Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas, Karine Deshayes
Karine Deshayes, one of today's most remarkable interpreters of Mozart together with the vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Paladins, gives an outstanding performance in this program of his sacred and secular works, in which the motet Exsultate, jubilate! Forms the centrepiece. Her rich, full-bodied voice taps directly into the roots of this highly virtuosic piece, originally written for a powerful, resonant soprano castrato tessitura. Conducted by Jérôme Correas, the musicians complete the program with a selection of early pieces by Mozart: several of his (unjustly underrated) Church Sonatas, his Symphony No. 17, a poetic Agnus Dei from the Vespers, and excerpts from the all too rarely heard Davide penintente and La Betulia liberata. Through his attention to contrast and his concern for expressivity, the conductor reveals the underlying theatricality of these works, unparalleled in their dramatic power.
There is life injected into every corner of t h i s record i ng of largely early Mozart, from the incisive playing of period instrument ensemble Les Paladins, under conductor Jérôme Correas, to Karine Deshayes’s highly expressive mezzo-soprano.
Les Paladins set out their stall in the introduction to an aria from the 1771 ‘azione sacra’ Betulia liberata, exhibiting an edge to the string tone and conspicuous natural horns, their intonation deliciously on the ripe side.
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