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1. Kyrie. Andante moderato
2. Gloria. Allegro vivace
3. Laudamus te. Allegro aperto
4. Gratias. Adagio
5. Domine. Allegro moderato
6. Qui tollis. Largo
7. Quoniam. Allegro
8. Jesu Christe. Adagio
9. Cum sancto spiritu
10. Sanctus. Largo
11. Osanna. Allegro comodo
12. Benedictus. Allegro comodo
Monteverdi Choir. Diana Montague - contralto, Cornelius Hauptmann - bass. November 1986, London.
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Andante
3. Allegro vivace assai
Recorded: April 1986, London.
Harry Peeters, Michael Schade, Cynthia Sieden, Christiane Oelze, Gerald Finley, Constanze Backes. Live, 1995.
Das von Franz Xaver Süssmayr vervollständigte Requiem in der traditionellen Gestalt
Barbara Bonney, Soprano, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-soprano, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Tenor, Alastair Miles, Bass. Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists.
Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, December 1991.
Bryn Terfel(bass) - Figaro, Alison Hagley(soprano) - Susanna, Rodney Gilfry(baritone) - Conte de Almaviva, Hillevi Martinpelto(soprano) - Contessa de Almaviva, Pamela Helen Stephen(mezzo-soprano) - Cherubino, Susan McCulloch(soprano) - Marcelina, Carlos Feller(bass-baritone) - Bartolo, Francis Egerton(tenor) - Basilio / Don Curzio, Julian Clarkson(baritone) - Antonio, Costanze Beckes(soprano) - Barbarina
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegro assai
Recorded: March 1987, London.
1. Molto allegro
2. Andante
3. Menuetto Allegretto
4. Allegro assai
Recorded: December 1989, London.
1. Allegro
2. Romance
3. Rondo Allegro assai
Recorded: April 1986, London.
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto
3. Allegretto
Recorded: May 1988, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Rondeaux. Allegro
Recorded: October 1987, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andante un poco Adagio
3. Rondeau. Allegro
Recorded: October 1987, London.
The action takes place on the island of Crete after the Trojan War.
Act 1
Captive Trojan princess mourns murdered father and missing brothers. But do not hate and love for his son of the Cretan king Idamantu owns her heart. Idamant loves Elijah and she wants to return for the freedom of prisoners Trojans. Electra betrothed bride Idamanta betrayed a fit of jealousy. Meanwhile Arbas brings news that the Cretan king Idomeneo returning from the walls of Troy to his homeland died at sea. To save his life and the lives of his companions Neptune Idomeneo vowed to bring him as a sacrifice of the first who will meet in their native shore. The first in a hurry to greet his father Idamant.
Act 2
Idomeneo consults Arbasom how to save his son. They send Idamanta with Elektra in her native Argos. Idomeneo will grant Trojan prisoners but Elijah asks to remain in Crete. Idomeneo realizes mutual love Elijah and Idamanta. Electra happy Idamant be hers. Once Idamant Electra and get into the ship the angry Neptune sent a sea monster to Crete. The people running away in fear.
Act 3
Despite the wrath of Neptune Idomeneo insists on leaving Idamanta but Idamant decides to join the battle with the monster and defeats him. The High Priest of Neptune King warns of disasters that befall his people for non oath. Idomeneo is ready to sacrifice his son. Elijah wants to pay for Idamanta life. Neptune moved by her love and by the oracle commands Idomeneo leave the throne and pass it Idamantu after his marriage to Elijah. People singing the praises of the gods but Elektra is not involved in jubilation pursued furies of jealousy she pierces his chest with a dagger.
Premiered on January 29 1781 in Munich.
1. Allegro
2. Andante ma un poco Adagio
3. Allegro
1. Adagio - Allegro
2. Andante
3. Finale. Presto
English Baroque Soloists, con. John Eliot Gardiner / 1988, London
Belmont, a Spanish nobleman - Stanford Olsen (tenor)
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
Recorded: May 1983, London.
Act One.
Vittel the daughter of the murdered emperor Titus wants to avenge the death of his father and persuades her lover to Sextus to participate in a conspiracy against him. Having learned however that the emperor refused his marriage to Veronica Tsilitsiyskoy and sent it to Jerusalem Vittel itself intends to become his wife and stops Sextus. Titus also wants to see his wife sister of Sextus Servilia which sends a message to Annius a friend Sextus who is himself in love with Servilia long. Titus Servilia decides to tell the truth but he says that if the Emperor would insist on marriage she obeyed. Titus touched by candor Servilia gives the nod to their marriage with Annius.
