Martin Fröst, Lucas Debargue – Mozart: Ecstasy & Abyss [LEIPZIG, 1789] (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Martin Fröst, Lucas Debargue – Mozart: Ecstasy & Abyss [LEIPZIG, 1789] (2023)
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The new double album by Martin Fröst is dedicated to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For the first time he can be heard here as a conductor – with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, of which he is the musical director. The program includes Mozart’s late works, which were created at particularly precarious moments for the composer personally – and which, apparently, are of selected intensity and beauty regardless. The subtitle “Ecstasy and Abyss” – “Ecstasy and Abyssalness” – takes this unusual temporal coincidence into account. Martin Fröst can be heard with his third recording of the clarinet Concerto in A major K. 622, which he plays on the basset clarinet, as composed by Mozart. Martin Fröst also conducts the “Prague” Symphony in D major K. 504 and Mozart’s last symphony, the “Jupiter” Symphony in C major K. 551. The French pianist Lucas Debargue is the soloist at the piano concerto in C major K. 503, soprano Elin Rombo sings the concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te? – Non temer, amato bene” KV 505 and mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg the aria of Sesto “Parto, ma tu, ben mio” from the late seria opera “La Clemenza di Tito” KV 621, again accompanied by Martin Fröst on basset clarinet.

Tracklist:
1-01. Martin Fröst – Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”: I. Allegro vivace (11:23)
1-02. Martin Fröst – Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”: II. Andante cantabile (09:18)
1-03. Martin Fröst – Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”: III. Menuetto. Allegretto (04:10)
1-04. Martin Fröst – Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”: IV. Molto Allegro (08:31)
1-05. Martin Fröst – Recitative and Aria: “Ch’io mi scordi di te?” – “Non temer, amato bene”, K. 505 (10:39)
1-06. Martin Fröst – Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (15:50)
1-07. Martin Fröst – Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503: II. Andante (07:24)
1-08. Martin Fröst – Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503: III. Allegretto (08:58)

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