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Following their acclaimed recording of Telemann’s Miriways, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, together with an excellent quartet of singers, returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata. Officially designated as azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with a happy ending set on an exotic desert island. What makes this opera special is that Haydn chose an orchestral accompaniment for the entire work, with colorful and dramatic accompagnato recitatives. In Haydn’s printed score, many of the elaborate instrumental sections were deliberately deleted because he feared that they would overwhelm the players and that some listeners might not be sophisticated enough to fully appreciate them. What makes this recording special is that these sections have all been reinserted, using an up-to-date edition by Thomas Busse. The experienced players of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, conducted by Bernhard Forck, play this lush score with fervor and verve, while Anett Fritsch (Costanza), Sunhae Im (Silvia), Krystian Adam (Gernando) and André Morsch (Enrico) offer equally virtuosic vocal performances. Reviews “Under Bernhard Forck, the original opus ‘L’isola disabitata’ turns into a convincing plea for the still underrated music dramatist Haydn.” (concerti) “a performance of the highest standard, beautifully played by Akamus Berlin and directed with an unerring sense of style by Bernhard Forck. All four soloists are excellent, with top honours just about taken by the soprano Anett Fritsch’s Costanza…her delivery of accompagnato is expressed with real insight. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021 |
