"(...) This new disc joins a formidable and growing discography of excellence. Rousset as usual directs from the fortepiano with bass continuo in recitatives. Salieri perhaps didn’t have the same God-given talent for melody and sheer bravado as his younger colleague Mozart, but once again in Cublai we can experience his undoubted musical genius and perfect sense of timing. The opera moves fast; indeed, it is quite breathless in places. There is some inappropriate text in the libretto to do with racial stereotypes which may indeed have been amusing to the audience at the time, but which feels wrong now. We are lucky to have the records, though, and I urge you to investigate this or indeed any of the series on Aparté. There are several more Salieri works Rousset could turn to, pre- and post-dating Cublai. I would also love him to direct Una cosa rara one day." (musicwebinternational.com)
Opname: 2009
Opname: 2010
The two piano concertos suggest that Salieri was a more substantial composer than history has indicated. They are interesting as well-made works in the galant classic style, and even more so as anticipations of the great Mozart concertos. Both Salieri concertos were composed in 1773 - four years before Mozart's first great piano concerto (E flat, K. 271). Listening to them, one can see the roots of Mozart almost at the topsoil. Salieri often did, in these concertos, work in the musical small change of the day. He was not a very imaginative composer. But he did have craft. And in the slow movements, where he seems to be at his best, there is a fine fund of agreeable, and sometimes even personal, Italian melody. The slow movement of the C major Concerto is a direct anticipation of the great second movement of Mozart's A major Piano Concerto (K. 488). (...)
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