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Mozart's Clavichord

Georg Nigl, Alexander Gergelyfi

Label
Alpha Classics
Catalogue number
ALPHA1142
EAN / barcode
3701624511428
Release date
11 July 2025
How did Mozart hear his own music at home in Salzburg? This recording provides the answer, for he made it not only in the house where he lived, but also with the clavichord with which he composed Die Zauberflöte, La Clemenza di Tito and the Requiem. Although the keyboard had the same range of five octaves as the fortepianos Mozart used for concerts, the weaker sound of the clavichord confined it to domestic use, where family members or colleagues who happened to be present could hear him. Baritone Georg Nigl and early keyboard specialist Alexander Gergelyfi have compiled an intimate programme with arias, overtures, cantatas, songs, fantasias, rondos and even the moving Lacrimosa from the Requiem. This unique album invites us into Mozart's own house in Salzburg, where we can sit beside an instrument he himself played and listen to two exceptional performers, both irrevocably charmed by the genius loci.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Die Zauberflöte, KV 620: Overture (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 06:23
  2. 02 Die Zauberflöte, KV 620, Act II: Aria. Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen Wünscht Papageno sich! (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 04:40
  3. 03 La Clemenza di Tito, KV 621, Act I Scene 4: Marcia (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 02:15
  4. 04 Das Veilchen, KV 476 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:04
  5. 05 Fantaisie, KV 476 (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 07:03
  6. 06 Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, KV 596 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:39
  7. 07 Das Kinderspiel, KV 598 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 04:04
  8. 08 Die Alte, KV 517 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:52
  9. 09 Rondo in D Major, KV 485 (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 06:15
  10. 10 Abendempfindung an Laura, KV 523 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 06:57
  11. 11 Fantasia in C Minor, KV 396/385f (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:27
  12. 12 Die Zufriedenheit, KV 473 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:47
  13. 13 Adagio in C Major for Glass Harmonica, KV 356/617a (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 03:06
  14. 14 Das Lied der Trennung, KV 519 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 09:41
  15. 15 Kleiner Trauermarsch in C Minor, KV 453a (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 02:14
  16. 16 Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls, Eine kleine deutsche Kantate, KV 619 (Arr. for Baritone and Clavichord by Georg Nigl and Alexander Gergelyfi) 09:30
  17. 17 Requiem in D Minor, KV 626: III. Sequenz: No. 6, Lacrimosa (Arr. for Clavichord by Alexander Gergelyfi) 01:29

Source: MusicBrainz

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