Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Genre:

Opera

Label: Sony Classical

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 69

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 19075 96458-2

19075 96458-2. Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(La) Betulia liberata, Movement: D’ogni colpa la colpa maggiore Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Se all'impero Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Così fan tutte, Movement: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Così fan tutte, Movement: ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Così fan tutte, Movement: Un' aura amorosa Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Don Giovanni, Movement: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Don Giovanni, Movement: ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Don Giovanni, Movement: Il mio tesoro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Hier soll ich dich denn sehen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Konstanze...O wie ängstlich Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Entführung aus dem Serail, '(The) Abduction from the Seraglio', Movement: Wenn der Freude Tränen fliessen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Idomeneo, Re di Creta, 'Idomeneo, King of Crete', Movement: ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Die) Zauberflöte, '(The) Magic Flute', Movement: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Daniel Behle, Tenor
Michi Gaigg, Conductor
Orfeo Baroque Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
‘Zero to Hero’ proclaims Sony of a recital that begins with the ‘loser’ Don Ottavio (is he?) and ends with the guilt-ridden anti-hero Idomeneo. Never mind the slick rubric. Buoyed by spirited and colourful support from Michi Gaigg’s period band, Daniel Behle confirms his high reputation as a Mozart lyric tenor. His unforced, evenly produced tone is always easy on the ear, his coloratura fluent, his phrasing stylish and sensitive. He can spin a tender mezza voce, as in a dulcet ‘Un’ aura amorosa’, enhanced by soft, ‘woody’ clarinets and bassoons; and with a seam of metal in his tone, he rises impressively to the bravura challenges of a gargantuan aria from the biblical oratorio La Betulia liberata and Idomeneo’s anguished ‘Fuor del mar’, sung in its original, uncut version.

There is character, too, in Behle’s singing: a mingled ardour and musing intimacy in Tamino’s portrait aria, quivering excitement tempered with elegance in Belmonte’s ‘O, wie feurig’, a roguish smile in the tone in Ferrando’s blithe lovesong ‘Ah, lo veggio’, its volleys of top B flats deftly negotiated. Urgency can get the better of him in Belmonte’s ‘Wenn der Freude Tränen fliessen’ and Ottavio’s ‘Il mio tesoro’, which emerge as jauntily determined marches, short on poetry and grace. Here and elsewhere Behle can be appoggiatura-shy, leaving phrase endings blunt where they should be expressively rounded. That said, it’s hard to think of a contemporary tenor who could better encompass the varied demands of these arias. Sadly, Sony’s presentation is barely adequate, with a skimpy, gushing note on the arias and no texts or translations.

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