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Michelangeli - The Early Recordings Volume 3
1939-1948
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Antonio Pedrotti & Alceo Galliera
the Schumann Concerto is as disappointing as the Grieg is subtle and mercurial, a classic illustration of the paradox at the heart of this great pianist...with the Grieg you enter another world,...
Michelangeli - The Early Recordings Volume 3
1939-1948
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Antonio Pedrotti & Alceo Galliera
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the Schumann Concerto is as disappointing as the Grieg is subtle and mercurial, a classic illustration of the paradox at the heart of this great pianist...with the Grieg you enter another world,...
About
Michelangeli was a peerless aristocrat of the piano. He had made his recording début for HMV in Milan in 1939, and in 1942 went into studios in the same city to record two major concertos for German Telefunken. Schumann’s Piano Concerto is played with a dazzling, almost improvisatory freedom, whereas the Grieg Piano Concerto is a forthright, poetic and virtuosic performance, albeit one of great warmth. The smaller pieces reveal his outstanding gradations of tone. Remarkably, Michelangeli never re-recorded either concerto again in the studio.
Ward Marston, producer and audio restoration engineer
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Awards and reviews
May 2013
the Schumann Concerto is as disappointing as the Grieg is subtle and mercurial, a classic illustration of the paradox at the heart of this great pianist...with the Grieg you enter another world, one where lyricism and piquancy complement flashes of a unique command in the cadenza.
