Mozart: La Betulia Liberata / Favero, Oficina Musicum

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 30, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Coro E Orchestra Dell?Oficina Musicum
    • PERFORMER
      Favero
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 30, 2013
    • UPC
      5028421944968
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI94496
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    2. Part I: Recitative: Popoli di Betulia (Ozia)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    3. Part I: Aria: D'ogni colpa (Ozia)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    4. Part I: Recitative: E in che sperar? (Cabri, Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Patrizia Vaccari, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    5. Part I: Aria: Ma qual virtu (Cabri)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Patrizia Vaccari, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    6. Part I: Recitative: Gia le memorie antiche (Ozia, Cabri, Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Patrizia Vaccari, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    7. Part I: Aria: Non hai cor (Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    8. Part I: Recitative: E quel pace sperate (Ozia, Amital, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    9. Part I: Aria: E quel pace Sperate (Ozia, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    10. Part I: Recitative: Chi e costei (Cabri, Amital, Ozia, Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Patrizia Vaccari, Angela Bucci, Baltazar Zúñiga, Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    11. Part I: Aria: Dal pari infeconda (Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    12. Part I: Recitative: Oh saggia, oh santa (Ozia, Cabri, Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Patrizia Vaccari, Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    13. Part I: Aria: Pieta, se irato sei (Ozia, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    14. Part I: Recitative: Signor, Carmi a te viene (Cabri, Amital, Ozia, Achior)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Patrizia Vaccari, Angela Bucci, Baltazar Zúñiga, Abramo Rosalen, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    15. Part I: Aria: Terribile d'aspetto (Anchior)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Abramo Rosalen, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    16. Part II: Recitative: Ti consola, Achior (Ozia, Cabri, Achior, Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Abramo Rosalen, Patrizia Vaccari, Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    17. Part I: Aria: Parto inerme, e non pavento (Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    18. Part I: Oh prodigio! Oh stupor! (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    19. Part II: Recitative: Troppo mal corrisponde (Achior, Ozia)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Abramo Rosalen, Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    20. Part II: Aria: Se Dio veder tu vuoi (Ozia)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    21. Part II: Recitative: Confuso io son (Achior, Ozia, Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Abramo Rosalen, Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    22. PArt II: Aria: Quel nocchier (Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    23. Part II: Recitative: Lungamente non dura (Ozia, Amital, Chorus, Cabri, Giuditta, Achior)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Patrizia Vaccari, Elena Biscuola, Abramo Rosalen, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    24. Part II: Aira: Prigionier che fa ritorno (Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    25. Part II: Recitative: Giuditta, Ozia, popoli, amici (Anchior)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Abramo Rosalen, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    26. Part II: Aria: Te solo adoro (Anchior)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Abramo Rosalen, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    27. Part II: Recitative: Di tua vittoria (Ozia, Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    28. Part II: Aria: Con troppa rea vilta (Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    29. Part II: Recitative: Quanta cura hai di noi (Cabri, Carmi, Ozia, Amital)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Patrizia Vaccari, Pamela Luciarini, Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    30. Part II: Aria: Quei moti che senti (Carmi)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Pamela Luciarini, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    31. Part II: Recitative: Seguansi, o Carmi (Ozia, Amital, Cabri, Achior, Giuditta)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Baltazar Zúñiga, Angela Bucci, Patrizia Vaccari, Abramo Rosalen, Elena Biscuola, Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero

    32. Part II: Lodi al gran Dio (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Oficina Musicum Chorus, Oficina Musicum Orchestra

      Performer: Riccardo Favero

      Conductor: Riccardo Favero


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most influential composers of all time. The child prodigy would become the author of some of today's best loved instrumental works, and a true king of sung drama. La Betulia liberata KV118/74c, the only oratorio he ever produced, was written by a relatively young Wolfgang whose potential is immediately obvious, even in his mid-teens.

La Betulia liberata, rarely performed or recorded, was commissioned by Don Giuseppe Ximenes, Prince of Aragon, in 1771 while Mozart was undertaking a tour of Italy with his father, Leopold. The text, by Pietro Metastasio, is based on the story of the Book of Judith, which appears in the Apocrypha of the Bible, and the oratorio is written in a seria style. The work also showcases the beginnings of a composer who would become famous for his employment of dramatic contrast and characterisation, as well as providing a psychological insight to his characters through the music. Two highlights are undoubtedly Nos. 11 and 14; in the former, the noblewoman Amital compares the plight of Bethulia to the desperation of a ship in a storm, portrayed in the music, and in the latter, Amital's changing mood is perfectly depicted as arrogance turns to docility -- a forerunner to Mozart's more challengingly unstable female protagonists, Donna Elvira and Vitellia.

The recording boasts a wealth of critically acclaimed vocalists. They are accompanied by the Coro e Orchestra dell'Oficina Musicum, directed from the harpsichord by Riccardo Favero.

Other information:
- Recorded September 2006, Chiesa della Scalabrini, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
- The only "modern" recording available as a single issue!
- Mozart wrote this oratorio, his only one, in his mid-teens, and his genius was immediately evident in the dramatic choruses, moving arias and instrumental brilliance of this early masterwork.
- Excellent line up of soloists and Italian orchestral forces and conductor.
- Extensive liner notes and synopsis in the booklet.