Meanwhile Vittel having learned that the emperor chose his wife Servilia again imbued with hatred for him and asks Sextus kill Titus. Shortly after leaving Sextus appear Annius and Publius who report Vittel that the emperor wished to see her his wife. Vittel in turmoil.
Sextus led rebels close to the imperial palace the crowd sets fire to it. Sextus reports that he saw Titus died. Action ends the general chorus mourned the Emperor.
Act II.
Soon discover however that Titus is alive but instead it took the death of one of his entourage dressed in imperial clothes. Rebellion suppressed and Sextus wants to commit suicide but Vittel takes him a dagger. Publius Sextus arrest and bring him to the court of the Senate. Senate condemns him to death but Titus decides to talk to him and find out the truth about the mutiny. Sextus takes all the blame on himself not wanting to give Vittel and Titus in spite of internal impulses sign a death sentence.
On the day of execution Vittel decides to confess all to Titus who generously forgives her and Sextus. The opera ends with a general chorus praising the wisdom and mercy of the emperor.
Premiere - the Estates Theatre in Prague September 6 1791.
Tito - Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Sesto - Anne Sofie von Otter, Servilia - Sylvia McNair, Vitellia - Julia Varady, Annio - Catherine Robbin, Publio - Cornelius Hauptmann. Recorded: June 1990, London.
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andantino
3. Allegro ma non troppo
Recorded: May 1983, London.
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto
3. Allegretto
Recorded: October 1986, London.
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto
3. Allegro
Recorded: May 1988, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Rondo. Allegro
Recorded: March 1987, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andantino
3. Rondeau. Presto
Recorded: June 1983, London.
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante cantabile
3. Menuetto Allegretto
4. Molto allegro
Recorded: December 1989, London.
Recorded: February 9, 2006, London.
1. Allegro aperto
2. Andante
3. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto
The English Baroque Soloists
1. Allegro
2. Allegretto
3. Allegro assai
Recorded: March & April 1984, London.
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto
3. Tempo di Menuetto
Recorded: June 1983, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegro
1776 * For Countess Antonia Lodron and her two daughters
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto
Recorded: October 1987, London.
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
Recorded: October 1986, London.
1. Adagio - Allegro
2. Andante con moto in A-flat major
3. Menuetto - Trio
4. Allegro
Recorded: December 1988, London.
Recorded: February 9, 2006, London.
1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante
3. Menuetto
4. Finale Presto
1. Allegro assai
2. Andante
3. Rondeau Allegro di molto
Recorded: April 1985, London.
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegro
Recorded: March & April 1984, London.
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante un poco sostenuto
3. Allegro vivace
Recorded: March & April 1984, London.
1. Allegro assai
2. Andantino
3. Allegro
2 bis. Replacement 2nd movement Andante
English Baroque Soloists, con. John Eliot Gardiner / 1988
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists. 1988.
Thamos, König in Ägypten, K.345 (K.336a) (1779). Alastair Miles, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner. Label: Deutsche Grammophon. Int. Release 01 Jul. 1993.
1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante
3. Menuetto - Trio
4. Presto
to Idomeneo the King of Krit
English Baroque Soloists, con. John Eliot Gardiner.
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante
3. Menuetto
4. Allegro con spirito
English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner (cond.) / 1990s?
1. Allegro spiritoso
2. Andante
3. Tempo primo
On December 3 1778 from Mannheim Mozart wrote to his father To please Herr von Gemmingen and myself I am now composing the first act of the declaimed opera which I was commissioned to write and I am also doing this for nothing; I shall bring it with me and finish it at homeHerr von Gemmingen is the poet of courseand the duodrama is called Semiramis. Nothing else is known of this duodrama. In an 1994 article Laurenz Lutteken believes some of Thamos music originally for Semiramis project.
1993 (Deutsche Grammophon)
1. Allegro assai
2. Andante moderato
3. Menuetto
4. Allegro assai
English Baroque Soloists, con. John Eliot Gardiner / 1984, London
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante di molto
3. Allegro molto
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
Recorded: April 1985, London.
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