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Michelangeli: The Vatican Recordings | Divox 999001

Michelangeli: The Vatican Recordings

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Label: Divox

Cat No: 999001

Barcode: 0881488990010

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 29th March 2010

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Contents

Works

Debussy
Images I + II

Debussy
Preludes, Book I

Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit

Chopin
Andante spianato et Grand Polonaise Op.22

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat Op.73, "Emperor"

Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C Op.2/3

Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor

Liszt
Totentanz for piano and orchestra

Artists

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
RAI Symphony Orchestra, Rome

Works

Debussy
Images I + II

Debussy
Preludes, Book I

Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit

Chopin
Andante spianato et Grand Polonaise Op.22

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat Op.73, "Emperor"

Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C Op.2/3

Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor

Liszt
Totentanz for piano and orchestra

Artists

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
RAI Symphony Orchestra, Rome

About

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, one of the greatest pianists of our century, died in Lugano, Switzerland on 12 June 1995 at the age of 75.

This four-CD box contains four concerts and recitals which the maestro gave in the Vatican between 1960 and 1987.

Contents:
CD 1 [53:53]
Debussy
- Images I
- Images II
Ravel
- Gaspard de la Nuit
Recorded in the Sala Nervi of the Vatican, 13.06.1987

CD 2 [58:10]
Chopin
- Andante spianato et Grand Polonaise Op.22
Recorded in the Sala Nervi of the Vatican, 13.6.1987

Debussy
- Préludes, Book I
Recorded in the Sala Nervi of the Vatican, 29.4.1977

CD 3 [64:36]
Beethoven
- Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat Op.73 – "Emperor"
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI / Massimo Freccia
Recorded in the Sala della Benedizione of the Vatican, 28.4.1960

- Piano Sonata in C Op.2/3
Recorded in the Sala Nervi of the Vatican, 13.6.1987

CD 4 [47:28]
Schumann
- Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54
Liszt
- Totentanz
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI / Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded in the Sala della Benedizione of the Vatican, 28.4.1962, in the presence of His Holiness Pope John XXIII

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