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Composer : Antonio Salieri
Conductor : Matthias Bamert
Performer : London Mozart Players

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0095115987728
Label : Chandos
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-02-27
Running Time : 66minutes
UPC : 095115987728

ASIN : B000056KNF

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Overture to 'Cubalai, gran kan de' Tartari'
2. Twenty-six Variations on 'La follia di Spagna'
3. Overture to 'Angiolina, ossia Il matrimonio per sussuro'
4. Sinfonia Veneziana
5. Overture to 'La locandiera'
6. Sinfonia 'Il giorno onomastico'
7. Overture to 'Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle'

Customer Reviews

Murderer (2004-01-11)

I don't see how anyone can try to immortalize his works after seeing the movie Amadeus. He was a conniving, evil, egotistal man. I will never buy anything with his name on it. He is the murderer of a musical genius. I love Mozart and any of his true fans will never purchase anything with the salieri stamp on it.

Bringing Salieri out of the shadow of Mozart (2002-04-30)

This disc is part of Chandos' wonderful series, "Contemporaries of Mozart", and is a nice companion to the Salieri overtures disc on Marco Polo/Naxos (which I already reviewed). Between the two I would say that the LMP under Bamert give more precise and polished performances -- Bamert is a fastidious and exacting conductor who was a pupil of no less than George Szell and Leopold Stokowski (at different times naturally!).

Of the works on this disc, I particularly enjoyed the Sinfonia "Onomastico", which is the only "legitimate" 4 movement symphony on this programme -- the others are extended opera ovetures or in one case (the Sinfonia "Veneziana") a modern compilation from separate overtures. The "Falstaff" overture was also particularly delightful -- I daresay if you played this for a friend without telling them who composed it they might just be fooled into thinking it was a lesser known Mozart overture. Likewise the "Cubla kan" overture, which seems to look forward a bit to the festive Rossini overtures of the next generation.

The most unusual piece is the 26 variations on "La folia", composed late in Salieri's career (1815), and with an unusual instrumentation, including trombones and even a tambourine.

All in all, this is a very fine disc, and should give the lie to those who harbour misconceptions about Salieri derived from the fictionalized treatment in the film "Amadeus". No genius perhaps, but a major composer of his day, still worth hearing.

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