Haydn: L'isola disabitata / Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
August 6, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HAYDN, JOSEPH
    • PERFORMER
      Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 06, 2021
    • UPC
      827949027567
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186275
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sinfonia

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    2. Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Qual contrasto non vince (Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    3. Part I Scene 2: Ah germana! Ah Costanza! (Silvia, Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im, Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    4. Part I Scene 2: Aria: Se non piange un'infelice (Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    5. Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Che ostinato dolor! (Silvia)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    6. Part I Scene 4: Ma sarà poi, Gernando (Enrico, Gernando, Silvia)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: André Morsch, Krystian Adam, Sunhae Im

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    7. Part I Scene 5: Aria: Chi nel cammin d'onore (Enrico)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: André Morsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    8. Part I Scene 6: Che fu mai quel ch'io vidi! (Silvia)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    9. Part I Scene 6: Aria: Fra un dolce deliro (Silvia)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    10. Part II Scene 7: Recitative: Ah presaga fu l'alma (Gernando, Enrico)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Krystian Adam, André Morsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    11. Part II Scene 7: Aria: Non turbar quand'io mi lagno (Gernando)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Krystian Adam

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    12. Part II Scene 8: Recitative: Non s'irriti fra' primi (Enrico)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: André Morsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    13. Part II Scene 10: Aria: Come il vapor s'accende in aria a poco a poco (Silvia)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    14. Part II Scene 11: Aria: Ah che in van per me pietoso (Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    15. Part II Scene 11: Recitative: Giacché de me lontana (Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    16. Part II Scene 12: Aria: Giacché il pietoso amico (Gernando, Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Krystian Adam, Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    17. Part II Scene 13: Ignora il caro amico (Enrico, Costanza)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: André Morsch, Anett Fritsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    18. Part II Scene 13: Finale: Costanza, Costanza (Silvia, Costanza, Enrico, Gernando)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Sunhae Im, Anett Fritsch, André Morsch, Krystian Adam

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck

    19. Part II Scene 13: Quartet: Sono contenta appieno, appresso al caro bene (Costanza, Gernando, Silvia, Enrico)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Anett Fritsch, Krystian Adam, Sunhae Im, André Morsch

      Conductor: Bernhard Forck


The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata (The Desert Island), together with an excellent quartet of vocalists.

Officially called an azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with a happy ending, set on an exotic deserted island. Special about this opera is that Haydn chose orchestral accompaniment for the entire work, with colourful and dramatic accompagnato recitatives. In Haydn’s printed score, many of the elaborate instrumental sections were deliberately cut, because he feared that they demanded too much from the players, and that some audiences may not have been cultured enough to fully appreciate them. Special about this recording is that these parts have all been reinstated, using a recent edition by Thomas Busse.

The seasoned players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, led by Bernhard Forck, play this lavish score with fervour and swing, while Anett Fritsch (Costanza), Sunhae Im (Silvia), Krystian Adam (Gernando) and André Morsch (Enrico) offer an equally virtuosic vocal delivery.

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is generally seen as one of the best period-instruments ensembles of today, and has a substantial PENTATONE discography.

REVIEW:

Haydn's opera L'isola disabitata ("The Uninhabited Island") was premiered in 1779. In one act, it was termed an azione per musica, suggesting a more compact work than an opera seria, and it has just four voice parts. The quartet of singers is fine, led with pleasant lightness by mezzo-soprano Sunhae Im in the lead role of the abandoned Costanza. The main attraction, though, is the work of the venerable Akademie für alte Musik, which has kept itself vibrant and relevant since its days behind the Iron Curtain. With Bernhard Forck leading the group from the first violinist's chair, they completely avoid the mechanical quality that often infests Baroque groups that move into Classical repertory; they grasp the essential forward-moving trajectory of the music and don't linger too much on the serviceable but ordinary arias. A totally satisfying Haydn opera release.

-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)