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MICHELANGELI, Arturo Benedetti: Early Recordings, Vol. 1 (1939-1948)

Composer(s):
Artist(s) Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti, piano
Period(s) 20th CenturyBaroque (1600-1750)Romantic
Genre Classical Music
Category ConcertosInstrumental
Catalogue 8.111351
Label Naxos Historical
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 


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

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Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti 1939-48 recordings
Review By KW63321,July 2009

These forty tracks are excellently transferred from their original analogue versions, resulting in outstanding sound quality. This compilation would merit a five-star rating but for the fact that some tracks are a little too close together.

Throughout, Michelangeli gives masterful performances, true to his perfectionist technical standards. They are special for me because this musician has interested me ever since 1949 when I bought his original 78 rpm shellac 1948 recording of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne.

He plays Bach's Italian Concerto beautifully, though I feel the slow movement moves forward too fast, losing some of its latent mystery.

His October 1948 recording of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne is astounding (track 4 of this album); no-one can surpass more....



Review By Bryce Morrison, Gramophone,March 2009

Proves a human heart beat beneath the cool exterior of this Prince of Pianists

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Review By David Denton, Naxos,November 2008

History may well describe Michelangeli as the most musically gifted pianist of the 20th century, a description in keeping with his recordings made between 1939 and 1948.

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