Sylvia McNair, Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, BPO : Mozart Concert Aria K.505

Sylvia McNair, Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker :
Mozart Concert Aria K.505: "Ch'io mi scordi di te?... Non temer, amato bene", for soprano, piano and orchestra.
Live recording. Salzburg Festspiele 16.4.1993

[@albertcombrink3717]

OH MY GOODNESS! What a treasure.

[@jimbuxton2187]

Sylvia sounds liked she was born to sing this aria.....it fits her like a glove!

[@huismanq]

Oh! Thank you SO much!

[@vaughangarrick]

Never heard this piece before until now

[@user-zt6hu8wq6b]

5:50

[@hyweldavid3661]

Too, too fabulous, Charles. Huge thanks, Hywel x

[@johnmorrisrussell4680]

Wonderful. Thanks so much, Charles

[@strawberry3634]

Thank you very much!! ☺️

[@tanyadixon3479]

The great Sylvia McNair, with Miss Argerich! Thanks for posting this.

[@mcintertz5593]

What a treat, what a great trio - and wonderful to hear Argerich in this repertoire. Her mozart was always brilliant. Do you have the rest of the concert?

[@CharlesCouineau]

No I don’t have it unfortunately. I don’t know what else was on the program

[@remkojas3282]

11. 4. 1993, 11:00, Großes Festspielhaus Franz Schubert Symphonie Nr. 7 h-Moll D 759 "Unvollendete" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Szene mit Rondo "Ch'io mi scordi di te" KV 505 Giuseppe Verdi "Non t'accostare all'urna" aus "Sechs Romanzen" Ruggero Leoncavallo Aprile Richard Strauss Zueignung op. 10/1 Richard Strauss Allerseelen op. 10/8 Gustav Mahler Aus den Kindertotenliedern: Nr. 1 "Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn" und Nr. 5 "In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus" Richard Wagner Aus Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel zum ersten Akt und Isoldes Liebestod Soprano (Mozart): Sylvia McNair Baritone (Leoncavallo): Leo Nucci Soprano (Strauss): Carol Vaness Mezzo-soprano (Mahler): Marjana Lipovsek Piano (Mozart): Martha Argerich Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker Conductor, Piano: Sir Georg Solti Conductor: Claudio Abbado Presenter: Sir Peter Ustinov

[@francescoelia.marino]

I think, and I could be wrong, that Abbado was pushing Martha to play things she would have not played otherwise. @Charles I was already following your Instagram but I wasn't aware of all the beautiful videos here on youtube! Thank you for uploading!

[@CharlesCouineau]

You will see that there are many amazing things to come on this KZbin channel !

[@francescoelia.marino]

@@CharlesCouineau :-) Do you think there is any audio of Martha playing the Empereor Piano Concerto?

[@brunopicaude3092]

At Mozart's time, only four words were used to classify the voices: Baß and Tenor for the men; Alt and Sopran for the women. With that, the composers wrote for specific soloists with their specific voices. The result is that when you are a deep baß, or a baryton, or a mezzo, or a high soprano (as Sylvia Mac Nair), not all the arias set very well with your own voice. This aria, although written for "Sopran, Klavier und Orchester" is very often sung by mezzo-soprani (Berganza, Bartoli...) because the ambitus is from he low A-flat to the high B-flat. The mezzi are more comfortable with this tessitura. But I must admit that Sylvia Mc Nair does a good job with his pretty voice, although she's not here in the best part of her register.

[@giovic9802]

9:45

[@bobschaaf2549]

Dull! Dull! Dull! Sylvia McNair is a cut above Dawn Upshaw, but still colorless and without a trace of frisson.

[@zebeauv]

Martha fait chanter son piano aussi bien que la Soprano ne chante…

[@rev.stephena.cakouros948]

No room for improvement from what I can see.

[@hdhrhehhdehhd4620]

what happened at the end? the singer make a "disgusted" gesture when shaking argerich's hands

[@liedersanger1]

I didn’t see anything like that. Sylvia smiled graciously at Martha, shook her hand, then made a gesture as if to say “Let’s make room for you here.”

[@babsboonzaaier4621]

Beautiful! See no disgusting gesture

[@irenemoews1410]

I have watched her in other concerts (2nd S. by G.Mahler, C.Abbado, BPO) and she always (like here) applauded to the other musicians, something that not many singers do in this way.

[@frogmouth]

???

[@ruhehanse7378]

La pubblicità che impietosamente interrompe un opera d’arte…KZbin di m….a! Non passerò mai alla versione a pagamento!!!!