Molieri: Mozart and Salieri Arias | Pentatone PTC5187022

Molieri: Mozart and Salieri Arias

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5187022

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th October 2022

Contents

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527
» Madamina, il catalogo e questo (Little lady, this is the catalogue)
La finta giardiniera, K196
» A forza di martelli
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Hai gia vinta la causa ...Vedro, mentr'io sospiro (Act 3)
» Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso
» Sinfonia

Salieri, Antonio

Axur re d'Ormus
» Misero abietto negro
Falstaff
» Nell'impero di Cupido
La grotta di Trofonio
» Se il tuo sposo e assai brioso
» Sinfonia
La scuola de gelosi
» Mi dica il mio signore

Artists

Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque

Conductor

Roman Valek

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, K527
» Madamina, il catalogo e questo (Little lady, this is the catalogue)
La finta giardiniera, K196
» A forza di martelli
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Hai gia vinta la causa ...Vedro, mentr'io sospiro (Act 3)
» Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso
» Sinfonia

Salieri, Antonio

Axur re d'Ormus
» Misero abietto negro
Falstaff
» Nell'impero di Cupido
La grotta di Trofonio
» Se il tuo sposo e assai brioso
» Sinfonia
La scuola de gelosi
» Mi dica il mio signore

Artists

Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Czech Ensemble Baroque

Conductor

Roman Valek

About

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. Despite the fact that this is obviously not true, Salieri’s popularity has suffered from this popular myth-making, and most of his operas have sunk into oblivion. Molieri brings the two composers together, focusing on bass-baritone arias from their opera buffas. Famous arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are heard in a completely different light when paired to excerpts from Salieri’s Falstaff, Axur, La grotto di Trofonio and La scuola de’ gelosi. It also makes clear why Salieri enjoyed such success, as well as why great composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt all wanted to study with him. Given the importance of Prague for Mozart’s operatic successes, the music fits the players of Czech Ensemble Baroque like a glove, and Plachetka possesses the optimal combination of vocal authority and agility to sing these buffo roles.

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. The Czech Ensemble Baroque is one of the most important period instrument ensembles of the Czech Republic, and was founded by Roman Válek in 1998. Plachetka, Válek and the ensemble all make their Pentatone debut.

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