Soprano Carolyn Sampson looks a little surprised to be featured on the front cover of Hyperion's Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate! With the notable exception of its redoubtable Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Hyperion seldom makes use of artist images on the front cover, preferring instead to match a period artwork to the musical content inside. An additional surprise is the choice of repertoire here, as Robert King and the King's Consort have heretofore never recorded music more modern than that of Handel. The program consists ...
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Soprano Carolyn Sampson looks a little surprised to be featured on the front cover of Hyperion's Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate! With the notable exception of its redoubtable Hyperion Schubert Lieder Edition, Hyperion seldom makes use of artist images on the front cover, preferring instead to match a period artwork to the musical content inside. An additional surprise is the choice of repertoire here, as Robert King and the King's Consort have heretofore never recorded music more modern than that of Handel. The program consists of both Mozart settings of "Regina coeli," the settings of "Laudate Dominum" from his Vespers Ks. 321 and 339, the "Agnus Dei" from the Coronation Mass, and a couple of his shorter motets. The seldom-recorded "Milan" version of Exsultate Jubilate is employed here -- this is a revision of Mozart's work that replaces the oboe parts with flutes and offers a different text from the familiar one. Sampson is hardly an ingénue; she has already been featured in solo parts on 15 discs by...
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