Mozart's "Ch'io mi scordi te?" K. 505 -- Schwarzkopf/Curcio/Concertgebouworkest/Klemperer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
"Ch'io mi scordi di te?/Non temer, amato bene" in E flat major KV 505 for soprano, piano obbligato and orchestra
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006), soprano
Maria Curcio (1918-2009), piano
Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer (1885-1973)
Live recording, 1957
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"Ch'io mi scordi di te? ... Non temer, amato bene", K. 505, is a concert aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for soprano, piano obbligato and orchestra, composed 1786 in Vienna; it is often considered to be one of his greatest compositions in this genre.
The scena (recitative and rondo) was originally composed in 1786 with different music and a different text for the recitative as an insertion aria, ("Non più. Tutto ascoltai...Non temer, amato bene", K. 490), for the character Idamante in a revision of Mozart's earlier opera Idomeneo for amateur performance in Vienna.

The work was written for Nancy Storace, probably for her farewell concert from Vienna on Friday, 23 February 1787 at the Theater am Kärntnertor. Mozart himself very likely played the obbligato piano part (K. 490 has a violin obbligato). The words to the aria are by Giambattista Varesco, but the new words of the recitative are thought to be by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Mozart entered the work on 27 December 1786 into his catalogue with the remark: "for Mlle Storace and me." He performed it again with Josepha Duschek on 12 May 1789 in the Gewandhaussaal in Leipzig on his Berlin journey. Mozart's autograph, dated 26 December 1786, was thought to have been lost since 1945, but is now known to be in the university library in Cracow.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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