Episode 2
Donald Macleod charts Salieri's early years in Vienna, focusing on his position as composer for the Imperial Chamber and his operatic works.
In the second programme Donald Macleod surveys Salieri's beginnings as a composer in Vienna. Whilst employed as Composer for the Imperial Chamber, Salieri would have been responsible for writing suitable chamber music, and we hear the Cassazione that was likely to have been performed during royal banquets. Salieri, working with his mentor Gassmann at Vienna's opera house, was also offered the opportunity to compose an opera. Opera was to be the arena in which he made his biggest mark, and we hear two extracts from his early works Armida, and La fiera di Venezia.
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Antonio Salieri
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Artist: West German Radio Chorus Artist: West German Radio Orchestra Artist: Helmuth Froschauer (director)
- Phoenix Edition 112.
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Antonio Salieri
Overture (Armida - 1771)
Artist: Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Artist: Michael Dittrich (conductor)
- Marco Polo 8.223381.
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Antonio Salieri
Vi sono sposa e amante (La fiera di Venezia - Act 3, Sc 3 - 1772)
Artist: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) Artist: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Artist: Adam Fischer (conductor)
- Decca 475100-2.
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Antonio Salieri
Cassazione (cassation) in C
Artist: Ensemble Italiano di Fiati Artist: Paolo Pollastri (director)
- Tactus TC751902.
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Antonio Salieri
Concerto in C for flute and oboe (1774)
Artist: Aurele Nicolet (flute) Artist: Heinz Holliger (oboe) Artist: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Artist: Kenneth Sillito (director)
- Philips 416359-2.
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