Mozart made in Salzburg Rafael Fingerlos, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg & Leopold Hager

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 1 Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo (KV 584) 05:16
• 2 Mozart: Warnung (KV 433) 02:03
• 3 Mozart: Nur mutig, mein Herze (Zaide KV 344) 04:24
• 4 Mozart: Se vuol ballare (Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492) 03:11
• 5 Mozart: Hai già vinta la causa (Le Nozze di Figaro) 04:55
• 6 Mozart: Deh vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni KV 527) 01:58
• 7 Mozart: Donne mie (Così fan tutte KV 588) 03:09
• 8 Mozart: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Die Zauberflöte KV 620) 02:46
• 9 Mozart: Un bacio di mano (KV 541) 02:01
• 10 Mozart: Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein (KV 539) 02:46
• 11 Mozart: Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen (Die Zauberflöte) 04:03
• 12 Mozart: Non più andrai (Le Nozze di Figaro) 03:39
• 13 Mozart: An Chloë (KV 524) 02:35
• 14 Mozart: Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Don Giovanni) 05:21
• 15 Mozart: Aprite un po'quegl'occhi (Le Nozze di Figaro) 04:14
• 16 Mozart: Wie unglücklich bin ich nit (KV 147) 00:50
• 17 Mozart: Io ti lascio, o cara (KV 621a) 04:00
• 18 Mozart: Vedrò, mentre io sospiro (Le Nozze di Figaro, Cabaletta "Ah no, lasciarti in pace" der Wiener Fassung 1789) 03:32
• Total Runtime 01:00:43

Info for Mozart made in Salzburg

As a special, connecting and autobiographical element for this recording, the beautiful city of Salzburg is a legendary and inspiring place, deeply influenced by music history, which everyone involved in the production - from the composer, the conductor, the soloist to the orchestra musicians and the orchestra attendant - became hometown for at least an important period of life; in the actual as well as in the artistic sense.

In addition to the well-known repertoire, the recording of Rafael Fingerlos also offers delightful discoveries such as the rarely performed aria by Allazim from Zaide "Nur brave my heart!", The small concert aria Un bacio di man and even a veritable world premiere: the rarely performed and extreme Mozartian daring and fourteen (!) high Gs comprehensive cabaletta of the Conte Aria, which Mozart composed especially for the Conte singer at the Vienna Figaro world premiere. Beautiful, virtuoso, wild and spectacular.

The following applies to this recording: less is more. Less editing, but always the decision in favor of natural and musical phrasing. And the goal is always to hit a sound that is as close as possible to the live experience and that can also be reproduced at any time in a concert. As authentic and, above all, as natural as possible.

Rafael Fingerlos, baritone
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg
Leopold Hager, conductor

Rafael Fingerlos
was born in Salzburg, Austria. In November 2013 he received a master’s degree in voice, with honours, from the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität, where he studied with Uta Schwabe. He has deepened his artistic education in masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager and Helmut Deutsch. The young baritone is a laureate of national and international competitions.

In summer 2015 he took part in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project and in 2016 he returned to the Salzburg Festival as Pablo in the world premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel. He made his début at the Semperoper Dresden in spring 2016 as Pagageno, and in autumn 2016 he toured the Netherlands with the Nationale Reisopera as Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos. With the 2016/17 season he became a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Staatsoper; after visiting Japan with the company, once again as Harlekin, he made his début at the Staatsoper itself as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and went on to sing Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus on New Year’s Day 2017. In 2017 he made his début at the Bregenz Festival as Moralès in Carmen and in 2018 at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten. During 2017/18 he returns to Dresden as Figaro in Barbiere and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. 2018/19 he will be Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos in Dresden in a new production conducted by Christian Thielemann.

Recitals occupy a central position in Rafael Fingerlos‘ artistic activity. He has appeared at a number of Austrian and international festivals, including the Roskilde Festival Schubertiaden in Denmark, the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival in the Netherlands, the Znojmo and Kutna Hora Festivals in the Czech Republic, the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Germany, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland and has sung in Vienna at both the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, at the Salzburg Mozarteum, in London, Milan, Den Haag, Opéra de Nice and Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

His repertoire of concert and church music encompasses numerous cantatas, oratorios and masses, including Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah and the Brahms and Fauré Requiems. He has sung Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the prestigious Kreuzchor Dresden in April 2017 and will tour Austria and Italy with Bach’s Mass in b-minor with L’Orfeo Barockorchester and Michi Gaigg in 2018. He will sing Die Schöpfung with Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir and Laurence Equilbey in summer 2018 at a number of prestigious festivals.

Rafael has recorded Bach cantatas for Harmonia mundi with Das Neue Orchester and conductor Christoph Spering, and, released on Toccata Classics, songs by the Austrian-American composer Robert Fürstenthal. His début Lied recital with Oehms Classics titles Stille und Nacht (Silence and night).

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