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Michelangeli - Early Recordings Vol.1: 1939-1948 | Naxos - Historical 8111351

Michelangeli - Early Recordings Vol.1: 1939-1948

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111351

Barcode: 0747313335121

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 27th October 2008

Contents

Artists

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

Artists

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

About

Michelangeli’s first recordings were made for HMV in Milan in 1939, following his win at the Geneva International Piano Competition.

In Granados’s Andaluza Michelangeli uses a soulful singing tone to great advantage, while his phenomenal virtuoso technique can be heard in Marescotti’s Fantasque, one of the test pieces for the Geneva Competition. These and the 1948 recordings of Bach, Galuppi and Brahms demonstrate that as a young man Michelangeli was already a consummate artist.

As a critic wrote about the recording of the Brahms Paganini Variations: “What a pianist! Technically, the playing is astonishing: interpretatively, here is a very great musician…. altogether this is the most exciting piano performance and recording I have heard for many a long day.”

Contents:
Bach: Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Recorded in Milan, 22nd January 1943

Bach, arr. Busoni: Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
Recorded in London, 27th October 1948

Tomeoni: Allegro in G;
Recorded in Milan, 22nd January 1943

Galuppi: Presto in B flat
Recorded in London, 27th October 1948

Scarlatti: Sonatas: Kk.96, Kk.27, Kk.11 and Kk.9
Recorded in Milan, 1941-1943

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op.35
Recorded in London, 26th October 1948

Granados: Danzas españolas, Op.37 No.5: Andaluza
Recorded in Milan, c. November–December 1939

Marescotti: Fantasque
Recorded in Milan, c. November–December 1939

Albeniz: Rumores de la caleta, Op.71; No.8: Malagueña
Recorded in Milan, c. December 1941–February 1942

Mompou: Canción y danza No.1
Recorded in Milan, c. December 1941–February 1942

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