Antonio Salieri Concerto for piano C major (3/3)

Salieri wrote little instrumental music. Among the few pieces he wrote is this piano concerto from 1773. It may not be as elaborate as Mozart's concertos but it is a fine piece of music to me. Especially I enjoy the serene graceful second movement.

Aldo Ciccolini plays with the Solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone.

I apologize for the bad sound quality. It is totally due to my bad treating of my cds. I have a recording of much better sound quality but this version is so much superior to that one musically that I decided to upload it none the less.

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• Antonio
• Salieri
• piano
• concerto
• c-major
• Aldo
• Ciccolini

[Adri58]

@QinHuangAHK No one. And if we could, they would sound like crap.

[VariationsOnNoTheme]

Salieri is MUCH MORE IMAGINATIVE than credit is given to him! 40 operas, chamber music, church music; I do believe Mozart was MUCH MORE INFLUENCED by Salieri than he admitted in his day. After all, he spent 6 ducats to buy a Salieri opera in 1780, an enormous sum for that day. Salieri's music is organic, and his logic is excellent. How there should be a complete, scholary critical edition of his complete works!

[QinHuangAHK]

@metteholm75

How many of us can write concertos when we're 23 years old nowadays?

[xXxMySweetChannelxXx]

Maybe he was not the best, but this is an awesome work.

[Hyardacil]

@DarkwingScooter Heh, I find it funny how these music 'experts' come to give their high-brow and superior-tone critiques of a composer who has not been raised by history into the status of a godly genius in the flesh. Indeed popularity seems to be the only true measure of worth in art for these people.

Thank you for defending this wonderful composer. :)

[thewolfsironheart1]

thank you for upload. :)

[DarkwingScooter]

@metteholm75 If he was unimaginative which composer was he copying? It sounds pretty unique to me.

He is not imaginative in the same way as Mozart, granted.

He does write in a peculiar and unfamiliar way, but it is unfamiliar because you are not familiar with his work and it is peculiar because it is imaginative.

The test, for me, is consistency of internal logic and range of expression, and this it passes with flying colors.

[DarkwingScooter]

@karlakor Again, when you say he lacks a firm hand hand with the progressions you are implying that at time the harmony follows its own internal logic (or indeed that of Salieri) rather than what you would like or expect.

If he goes I-V instead of I-IV could it not be because that is what he wanted? Is your inability to perceive the internal logic (which is rather different from that of Mozart but quite plain nevertheless) not a fault of your own perception rather than Salieri's technique?

[metteholm75]

He was not the most imaginative composer, but he wasn´t bad either, and he managed to obtain a good position in the Viennese music life, - being a popular composer, getting to work with Mozart (briefly), being a well reputed teacher for Beethoven among others, - and later, as head of the best conservatoire in the city, teaching the young Schubert. Not bad.

[WokSz]

As a complete novice to classical music, I really enjoyed this. Thank you.