Mozart/ Salieri/ Plachetka/ Czech Ens Baroque - Molieri - AriasBass baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a program of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Vlek. 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,

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who improvised on the same chorale for half an hour during a personal meeting with the aged master - years after he had made a copy of the latter's fantasy on An Wasserflüssen Babylon

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The music on this CD was captured during a morning and afternoon recording session in June 2003 at the famed WDR radio studio in the midst of a project that featured the WDR Big Band playing the music of Erik Satie as arranged and conducted by pianist Bill Dobbins

mixing melancholy and joy

7 - Ravel: Sonata for Violin

After the departure of original vocalist Harry "Leviathan Thirisen" Conklin

but it outlines the great career of the artist

the fortepiano was approved and appreciated by Johann Sebastian Bach during his visit to Gottfried Silbermann in 1747

"Haavard" again invites us on an acoustic journey into the beating melodic heart of dark Nordic music

Vices borrows from the perfectly constructed pop songs of the 1960s

"The score is so well written that it deserves a prominent place in the history of the early Romantic symphony