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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianoforte


ACD2 2327

Mozart's 250th: an intimate portrait of the composer.
The works on this recording extend from the first effort of an 11-year old child, An die Freude (To Joy), K. 53, composed in the autumn of 1768, to three works dated on the same day in 1791, Im Frühlingsanfang (At the Beginning of Spring), K. 597, Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge (Yearning for Spring), K. 596, and Das Kinderspiel (A Child at Play), K. 598.   An exception is the little German Masonic cantata Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls (You Who Revere the Creator of the Immense Universe), K. 619, which uses the unusual combination of voice and pianoforte, and was composed in July 1791.   What does one find running through these works?   Everywhere the same sense - which, with Mozart, is so precise - of the combined significance of words and music.   As well, a certain blend of seriousness and irony, of depth as well as childish naivety, all supported by a sure theatrical sense.

Note: Yannick Nézet-Séguin replaced Maestro Lorin Maazel at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 24, 26 and 27 of August (2005).   He conducted the Bruckner 8th.   It was a first for Yannick with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
  1. Abendempfindung, KV 523 [ ? Joachim Heinrich Campe ] 5:11

  2. Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, KV 596 [ Christian Adolf Overbeck ] 2:00

  3. Im Frühlingsanfang, KV 597 [ Christian Christoph Sturm ] 2:41

  4. Ariette «Dans un bois solitaire», KV 308/295b
      [ Antoine Houdart de la Motte ] 2:55

  5. Ariette «Oiseaux, si tous les ans», KV 307/284d [ Antoine Ferrand ] 1:30

  6. Das Veilchen, KV 476 [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ] 2:26

  7. Der Zauberer, KV 472 [ Christian Felix Welsse ] 2:10

  8. «Komm, liebe Zither», KV 351/367b
      [ Auteur inconnu / Unknown author ] 1:49

  9. An die Freude, KV 53/47e [ Johann Peter Uz ] 4:29

10. Das Lied der Trennung, KV 519 [ Klamer Eberhard Karl Schmidt ] 5:25

11. Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte, KV 520
      [ Gabriele von Baumberg ] l:44

12. Das Kinderspiel, KV 598 [ Christian Adolf Ouerbeck ] 1:32

13. «Ich würd’ auf meinem Pfad», KV 390/340c
      [Johann Timotheus Hermes ] 2:40

14. «Sei du mein Trost», KV 391/340b [ Johann Timotheus Hermes] 3:48

15. An Chloe, KV 524 [ Johann Georg Jacobi ] 2:21

16. Leopold Mozart: Die großmütige Gelassenheit. KV l49/125d
      [ Johann Christian Günther ] 0:55

17. «Wie unglücklich bin ich nit», KV 147/125g
      [ Auteur inconnu / Unknown author ] 0:55

18. Josef Mislivecek (? Mozart): «Ridente la calma», KV 152/210a
      [ Auteur inconnu / unknown author ] 3:25

19. Das Traumbild, KV 530 [ Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty ] 2:42

20. Die betrogene Welt, KV 474 [ Christian Felix Weisse] 3:06

21. Lied zur Gesellenreise, KV 468 [ Josef Franz von Rartschky ] 2:40

22. Kleine deutsche Kantate
      „Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt”, KV 619

      [ Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen ] 6:43



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