Did
Amadeus
kill Salieri?
This is the question we ask ourselves when listening to the latest album that chef Christophe Rousset dedicates to the Italian composer.
In the program?
Nothing less than the first
opera seria
of the one that is still very unfairly reduced to its alleged rivalry with Mozart:
Armida
.
Salieri is only 21 years old.
He is a very young composer, in the lyric career for only a few months.
However, from the first bars, one is captivated by its sense of drama, its originality and its rhetorical power.
“I knew the book by name but had never heard it,”
explains Christophe Rousset.
By playing it, we realized that there was a fabulous dramatic sap. "
Salieri knows how to adapt for different audiences in Milan, Vienna, Paris.
And he is constantly inventing, far from the mediocre and jealous composer who has been falsely described
Chef Christophe Rousset
This first world recording is far from being the first act of rehabilitation of the composer, by the conductor of the Talens lyriques.
Since his recording of the
dramma giocoso La Grotta di Trofonio
in 2005, he has even made it a workhorse.
Afterwards engraving the three French operas
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