Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias

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This is a wonderful disc, the most exciting and enterprising operatic recital I have heard for a very long time...Kaufmann has everything, and at the age of 40 his voice may well be in its finest... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Sep 2010
Catalogue No: 4782258
Label: Decca
Length: 61 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

27th September 2010
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2011

Vocal Finalist
BBC Music Magazine

December 2010

Opera Choice
Gramophone Awards

2011

Winner - Recital
Opera

December 2010

Recording of the Month

Zandonai: Giulietta e Romeo / Act 3

Work length4:48

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Giulietta! Son io!"

Track length4:48

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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier / Act 1

Work length4:53

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Colpito qui m'avete … Un dì all’azzurro spazio"

Track length4:53

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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier / Act 4

Work length2:52

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Come un bel dì di maggio"

Track length2:52

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Cilea: L'Arlesiana / Act 2

Work length4:35

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"E la solita storia"

Track length4:35

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Leoncavallo: La bohème / Act 3

Work length3:21

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Musetta! O gioia della mia dimora! - Testa adorata"

Track length3:21

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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1

Work length3:41

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"

Track length3:41

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Excerpt, Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Work length6:38

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Cristina Reale (soprano), Rosa Feola (soprano)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Intanto, amici, qua...Viva il vino spumeggiante"

Track length2:50

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"Mamma, quel vino è generoso"

Track length3:48

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Boito: Mefistofele: Act 1

Work length2:35

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Dai campi, dai prati"

Track length2:35

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Boito: Mefistofele / Act 4

Work length3:23

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Giunto sul passo estremo"

Track length3:23

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Giordano, U: Fedora / Act 2

Work length1:48

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Amor ti vieta"

Track length1:48

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Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 2

Work length2:02

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

L'anima ho stanca

Track length2:02

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Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur / Act 1

Work length2:31

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"La dolcissima effigie"

Track length2:31

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Ponchielli: I Lituani / Act 3

Work length2:32

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Sì...questa estrema grazia"

Track length2:32

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Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op.9 / Act 2

Work length5:23

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Cielo e mar"

Track length5:23

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Refice: Ombra di Nube

Work length3:23

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier / Act 4

Work length7:18

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Recorded: 2010-03-22
Recording Venue: Petrassi Hall, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome

"Vicino a te s'acqueta"

Track length7:18

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Recording of the Week, Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias

27th September 2010

The star tenor branches out from his usual French and German repertoire with an idiomatically Italianate recital of arias by Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea and Boito, accompanied by Antonio Pappano and his Roman orchestra.

Jonas Kaufmann returns to the Italian verismo tradition to sing arias that define opera’s most passionate and vulnerable leading men.

Kaufmann’s international reputation is soaring as, going from strength to strength, he delivers consistently thrilling performances.

The onyx-dark beauty of his tone and the refinement and unexpected insights of his delivery mark Jonas Kaufmann a poet of tenors.

Timed for release when he makes his anticipated role debut as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur at Covent Garden opposite Angela Gheorghiu, this disc includes excerpts from the Cilea work that helped put Caruso on the map.

This album also entices with rarities from Zandonai’s dramatic Giulietta e Romeo and Puccini’s Le Villi.

Supporting Jonas Kaufmann is Italy’s leading symphonic orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, under its dynamic music director Antonio Pappano. Both maestro and orchestra are utterly at home in this repertoire.

Reviews

Christmas 2010

This is a wonderful disc, the most exciting and enterprising operatic recital I have heard for a very long time...Kaufmann has everything, and at the age of 40 his voice may well be in its finest shape. He brings a Classical training to these arias, and yet he doesn't in any degree stint on the passion.

February 2011

It seems he really is able to do anything: his rich, dark-hued tenor lends itself to dramatic singing (a raging, heartbroken 'Vesti la giubba'), yet he can also caress a pianissimo vocal line and float exquisite top notes (Cilea's Lamento di Federico)...The other stars of the disc are Pappano and his Santa Cecilia orchestra who perfectly capture the music's passionate, glowing ebb and flow.

23rd October 2010

Kaufmann sings Giordano (“Come un bel dì di maggio”), Leoncavallo (“Vesti la giubba”), Mascagni (“Mamma!”) and others with lusty good taste

December 2010

The accompaniments are special..[Pappano] is hugely alert to detail, weighting and what's happening on the imaginary stage around the singer...Kaufmann has entered this world most completely. His Italian is good, as are his desire and ability to project clearly differentiated characters. He is never afraid to sing softly...and there is plenty of power when needed.

November 2010

Not only does Kaufmann have a fine voice but he knows how to use it: admirable technique, interpretative ability and much intelligence when it comes to changes of colour, gradations of tone and weight and the willingness to sing softly. There is nothing monochromatic about his performances

a brave, dedicated and altogether arresting piece of work...a series of steps in unfamiliar directions, taken boldly and with complete confidence and conviction... the sheer originality, versatility and freshness-the excellence-of what Kaufmann creates in every piece demands from the listener a comparable willingness to bring fresh ears to the listening.

27th September 2010

Technically, Kaufmann is so secure that he can concentrate entirely on the music and communicating the emotions. And what I find really impressive is that Kaufmann is able to get so inside the characters to such a degree that his breathing changes and his entire sound alters. I’m sure it is not a conscious thing and it really blows you away.

24th October 2010

...there is rare sensitivity to the words in his Lamento di Federico (Cilea’s L’Arlesiana) and Turiddu’s Mamma, quel vino è generoso (Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana). The best news is Kaufmann’s thrilling Andrea Chénier (Giordano): a gripping Improviso is followed by a soaring Come un bel dì di maggio

16th December 2010

The only really well-known pieces are those from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, which Kaufmann delivers with the same directness and perfectly judged musicality that he uses for the far less familiar ones. The colour, the elegance and the sheer beauty of tone in his singing are truly exceptional

22nd October 2010

One might think the musicianship of the tenor Jonas Kaufmann would be wasted on the frankly third-rate music of the verismo composers. But given his emotional commitment and powerful middle register, this recital proves an irresistible outpouring of melodrama

8th October 2010

Italian repertoire now, is it? Given the prodigious gifts of the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann we shouldn’t be too surprised. But there’s still considerable novelty as that darkly lustrous voice plunges headlong into anguish...Fluent in Italian, Kaufmann is equally at ease navigating the arias’ vocal and emotional tempests.

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