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CLEMENTI, M.: Gradus ad Parnassum, Vol. 1 (Marangoni) - Nos. 1-24

Composer(s):Clementi, Muzio
Artist(s) Marangoni, Alessandro, piano
Period(s) Classical (1750-1830)
Genre Classical Music
Category Instrumental
Catalogue 8.572325
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
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Remembered as the first of the great piano virtuosos, Muzio Clementi condensed his years of composition and performance into the monumental, three-volume Gradus ad Parnassum, a repository of stylistically diverse pieces designed to demonstrate utmost technical mastery of the instrument. Praised for his recordings of Rossini’s piano music for Naxos (8.570590-91, 8.570766 & 8.572315), the award-winning Italian pianist Alessandro Marangoni scales the heights of Clementi’s piano studies with an ease that belies their extraordinary demands, bringing to life their unfailingly engaging qualities. This is the

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Review By Dino Gatti,La Cittadella,July 2011


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Review By Gonzalo Pérez Chamorro ,Ritmo,June 2011

CLEMENTI, M.: Gradus ad Parnassum, Vol. 1 (Marangoni) - Nos. 1-24 8.572325
ROSSINI, G.: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (Marangoni) - Peches de vieillesse, Vol. 5 8.572315



Review By ma,Pizzicato,April 2011

Né en 1979, ayant étudié auprès de Maria Tipo, le jeune pianiste italien Alessandro Marangoni a entrepris d’enregistrer l’intégrale des 100 études et exercices qui forment l’opus 44 de Muzio Clementi, ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’. Sur ce premier disque, qui comprend 24 exercices, Marangoni surprend par les nuances et la musicalité qu’il confère à ces pièces qui, sous ses mains sensibles et agiles, dépassent le stade de l’étude pour former, souvent regroupées en suites de plusieurs pièces, des unités comparables à des sonates. Une entreprise enrichissante pour chaque amateur du piano.



Review By CIDIM,March 2011

Il giovane e pluripremiato pianista si confronta con uno dei pilastri del virtuosimo pianistico con la semplicitià della perfezione.



Review By Scott Noriega ,Fanfare,March 2011

The Gradus ad Parnassum is hardly a concert work. These are exercises that were written to prepare a student for the more demanding works of the day, including many of Clementi’s own. A few pianists—Horowitz included—have brought one or two of these pieces with them into the concert hall. Some of the exercises here are hardly more than workouts for the fingers, built around very simple harmonic frameworks. Occasionally, though, as in exercise 5, one feels that the lyrical quality of the piece was meant to provide more than just a technical challenge but also a musical one. Alessandro Marangoni provides a good guide to these pieces. He can handle the sometimes dauntingly fast scales, double thirds, and arpeggios, bring out the music in the more lyrical ones, while

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Review By Ritmo,February 2011


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Review By Opus,February 2011


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Review By Suonare.it,January 2011


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Review By G.P. Minardi,Gazzetta di Parma,December 2010


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