in notes in which she had a hand: she is after "the threat of insanity, the painstaking complexity, and the dangerous high-wire act demanded of performers by
Mozart
's work... best reflected in his female characters."
Schultz
programs arias from three major late
operas,
Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
,
Don Giovanni, K. 527
, and
Così fan tutte, K. 588
. The
Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
title could apply not only to the performer, who here faces in pure form the Mozartian quality invariably described as deceptively simple, but also to the characters, who are, in one way or another, pushed to the brink. There is a lot to like here.
's program has a nice flow, which moves from quieter junctures to more dramatic ones, and she is persuasive in the recitatives that are included preceding most of the selections. The chief attraction is
's voice, which has perfect control across its whole range and is absolutely a thing of beauty. Does she bring the new psychological insights promised in the accompanying material? That may be debated, but this is a strong entry from a rising soprano in one of her specialties. She picks strong collaborators, both in the ensembles, where she differentiates herself nicely from a variety of other singers, and in the work of the
Kammerakademie Potsdam
and conductor
Antonello Manacorda
, who smoothly foreground
's vocal work. "Crazy" may not seem the right word for that vocal work, but it is very much worth hearing. ~ James Manheim
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