"Pie Jesus -Sacred Arias : Maki Mori, soprano"

Pie Jesus - Sacred Arias

Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165
Mozart: C Minor Mass, K. 427: Et Incarnatus Est
Mozart: C Minor Mass. K. 427: Laudamus Te
Haydn: Die Schoepfung, Hob.xxi: 2: Und Gott Sprach: Es Bringe die Erde Gras Hervor
Haydn: Die Schoepfung, Hob. XXI: 2: Nun Beut die Flur das Frische Gruen
Haydn: Die Schoepfung, Hob.xxi: 2: Und Gott Sprach: Es Bringe das Wasser in Der Fuelle Hervor
Haydn: Die Schoepfung. Hob.xxi: 2: Auf Starkem Fittiche Schwingt Sich
J.S.Bach: Matthaeus-passion, BWV244: Er Hat Uns Allen Wohlgetan
J.S.Bach: Matthaeus-passion, BWV244: Aus Liebe Will Mein Heiland Sterben
J.S.Bach: Johannes-passion, BWV245 Zerfliesse. Mein Herze
Faure: Requiem - Pie Jesu
Franck: Panis Angelicus

Maki Mori, soprano
Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa
Seikyo Kim, conductor

Digital recording: 07/2007
SACD Hybrid
CD STEREO/ SACD STEREO/ SACD SURROUND

Maki Mori (soprano)
Born in Tokyo, Maki Mori initially studied piano and violin and then singing at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, the Conservatory of Music Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and the Music College in Munich. She won the Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition (Hamburg) and the International Singing Competition Orfeo 2000 (Hanover). She is also the recipient of many special prizes for operettas (from the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna), Lied and the best interpretation of Bach.
She has performed at the Washington National Opera as Blonde in Die Entfurung aus dem Serail with Gunter Missenhardt and the director Michael Hampe, as Gilda in Rigoletto with Haijing Fu conducted by Heinz Fricke, as Blumen Madchen in Parsifal with Placido Domingo and Matti Salminen, as Olympia in Les Contes d’ Hoffmann with Richard Leech, Andrea Rost conducted by Emmanuel Villaume, and as Adele in Die Fledermaus with June Anderson and Wolfgang Brendel, which received critical acclaim from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and won the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award. She has performed also at the Los Angeles Opera as Sophie in Werther with Robert Alagna, Frederica von Stade and Kent Nagano. She has sung such roles in Tokyo as Nannetta in Falstaff with Giorgio Morandi, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2005, she performed as Musetta in La Boheme with Giuseppe Sabbatini, Eva Mei conducted by Nicola Luisotti in May and performed as Gilda with the Sofia National Opera in November.

In addition to performing with Domingo, Pavarotti and Carreras’s “The 3 Tenors” concert in Japan, as a soloist, she has sung Mozart’s Exsultate jubilate with Seiji Ozawa, Rudolf Barschai, David Robertson, Enoch zu Guttenberg and the Munchener Philharmoniker, Mahler No.4 with Gary Bertini and Myung-Whung Chung, Mozart’s Requiem with Vladimir Ashkenazy and NHK Symphony and Seiji Ozawa, Mahler No.8 with Gianandrea Noseda, Mozart’s Mass c-moll and Bach’s Mass h-moll with Wolfgang Gonnenwein at the Budapest National Theater, Adele, Vilia-Lied and Fruhlingsstimmenwalzar in the New Year Concert with Peter Guth and the Strauss Festival Orchestrer Wien. She sang a solo recital at the Carnegie Hall, which was recorded live and released by avex. In May 2006 she performed with Paavo Jarvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie. In 2007, she performed with Dresdner Kreuzchor and Dresdner Philharmonie in February, and made debut in March at the Sachsische Staatsoper Dresden as Sophie in R. Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” which was highly acclaimed. She will perform this role again with the Sachsische Staatsoper on their Japan tour in November, 2007.
She performs widely with domestic and international orchestras, and is acclaimed everywhere she performs for her beautiful voice which has the high technique of coloratura and deep musicality. She is a remarkable international singer who is a representative of Japan. ( Avex Classics )