Cecilia Bartoli at Pleyel with Mozart, Haydn ....and me !(26 /XI/13)

Mozart and Classical Wien. Kammerorchester Basel under Muhal Tang

Salle Pleyel was full that evening and humming with joy and expectations at the prospect of listening to this beloved artist who gives so much to her audience and shares her passion for music where ever she goes ! 

 Her love for singing is catching and her enthusiasm and frankness on stage have something which only belongs to her: she is amazing in her coloratura and feeling the music she sings. That night it was centered on  the pains and tortures of love.

I was so happy to be there and at last able to see her in  Mozart and Haydn, arias she sung at the beginning of her career, as early as 1990 at Hamburg Opera she sang Idamantes and was only 24 years old... Her love with Mozart occured early in her musical public life, not to mention her fantastic success as a Rossinian singer in 1988 with Rosina, one of her best seller role!

She appeared in her baroque  black  costume and opulent white shirt with the large collar overflowing at the open front of her long coat,  the leather leggings replaced by black shining trousers almost silky and velvety as well. As she was Sesto and Genio, she kept this young man appearance until after the catching Joseph Martin Kraus Olympie Ouverture, unknown to me like almost all the Haydn arias, that was just fantastic to discover them with a really fine baroque orchestra. Cecilia Bartoli always tours Europe with the best baroque ensembles and that is why I make a point in being there even if I am quite far from the stage!

She had her gorgeous long hair this time plaited at the back and had no curly vivid locks bouncing to her singing pace like some years ago... 

Then for the last aria, the most moving one with all sorts of feelings and expressivenes, she appeared in a long black dress with top lace and had her hair undone at the back... real feminine appearance for the last moments!She was Berenice and I was completely overwhelmed by this part.

After two encores, ( Mozart Exsultate jubilate, like the beginning! and then a peaceful Voi que sapete, real delight...) thundering applause freed the emotions and love of this full house. She had a signature session planned in the hall and I found myself nearly at the back of a long queue, my head buzzing with her voice and so happy to be there waiting...she was having nice words with every one, paying attention, listening and getting up for  photos very often. I was very moved to thank her for all she gives, and she signed the album,...with a little heart in her name.... It was 11h30pm when I left Pleyel  and I was not the last one.

Tuesday 11/26 2013 8:00 PM

Basel - Muhai Tang

• Cecilia Bartoli : mezzo-soprano
  

• Kammerorchester Basel
• Muhai Tang : conducting
• Stefano Barneschi : concertmaster

PROGRAMM

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Exsultate jubilate, KV 165
• Joseph Haydn
• Extrait de la Symphonie n° 52 en Ut mineur, H. I/52 (Allegro Assai)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "Parto, parto" (Air de Sesto, extrait de La clemenza di Tito)
• Josef Myslivecek
• Ouverture (extrait de Medonte)
• "Se mai senti" (Air de Sesto, extrait de La clemenza di Tito)
• Joseph Haydn
• "Al tuo seno fortunato" (Air de Genio, extrait de L'anima del fislosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice, Hob. XXVIII:13)
• Entracte
• Joseph Haydn
• Extrait de la Symphonie n° 13 (Adagio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "Deh, per questo istante" (Air de Sesto, extrait de La clemenza di Tito, KV 621)
• Johann Baptist Vanhal
• Extrait de la Symphonie en Sol mineur (Finale-allegro)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "Ch'io mi scordi di te... Non temer, amato bene" (Scène et Rondo, extrait d'Idomeneo)
• Joseph Martin Kraus
• Extrait d'Olympie (Ouverture)
• Joseph Haydn
• "Berenice, che fai" Cantate Hob. XXIVa:10

Mozart et la Vienne classique