Daniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht), Marcos Fink (Sarastro), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
“René Jacobs’s Mozart opera series [is] one of the recorded marvels of our time” James Jolly, Gramophone, February 2009
We are proud to introduce our biggest priority release for the Autumn: Die Zauberflöte conducted by René Jacobs.
This eagerly anticipated recording represents a major triumph for harmonia mundi and we will be giving it our full marketing support to ensure the album achieves the major success we believe it deserves.
Here are some reminders of Jacobs’ achievements to date: from Gramophone Recording of the Year to the Grammy® Awards, Jacobs’ world-renowned Mozart opera recordings been celebrated by the most prestigious award organisations across the globe. A distinguished expert in the field, René Jacobs’ previous opera recordings have enjoyed a sales history of over 65,000 physical units per title.
Die Zauberflöte will benefit from a diverse online marketing campaign, including a multi-lingual ‘magic flute discovery’ newsletter series and dedicated marketing blog reaching an audience of over 30,000 people.
Enjoy one of the few full studio recordings made of such a popular opera in recent history.
This recording represents the peak of René Jacobs’s Mozartian enterprise: after showing us an alternative way of looking at the Da Ponte trilogy and taking a profoundly innovative approach to the two great opere serie (Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito), he has now sets out to harmonise and clarify the myriad viewpoints exposed in Die Zauberflöte, ranging far beyond its Masonic rituals and mixture of dramatic genres.
As a result, Mozart’s most ‘nocturnal’ work is illuminated as if by . . . magic.
314pp booklet with essay by René Jacobs and full libretto Fr, Ger, Eng
Included : special leaflet about Mozart by Jacobs
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Gramophone Awards
2011
Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine
November 2010
Opera Choice
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Record Review
December 2010
Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine
Awards Issue 2010
Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards
2011
Opera Award Winner
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Building a Library
November 2020
Recommended Recording
November 2010
...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly alive with fantasy, profoundly musical imagination, real magic, and real fun too.
25th August 2010
With a generally youthful cast boasting some lovely voices, the music is equally captivating. Jacobs is all about excitement and making the most of orchestral detail...Full of surprises, Jacobs’s account is a real game-changer: we will never listen to this multi-faceted masterpiece in the same way again.
November 2010
There's much to savour in the individual performances here, with often-sublime singing.
11th September 2010
...fresh, lively, quick-witted – and characteristically full of liberties...The solo singing is impeccably schooled and dramatically believable...Daniel Schmutzhard makes the most of his Viennese Papageno. Daniel Behle is the thoughtful Tamino, Marlis Petersen a virginal Pamina.
Awards Issue 2010
As ever, Jacobs favours lively speeds, light articulation and pungent, colourful textures...I suspect I shall reach for this new recording as often as any, for its bubbling, crackling theatricality and an eager, yet unforced, sense of fun that never short-changes the opera's central message of human enlightenment.
19th September 2010
Some of his tempi and abrupt gear changes will disturb purist Mozartians, but his youthful cast gives huge pleasure: Marlis Petersen’s radiant Pamina, Daniel Behle’s lyrical, aristocratic Tamino and Daniel Schmutzhard’s garrulous Papageno are among the finest sung on disc, and Anna-Kristiina Kappola’s steely-toned Queen of the Night doesn’t miss a stitch in her coloratura runs.
9th September 2010
The star is tenor Daniel Behle, whose Tamino is the finest on disc since Fritz Wunderlich. Jacobs opts on occasion for exaggerated speeds, whether fast or slow. The playing is excellent.
9th September 2010
The principal singers inhabit their roles as persuasively as possible for such an absurdly mythopoeic fairytale, with Daniel Behle a noble Tamino and baritone Daniel Schmutzhard particularly effective as Papageno.
13th September 2010
From the violently arresting opening chords of the overture, it is clear this Die Zauberflöte is not going to be routine...but to anyone who feels that they know the opera inside out, it’s an exhilarating wake-up call...the entire cast sings with meticulous musicality, and the RIAS Chamber Choir and Akademie für Alte Musik could hardly be bettered.
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