Soprano – Rachel Yakar, Clarinet – Dieter Klöcker, Conductor – Ernö Sebestyen
Engineer – Johann-Nikolaus Matthes, Orchestra – RIAS-Sinfonietta
Producer – Gerd Berg
This record contains a few gems which have not been recorded since. Unfortunately it has not been transferred to CD and is mostly not available on YouTube or any streaming services. I have located most of the sources which are listed with each track.
A= side 1, B= side 2
A1: Antonio Salieri: Aria In B (O Mortales Festinate) (4:25)
Source: Two sources in the Czech National Library Praha NM XXXVIII F 26, XV F 145 . Index cards:
Incidentally, an aria for soprano, solo clarinet and bassoon with strings by Salieri is in the same catalogue XV F 101 Quae est ista. Again, parts from the copyist Soukup.
You can download a new edition from this website: Salieri: O mortales festinate
A2: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Aria In Es Nach KV 505 (Cor Sincerum Amore Plenum) (8:41)
Source: Czech National Library Praha. Index card is difficult to read:
This arrangement supposedly contains basset notes, and was therefore associated with Stadler, but I don’t think any modern scholar has verified this. Everyone seems to have quoted Klöcker’s liner notes.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJ8PUaQqnU
A3: Giovanni Paisiello: Aria In B (Accensa Clare Face Fidelis) (7:28)
Source: Czech National Library Praha NM XXXVIII F 23. This is most likely a Latin parody of Finito è il mio tormento and exists with a German text, Die Hoffnung dient zum Stabe, published on this website: Die Hoffnung dient zum Stabe: attr. Mozart
A4: Luigi Cherubini: Offertorium (Ave Maria) (4:40)
The clarinet part is arranged from the original cor anglais solo. There are several copies of the clarinet version listed in RISM.
B1: Pietro Guglielmi: Motette (Gratias Agimus) (5:48)
Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany, Signatur: Mus.ms. 8813/10
A new edition is published on this website: Guglielmi’s celebrated ‘Gratias agimus’
B2: Giuseppe Sarti: Aria In B (Si Tranquilla) (7:03)
Source: Czech National Library Praha NM XXXVIII F 29. This version has a Latin text In hac die. Another copy, Ave mundi, Signature XV F 179, includes the cadenza performed on the recording and can be viewed online:
The aria is from Sarti’s opera Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (Milan, 1782), Act I no. 14, Si tranquilla in casto amore. (Hence the title of the track on the record sleeve – it appears at least someone was aware of the aria’s origin.) A manuscript score may be viewed here: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/88192/215 It does not include the cadenza at the close of the introduction heard on the recording, nor the bars preparing it. These features in the recording have the character of modern invention: the music following the cadenza with triple stops in the violins seems the wrong place for this type of gesture.
Another version is listed in RISM: RISM ID no.: 550503252.
B3: Franz Schubert: Erstes Offertorium D. 136 (Op. 46) (Totus In Corde Langueo) (4:45)
Modern edition : Carus Verlag.
B4: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Aria In B (Mens Sancta Deo Cara) (4:55)
Source: Czech National Library Praha NM XLIX F 28.
This track is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1xrGXixvQ
RISM ID no.: 550270674 and RISM ID no.: 550269282 RISM ID no.: 300257348. Not by Mozart!
B5: Ferdinando Paër: Aria In Es (Beatus Vir) (7:13)
Source: Czech National Library Praha NM XLIX F 53. This is a latin parody of Soffia’s aria, Una voce al cor mi parla, no 16 from Sargino (Dresden, May 1803). IMSLP
Historical Clarinets 