Meyerbeer: Overtures & Stage Music Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Dario Salvi

• Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler (1749 - 1814), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): Der Admiral:
• 1 Vogler, Meyerbeer: Der Admiral: Overture 04:26
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen:
• 2 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: Overture 03:38
• 3 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: I. Allegretto galante 01:10
• 4 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: II. Air de Chasse 04:01
• 5 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: III. Allegro furioso 00:59
• 6 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: IV. Allegretto scherzando 00:48
• 7 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: V. Corps de ballet 00:57
• 8 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: VI. Air de Chassé par Écho 02:37
• 9 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: VII. Allegretto galante 01:11
• 10 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: VIII. Andantino 01:34
• 11 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: IXa. Pas de deux 03:00
• 12 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: IXb. Andantino pastorale 01:21
• 13 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: X. Allemande 04:06
• 14 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XI. Allegretto ma non troppo 01:26
• 15 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XII. Andantino 01:31
• 16 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XIII. Molto moderato 01:09
• 17 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XIV. Pas de deux 03:39
• 18 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XV. Allegro furioso 01:37
• 19 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XVI. Andante agitato 01:14
• 20 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XVII. Vivace 00:58
• 21 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XVIII. Corps de ballet 02:01
• 22 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XIX. Pas seul 02:19
• 23 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XX. Pas de trois 03:32
• 24 Meyerbeer: Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen: XXI. Finale 04:05
• Das Brandenburger Tor:
• 25 Meyerbeer: Das Brandenburger Tor: Einleitung 03:23
• Wirt und Gast (Excerpts):
• 26 Meyerbeer: Wirt und Gast (Excerpts): Overture 06:42
• 27 Meyerbeer: Wirt und Gast (Excerpts): Türkischer Marsch 02:10
• Romilda e Costanza:
• 28 Meyerbeer: Romilda e Costanza: Overture 09:26
• Total Runtime 01:15:00

Info for Meyerbeer: Overtures & Stage Music

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 18th century. Collaborating with his teacher, the Abbé Georg Vogler, Meyerbeer composed Der Admiral in 1811. The following year saw Wirt und Gast with the vivid Oriental exoticism of its Janissary music, while Romilda e Constanza, his first italian opera, shows his complete assimilation of Rossinian models.

These are mostly previously unrecorded works. The score used in Wirt und Gast is the original conducting score which contains small pencil corrections made by Meyerbeer’s fellow pupil, Weber, who conducted the work.

Conductor Dario Salvi has recorded an album of Meyerbeer’s sacred music on 8573907 where American Record Guide commented: ‘Salvi’s arrangements work very well; they sound like they could have been written by Meyerbeer himself and they never get in the way of the texts. The sound is excellent’.

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Dario Salvi, conductor

Dario Salvi
is an Anglo/Italian orchestral conductor, musicologist and researcher specialized in the restoration and performance of rare works. His main area of interest is Viennese Music and the works of Meyerbeer and Auber. Maestro Salvi was born in Brescia, Northern Italy, in 1975. From a very young age, he displayed a great interest in music and it was not long before he started studying soprano saxophone with the S.Cecilia Philharmonia. After years of studying performance and music theory as a teenager, he soon became an in-demand saxophonist and alto clarinet player and worked with many bands and big-bands, for which he also acted as an arranger. During his 20’s and early 30’s he toured the world playing bass for orchestras and bands until he decided to perfect the arts of conducting which he had started learning during his time as Director of Music in the Army. A Master of Music from the University of East Anglia followed.

Maestro Salvi has conducted opera and operetta across Europe and the USA. He is currently busy recording all of Auber’s operatic works for the classical label Naxos as well as preparing the world premiere of Johann Strauss’ comic Opera “Blindekuh” with the Sofia Philharmonic and Chorus, Antonio Bazzini’s “Turanda” for an Italian tour, Rumshinky and Thomashefsky’s Yiddish Operetta “The Broken Violin” for the USA, Portuguese Fado music and much more. He is also music director for the celebrations of Edith Cavell’s centenary with another world premiere, Maltese composer Vassallo’s grand Opera entitled “Edith Cavell”. Further projects include a mimodrame with music by Vittorio Monti as well as conducting ballet for the UK and Far East Asia. Salvi has published three books on Viennese Operetta on Cambridge Scholars Publishing and music for Musica Mundana and DaVinci publishing. With his wife Hannah, Salvi is also writing the biography of American musician, actor, songwriter and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Paul Jabara. (www.dariosalvi.co.uk)

Maestro Salvi is the founder of the Imperial Vienna Orchestra in Norwich. It is the only orchestra in the UK to specialize in the authentic reproduction of 19th-century Viennese music, and to regularly perform at Viennese balls.

Maestro Salvi is also a guest conductor and partner of Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra in New York and principal guest conductor for Concert Operetta Theater in Philadelphia. He has worked amongst others with Neue Preussische Philharmonie (D), Prague Philharmonia (CZ), Prague Chamber Orchestra (CZ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (BG), Zagreb Philharmonic (HR), Ruse State Opera (BG), and more, as well has worked with singers like Markus Werba, Andrea Chudak, Gaia Petrone, Franscisco Brito and Ira Lauren.

Maestro Salvi is a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain and a recording artist with Naxos Records.

A busy arranger and researcher, Dario has a particular interest in reviving lost works including comic operas and orchestral music.

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