Regula Mühlemann - Mozart Arias II (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Soprano Regula Mühlemann is releasing her second album of Mozart arias with the Basel Chamber Orchestra on the Sony Classical label on September 4, 2020. The Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann released her debut album on the Sony label in 2016, when she chose a selection of opera and concert arias by Mozart.

The response was overwhelmingly positive. One reviewer spoke of being “in a Mozartian heaven”, while BR-Klassik hailed the depth of the singer’s interpretative powers and the bell-like purity of her voice, which was said to retain its wonderful natural warmth even at the very top of its range: “This combination makes Regula Mühlemann an outstanding Mozartian” was the reviewer’s conclusion. Mozart Arias won the German Record Critics’ Prize.

Since then it is not just as a Mozartian that Regula Mühlemann has conquered the world’s opera houses and concert halls, she has also released two other albums on the Sony Classical label, both of them equally well received: Cleopatra and Lieder der Heimat. She has additionally appeared twice at the ZDF Advent Concert and as a prizewinner at the 2018 ZDF Opus Klassik Gala.

For her latest album – and adopting the motto “Never change a winning team!” – she returns to Mozart with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under the direction of conductor Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli. She has now chosen nine of her favourite arias, numbers as virtuosic as they are emotionally affecting and including arias from Die Zauberflöte, Il re pastore, Lucio Silla, Zaide, La finta semplice and Idomeneo as well as a concert aria Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle K538 and an insertion aria Un moto di gioia K579.

TRACKLIST

1. Regula Mühlemann - Idomeneo, K. 366, Act III: Solitudini amiche.Zeffiretti lusinghieri (Ilia)
2. Regula Mühlemann - Le nozze die Figaro, K. 492, Act IV: Giunse alfin il momento… Deh vieni non tardar (Susanna)
3. Regula Mühlemann - Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act II: In un Istante… Parto, m'affretto (Giunia)
4. Regula Mühlemann - Il re pastore, K. 208, Act II: L'amerò, sarò costante (Aminta)
5. Regula Mühlemann - Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act II: Ach, ich fühl's (Pamina)
6. Regula Mühlemann - Zaide, K. 344, Act I: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide)
7. Regula Mühlemann - Un moto di gioia mi sento, K. 579
8. Regula Mühlemann - La Finta semplice, K. 51: Amoretti (Rosina)
9. Regula Mühlemann - Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K. 538



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