The Weber Sisters is rooted in Mozart’s life story and includes music
inspired by Aloysia, Konstanze and Josepha Weber, three soprano sisters
whom Mozart first met in the German city of Mannheim in 1777, when he
was 21. Though he initially fell in love with Aloysia, who went on to
become a celebrated diva, it was Konstanze who became his wife; she
outlived him by nearly 50 years and did much to sustain and build his
reputation after his death. The programme comprises songs, operatic and concert arias and orchestral numbers, and Sabine Devieilhe’s
interpretations are typified by beauty of tone, a penetrating sense of
drama and a scrupulous respect for the score and the text. Three of the
highlights are: the concert aria ‘Popoli di Tessaglia’ – written for
Aloysia – which rises to spectacular heights (specifically, the G
two-and-a-half octaves above middle C); the sublime ‘Et incarnatus est’
from the C minor Mass – premiered in Salzburg by Konstanze, and ‘Der
Hölle Rache’, written for Josepha as the second fireworks-filled aria of
the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, a role that has brought
triumphs for Sabine Devieilhe at the opera houses of Lyon and Paris. Her
colleagues on this album are the Ensemble Pygmalion, the keyboard
player Arnaud de Pasquale and the conductor Raphaël Pichon. (Warner Classics) The Weber Sisters is rooted in Mozart’s life story and includes music
inspired by Aloysia, Konstanze and Josepha Weber, three soprano sisters
whom Mozart first met in the German city of Mannheim in 1777, when he
was 21. Though he initially fell in love with Aloysia, who went on to
become a celebrated diva, it was Konstanze who became his wife; she
outlived him by nearly 50 years and did much to sustain and build his
reputation after his death. The programme comprises songs, operatic and concert arias and orchestral numbers, and Sabine Devieilhe’s
interpretations are typified by beauty of tone, a penetrating sense of
drama and a scrupulous respect for the score and the text. Three of the
highlights are: the concert aria ‘Popoli di Tessaglia’ – written for
Aloysia – which rises to spectacular heights (specifically, the G
two-and-a-half octaves above middle C); the sublime ‘Et incarnatus est’
from the C minor Mass – premiered in Salzburg by Konstanze, and ‘Der
Hölle Rache’, written for Josepha as the second fireworks-filled aria of
the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, a role that has brought
triumphs for Sabine Devieilhe at the opera houses of Lyon and Paris. Her
colleagues on this album are the Ensemble Pygmalion, the keyboard
player Arnaud de Pasquale and the conductor Raphaël Pichon. (Warner Classics)
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