New Arts International

Sarah Fox presents a selection of Mozart’s Concert Arias, recorded with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León under Roberto Fores Veses, with Malcolm Martineau at the piano. Spanning Mozart’s career, the programme includes Conservati fedele (K.23), Per pietà, bell’idol mio (K.78), Ch’io mi scordi di te? (K.505) and Vado, ma dove? (K.583). These works, written for specific singers and occasions, combine dramatic intensity with lyrical refinement, showcasing Mozart’s gift for expressive vocal writing and orchestral colour. This recording brings together Fox’s operatic experience and the orchestra’s distinctive sound in a focused exploration of these finely crafted concert works.

Educated at Giggleswick School, the University of London, and Royal College of Music,

soprano Sarah Fox is a winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the John Christie Award,

and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College, the University of London. She has sung major roles including at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Salzburg Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Roles have included Micaëla (Carmen), Asteria (Tamerlano), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Ilia (Idomeneo), Woglinde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Mimì (La bohème) and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes).

Sarah has appeared in concert with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkunstler, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Basque National Orchestra, Concerto Koln, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed many times at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and Three Choirs Festival, and is a regular guest at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with many leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Mark Elder, Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Charles Mackerras, Andrew Manze, John Wilson, Joana Carneiro, Robert Treviño, Ivor Bolton and Richard Hickox. She is a regular soloist on “Friday Night Is Music Night” on BBC Radio 2, was a judge on BBC 2 Television's The Choir, and has performed with Rufus Wainwright in Europe and Hong Kong.

Her substantial discography includes many Gramophone Award nominations and "Editor's Choice" and BBC Music Magazine "Choice" accolades. Recordings include Mozart’s Il Re Pastore (Aminta), two editions of songs by Poulenc (Hyperion and Signum), "The Cole Porter Songbook", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Charles Mackerras and Lorin Maazel (both with the Philharmonia Orchestra), "That’s Entertainment" with the John Wilson Orchestra under John Wilson, English Lyrics by Parry, Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus under Andrew Litton, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, Parry's oratorios Prometheus Unbound and the world premiere recording of Judith (title-role) with the London Mozart Players and Crouch End Festival Chorus under William Vann, and the world premiere recording of Nimrod Borenstein’s Shakespeare Songs (English Chamber Orchestra).

1

Conservati fedele, K. 23

07:01

2

Al desio, di chi t'adora, K. 577

05:59

3

Per pièta, bell'idol mio, K. 78

03:56

4

O temerario Arbace, K. 79

06:04