Mozart's Mitridate: Cavata "Se di lauri il crine adorno"

An excerpt from a film (1986) by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle of Mozart's first opera seria "Mitridate, re di Ponto", composed when Mozart was just in 14 years old. The role of Mitridate was played by Swedish tenor Gösta Winbergh. The Concentus Musicus Wien was conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Available in DVD (DGG 2006).

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Music

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• Mozart
• Mitridate
• Harnoncourt
• Ponnelle
• Gösta
• Winbergh

[Dogaradodia]

And the winner is...

Gösta Winbergh...

Best Mitridate (nonpareil)

[Thrax1982]

Ford's version is great (and it's in my favourites too) but there is such a powerful emotion here, in this version.

But I must say that Winbergh and Ford are both superior to all other versions of this aria that I've heard so far.

[tenorschofield]

@ivanjuarezmex De acuerdo con usted , esta a 415 y no a 440 como estan todos los instrumentos en la actualidad. Bravo, es usted muy observador. Bravo Winbergh!!!

[klemperer100]

@Thrax1982 I AGREE, BUT YOU CAN HEAR THE C. ROUSSET'S RECORDING WITH GIUSEPPE SABBATINI LIKE MITRIDATE.

SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH.

[primohomme]

His outfit is fabulous! I want it now

[js59695]

@Dogaradodia What about Bruce Ford.

[ivanjuarezmex]

@juliomoralesam1 No es que esté baja, están usando instrumentos de la época en afinación 415..

[tenorschofield]

May The Lord have him on his grace...what superb singer Gösta Winbergh was!!! Great voice, great sensiility, great musicality,etc,all together in one artist, BRAVOOOO!!!!

[juliomoralesam1]

ESTA VERSION ESTA BAJADA MEDIO TONO.

[tenorschofield]

@Thrax1982 I agree with you very much;I also sense that something "extra" was happening in Winbergh "heartfelt" interpretation...probably the inexorable shadow of a "to soon death"?; I guess we will never know, but for sure he is transmiting a great emotion in this aria. I also like very much Bruce Ford version!!!

[XPRT10R]

"Shame" is an expression short for "what a shame". Not at all intending that Winbergh should have been ashamed of anything. Quite the contrary, he was a superbly refined singer, as I said before, from Mozart to Wagner passing thru Stauss. But obviously, in as difficult an aria as this one, the vocal demands of JUST a semitone higher, are infinitely superior and it's hard to compare with those who have sung it at modern pitch, like Sabbatini.

[benbremen]

@XPRT10R the orchestra "concentus musicus wien" is using period instruments and they use to tune their instruments a semitone lower than modern orchestras do - a' at 415 Hz. in fact, in mozart's time the standard pitch was at 430 Hz. today it's common to tune at 442 Hz. So there is absolutely no reason for Winbergh to be ashamed!