The plain Mozart Arias title of this debut release by the hot young soprano Regula Mühlemann may not attract the potential buyer's attention, but take a closer look: these are Mozart arias, it's true, but most of them are rarely heard, and they're fairly bold choices for a newcomer to the scene. Several are so-called insertion arias, written for performances of operas by other composers where a singer known to Mozart needed a piece written to order, whereas others are arias from lesser-known operas like the satire Der ...
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The plain Mozart Arias title of this debut release by the hot young soprano Regula Mühlemann may not attract the potential buyer's attention, but take a closer look: these are Mozart arias, it's true, but most of them are rarely heard, and they're fairly bold choices for a newcomer to the scene. Several are so-called insertion arias, written for performances of operas by other composers where a singer known to Mozart needed a piece written to order, whereas others are arias from lesser-known operas like the satire Der Schauspieldirektor, K 486. Sample that aria, "Da schliegt die Abschiedsstunde", which was written for Mozart's sister-in-law and former girlfriend Aloysia Weber. Of course it's impossible to know what she and the other singers described in Karl Böhmer's booklet notes sounded like, but what Mühlemann captures here is the element of playful display that a soprano at the time would have been looking for. Mozart carefully sets up an unexpected flight into the soprano's upper register, which...
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