Dario Salvi

Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Suppé: Mozart – Incidental Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi - Suppé: Mozart – Incidental Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Universally famous for his glorious overtures Light Cavalry and Poet and Peasant (Naxos 8.553935), Franz von Suppé was one of the greatest exponents of the golden Age of Viennese Operetta. But he was also a master of incidental music for popular plays, one of which is Mozart – an example of Künstler-Lebensbild (‘life portrait of an artist’). Suppé’s music subtly accompanies the stage action as the story of the composition of Mozart’s music unfolds, offering a potpourri of Mozart’s works served up with Suppé’s trademark flair. Die Afrikareise presents a piquant and brilliant travelogue.
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Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. Dario Salvi continues his exploration of Marschner’s overtures and stage music in this second volume featuring a programme of all world premiere recordings. Salvi conducts the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra in its first recording on the Naxos label.

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Markéta Čepická, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Markéta Čepická, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Classical
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The second volume in this series continues to explore little-known examples of Auber’s elegant and refined operatic music. Julie was his first stage work, its fantasia-like beauty foreshadowing the operas, opéras-comiques and lyric dramas to come. Striking melodies and haunting episodes abound in these overtures and entr’actes, and there is restrained yet fragrant Iberian colour in the overture to Léocadie. The Violin Concerto is lightly scored and gentle, with a tarantella-like finale full of folk vitality.

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Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Although Auber was one of the most popular of 19th-century French composers, his music is seldom revived in the opera house. This series is restoring his overtures and orchestral excerpts from operas, a swathe of refined and elegant music showing his importance in operatic history. Featured in this volume are the overture from La Muette de Portici, his revolutionary masterpiece, as well as premiere recordings of music from La Barcarolle and Les Chaperons blancs, exuding both the drama and the charm that permeate all his mature works.

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Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 4 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was one of the most famous composers of the 19th century, giving definitive form to the uniquely French genres of grand historical opera and opéra-comique. His overtures became famous all over the world for their dancing elegance and fluent melodies, a reflection both of his genial personality and of the Parisian taste and refinement of his day. This programme includes overtures and entr’actes from Auber’s most famous opera about the notorious robber-chief Fra Diavolo, and from one of his least known works, La Fiancée du Roi de Garbe. Volume 2 of this edition (8.574006) was acclaimed as ‘wonderfully articulated and lovingly brought to life’ by MusicWeb International.

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Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures, Vol. 5 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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From the mid-1820s onwards Auber’s career was filled with success. His opéras-comiques and grands opéras won repeated acclaim for their myriad qualities of Parisian elegance. The fifth volume in this series features two of his Sicilian operas and both centre on well-delineated female characters. Brimming with grace, charm and lyricism, the extensive ballet from Zerline exemplifies why Auber’s music was so popular. Philippe Musard’s Quadrille No. 2 on themes from Zanetta shows the extent of Auber’s contemporary popularity and is a revealing cultural souvenir of the period.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Dario Salvi – Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 1 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Dario Salvi – Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:34 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr(1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. These have long been overlooked. In this first volume Schön Ella represents Marschner’s mastery of form, skilful orchestration and melodic gifts, while the excerpts from Ali Baba reveal his flair for theatrical concision and mood setting.

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Dario Salvi, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra – Strauss II: Blindekuh (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Blindekuh (Blind Mans Buff) was Johann Strauss IIs sixth operetta and his least known. Neglected for well over a century, it was revived by Dario Salvi and the forces on this album in January 2019. The works initial lack of success is hard to explain but it may have been caused by a confusing libretto the music itself is vibrant and captivating with waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, marches and bel canto arias. Performed in a concert version without dialogue, and in accordance with performing traditions, this production restores the work to the status of one of Strauss most melodically seductive works. Dario Salvi is a Scottish-Italian conductor, musicologist and researcher who specializes in the restoration and performance of rare works. Salvi has conducted symphonic works, opera and operettas across Europe, the Middle East and the US. His passion is the rediscovery and performance of long-forgotten masterpieces by the likes of Suppé, Meyerbeer, Rumshinsky, Genée, Auber, and many others. He is collaborating with Naxos on recording a series on Romantic ballets, including works by Minkus, Pugni, Adam and others, and a series on Aubers overtures and orchestral music. Two other important projects include recording the last three missing operas by Johann Strauss II and three never before recorded operatic works by Giacomo Meyerbeer.

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Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus & Dario Salvi – J. Strauss II: Waldmeister (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johann Strauss II’s operetta Waldmeister (‘Woodruff’) was staged for the first time in December 1895. The plotline-a case of mistaken identity somewhat reminiscent of Die Fledermaus-is lively, but the libretto itself proved to be less than satisfying. However, the vivacious and immaculately orchestrated music featuring several pieces that would go on to become famous, including the waltz Trau, schau, wem and the polka Klipp-Klapp-Galopp, earned Strauss immense admiration. Attending the opening night with Johannes Brahms was Vienna’s leading critic Eduard Hanslick who hailed the new work by asserting that ‘Mozart’s golden sound reigns in [Strauss’s] orchestra’.

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Suppé: Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (Version Without Narration) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Suppé: Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (Version Without Narration) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:04 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Classical
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Franz von Suppé became famous all over the world for the easy brilliance of his operetta melodies. He also achieved great success with theatrical stage music, including this version of Jules Verne’s adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days. Verne’s interest in science and new discoveries reflects the optimism of the late 19th century, and Suppé’s music is a perfect reflection of the light and dark in the narrative, evocatively tracking Phileas Fogg’s enterprising and at time dangerous voyage, and taking in the exotic orient and Gold Rush America along the way. The stage version of Jules Verne’s Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen was made not long after the original novel’s publication, but while Around the World in 80 Days has become an iconic tale through numerous classic films, Suppé’s expressive music for the story has until now been largely forgotten. This world premiere recording of a musical journey alongside Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and the rescued Princess Aouda is sure to grab the attention of all kinds of listeners, and we are delighted to be able to add it to the Naxos catalogue.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Auber: Overtures & Other Works (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s music radiates both his amiable personality and the Parisian elegance of his times. The huge success of his operas resulted in a popularity for these overtures that rivalled that of Rossini, who was an early influence. Auber’s brilliant and energetic style infuses tales of romance both rustic and aristocratic, with moods ranging from dramatic heroism to dashing ballroom dances—all portrayed with the signature charm that made him a standard-bearer of musical stylishness and good taste. Auber’s opera La Sirène can be found on Naxos 8.660436. This is the first volume of a project to record all the overtures to his 31 opéras-comiques, seven opéras, three drames lyriques and seven other stage works.

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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi – Meyerbeer: Overtures & Stage Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Meyerbeer was a precocious composer and this album traces some of his very earliest works. Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen was his first stage work, a charming rural vignette that contains all the essential features of a ballet-divertissement couched in writing that enchantingly evokes the 18thcentury. Collaborating with his teacher, the Abbé Georg Vogler, Meyerbeer composed DerAdmiralin1811. The following year saw Wirt und Gast with the vivid Oriental exoticism of its Janissary music, while Romildae Constanza, his first Italian opera, shows his complete assimilation of Rossinian models.

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