Molieri / Adam Plachetka

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
October 28, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Czech Ensemble Baroque
    • PERFORMER
      Adam Plachetka
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 28, 2022
    • UPC
      8717306260220
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5187022
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, Act I Scene 8: Aria: Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    2. Falstaff, Act I Scene 12: Aria: Nell'impero di Cupido

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    3. Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I Scene 5: Aria: Madamina, il catalogo è questo

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    4. La scuola de' gelosi: Aria: Mi dica il mio signore

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    5. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492: Overture

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    6. Axur, Re d'Ormus, Act IV: Misero, abbietto negro

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    7. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, Act III Scene 4: Recitative and Aria: Hai già vinta la causa! … Vedrò, menr'io sosprio

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    8. La Grotta di Trofonio, Act II: Se il tuo sposo

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    9. La finta giardiniera, K. 196, Act I: A forza di martelli

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    10. La grotta di Trofonio: Overture

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    11. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492, Act IV Scene 8: Recitative and Aria: Tutto è disposto … Aprite un po' quegli occhi

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    12. Axur, Re d'Ormus, Act V: Idol vano d'un popol codardo

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    13. Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I Scene 15: Finch'han dal vino, "Champagne Aria"

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    14. La scuola de' gelosi: Aria: Fate buona compagnia

      Composer: Antonio Salieri

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek

    15. Così fan tutte, K. 588, Act I Scene 3: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka

      Conductor: Roman Válek


Bass-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 Válek. 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, and most of his operas have sunk into oblivion. Molieri brings the two composers together, focusing on bass-8 baritone arias from their opera buffas. Famous arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are heard in a completely different light when paired to excerpts from Salieri’s Falstaff, Axur, La grotto di Trofonio, and La scuola de’ gelosi. It also makes clear why Salieri enjoyed such success, as well as why great composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt all wanted to study with him. Given the importance of Prague for Mozart’s operatic successes, the music fits the players of Czech Ensemble Baroque like a glove, and Plachetka possesses the optimal combination of vocal authority and agility to sing these buffo roles.

Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. The Czech Ensemble Baroque is one of the most important period instrument ensembles of the Czech Republic, and was founded by Roman Válek in 1998. Plachetka, Válek and the ensemble all make their Pentatone debut.

REVIEW:

Adam Plachetka is a widely experienced singer, especially of the Mozart roles heard here, to all of which he brings a handsome, healthy tone, firm diction and a sense of character. Several arias include apt decorations and, where appropriate, his own cadenzas. The solid quality of the Czech Ensemble Baroque under Roman Válek, meanwhile, is evidenced in a couple of overtures, the familiar Figaro, plus a powerful account of Salieri’s dramatic introduction to La grotta di Trofonio.

-- BBC Music Magazine