Costantino Catena, Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni & Giulio Arnofi - Salieri: Piano Concertos (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 65:56 minutes | 1,09 GB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download
Until 20 years ago, the figure of Antonio Salieri seemed destined to remain under a cloud of widespread disrepute, in the shadow of his complex relationship with Mozart and unsubstantiated criminal allegations that have come down to us through a thread that runs from Aleksandr Pushkin’s poetic drama Mozart and Salieri (1830), later set to music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1897), to Miloš Forman’s famous film Amadeus (1984). In reality, Salieri, in late 18th-century Vienna, enjoyed a stature that Wolfgang could only dream of: court composer, conductor of the Italian opera and, above all, maestro di cappella of the imperial court – in other words organiser and manager of the Hapsburgs’ entire musical life.