Claudio Scimone - Salieri: Concerto for Piano & Concerto for Flute and Oboe (2025)

May 7th will mark the bicentenary of Antonio Salieri’s death. Despite the persistent legend portraying him as a mediocre composer, jealous of Mozart’s genius, Salieri was a pivotal and innovative composer at the crossroads of Classical and Romantic eras, and a great pedagogue for the first generations of Romantics (Liszt, Schubert).

This album provides a glimpse of Salieri’s instrumental music with two concertos conducted by Claudio Scimone: one for keyboard, performed on a period fortepiano by Paul Badura-Skoda, and a double one by Clementine Hoogendoorn at the flute and Pietro Borgonovo at the oboe.