- Audio CD (May 5 2003)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: RCA
- ASIN: B00008UHZZ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #230,538 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Perfect, Jan 24 2012
By Edd Dumbill - Published on Amazon.com
This is only one of a handful of opera recordings I own, and I know far too little to be able to critique imperfections. All I can tell you is that it is one of the dearest pieces of music in my life. This recording is outstanding, thrilling and beautiful. I heard a movement played on BBC Radio 3 some years ago and knew immediately I must have it. Take a risk on a stranger's recommendation and listen.
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Music Just Became a Better World, July 24 2011
By Dennis Figueroa - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Joseph Schuster:Demofoonte (Audio CD)
Unequivocally Ludger Remy captures Schuster's Demofoonte stylistically and historically right! His interpretation succeeds to ensnare this gallant opera seria with the many artifices of baroque singing and the potent orchestration that later marked grand opera.Considering Schuster's close friendship and mutual admiration with Mozart and Haydn, it is not surprising to find so many similarities in style and counterpointe. As opera seria goes in relating the great foibles of historical and mythical personae, a more dramatic plot brew in the rise and fall of Schuster's relation with Mozart. Unfortunately, this tragedia was never set to music by any composer, and the story withered but not died. Demofoonte flickers a light on a moment in time when these two great personae admired each other much. The music certainly testifies to that.
The attention grabbing highlights are Marie Melnitzky's three arias: Vanne da questo istante, Se tutti i mali miei, and Tu sai chi son, practically Demofoonte's 3-movement vocal sinfonia when pieced together as such. Any review of this recording cannot be mute to express delight at her word painting and piercing oboe-like sharp crescendos. Her skill is an amazing feat of strength and control in soaring notes and cascading them back down into a layered gradient in tessitura. Music just became a better world.
Another moment that cannot escape review is the aria Sperai vicino il lido. Metastasio wrote this poem to convey mixed emotions. Mozart and Gluck interpreted the text into an aria of messo charatere of hopeless melancholy in largo, and fateful angst in agitato. The execution of Schuster's Sperai is a diamond in brute, a natural gem left un-latticed and un-polished but which wants and still waits to sparkle to its splendor. This and a couple more arias lack singing in tempo giusto, and melismas that need to run fast and trill pure vowels.
Nevertheless, this recording gets five stars because no matter the few singing imperfections, Schuster wrote a score whose beauty over-compensates human foible ... let alone his own.
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