Jonas Kaufmann - The Decca Recordings
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Jonas Kaufmann - The Decca Recordings
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) /with various orchestras & performers
[ Decca / 15 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 13 June 2025
The recordings on this new 15CD edition "Jonas Kaufmann - The Decca Recordings" are a sonic chronicle of his "Decca years", although the earliest of the recordings was made for Philips. They span ten years, from 2002 to 2012, and show the celebrated tenor at the height of his art.
This period reveals the wide range of Jonas Kaufmann's artistic output and his incomparable timbre. The set contains three complete opera recordings, all of which in some way anticipate his Wagnerian future: a Weber Oberon, the role of the King's son in Humperdinck's Königskinder and Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio.
The various recitals of operatic arias include 18th and 19th century German repertoire, the electrifying thrill of verismo, "Romantic Arias" and the seminal Wagner recital. Additional "bonus" material recorded at the time of the original recordings, including an aria from Mascagni's Iris and an ensemble from Puccini's La rondine.
A great song cycle (Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin") and a breathtaking choral work (Verdi's "Messa da Requiem") round off the edition and show Jonas Kaufmann at his best. These award-winning and critically acclaimed recordings perhaps represent Kaufmann's most important period of his career: youthful, stirring, moving and in full possession of all his vocal possibilities.
A must for lovers of beautiful voices.
"Turn immediately to the Tannhäuser excerpt...Kaufmann both darkens and stresses up his voice to portray the failed pilgrim's predicament...The other operatic excerpts...also find the tenor pushing the confines of a recital disc excitingly towards the level of live performance...the disc is something of a triumph." GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Vocal (Wagner)
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Recital - "Were the position of World's Top Tenor available, there may be no stronger candidate at present than Kaufmann. For the most part this recital is a triumph." Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 (Romantic Arias)
"Abbado leads a viscerally charged performance that flies to the very heart of the matter...One of the many glories of this thrillingly articulated Fidelio is the playing of the basses and lower strings sharp-featured and black as the pit of Acheron...This is the best-conducted Fidelio since Furtwängler's; a joy to experience and a privilege to possess."
(Gramophone Award WINNER 2012: Opera)
Tracks:
CD 1
MOZART, BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT, WAGNER: ARIAS
Claudio Abbado; James Levine
CD 2
VERISMO ARIAS
Antonio Pappano
CD 3
ROMANTIC ARIAS
Marco Armiliato
CD 4-5
WAGNER: WESENDONCK-LIEDER; ARIAS
Donald Runnicles
JONAS KAUFMANN DISCUSSES WAGNER
(English / German)
CD 6
SCHUBERT: DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN; DER JÜNGLING AN DER QUELLE
Helmut Deutsch
CDs 7-8
WEBER: OBERON
John Eliot Gardiner
CDs 9-10
BEETHOVEN: FIDELIO
Claudio Abbado
CDs 11-13
HUMPERDINCK: KÖNIGSKINDER
Armin Jordan
CDs 14-15
VERDI: MESSA DA REQUIEM
Daniel Barenboim
