The Warsaw Recital 1955

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BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / etc
The Warsaw Recital 1955
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

[ Altara / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 5 October 2009

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"The Altara CD also includes superb performances of Beethoven…Scarlatti…Chopin…Debussy and Mompou…the sound here is altogether clearer than on any previous edition I've heard." Rob Cowan (The Gramophone)

"…if you want to hear a great pianist captured on the wing in recital then Michelangeli's 1955 Warsaw recording of Schumann's Faschingsschwank aus Wien has to be among your first ports of call. To hear the Intermezzo so performed - with so much subtle shading - is to understand at least one explanation for Michelangeli's awesome reputation. Such a beautiful sound too: powerful, sonorous and silky smooth, with the most melting pianissimo. The Altara CD also includes superb performances of Beethoven…Scarlatti…Chopin…Debussy and Mompou…the sound here is altogether clearer than on any previous edition I've heard." Rob Cowan (The Gramophone)

Tracks:

Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3

Chopin:
Waltz No. 17 in E flat major, Op. post., KKIVa:14, B 46

Debussy:
Hommage à Rameau (No. 2 from Images pour piano - Book 1)

Mompou:
Cancion y danza No. 1

Scarlatti, D:
Keyboard Sonata K11 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor
Keyboard Sonata K322 in A major
Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor

Schumann:
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26