Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Bach/Busoni & Beethoven

Michelangeli’s Bach/Busoni Chaconne is dispatched with angular dispassion on this second Salzburg Festival concert recording. The similarly cool attention to detail in the Beethoven is tempered... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: C943171B
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Salzburger Festspieldokumente
Length: 40 minutes

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Busoni: Transcription of Bach's Partita BWV 1004: Chaconne

14:28

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

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

25:33

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Recorded: 7 August 1965
Recording Venue: Österreichischen Rundfunks 3. Solistenkonzert Mozarteum, Austria

I. Allegro con brio (Live)

10:46

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II. Adagio (Live)

6:31

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III. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio (Live)

2:50

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IV. Allegro assai (Live)

5:26

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In 1965 the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, then 45, made his first and last appearance at the festival. Just how exceptional the appearance of this reclusive artist was can be seen in the fact that he strictly and successfully forbade the recording and broadcast of the second half of the concert. It is uniquely appropriate that one of the few Bach pieces from his publicly performed repertoire should be the Bach Chaconne for Violin – an instrument that Benedetti Michelangeli had himself studied and that he said he sought to imitate with his own highly sophisticated piano technique. The work is heard here in the transcription by Ferruccio Busoni. It’s intriguing once again how different the meticulously thought-out interpretations of his very limited public repertoire are, and striking how forcefully and not at all reservedly the Maestro sometimes permitted himself to play. The technically dazzling Beethoven Sonata op. 2 No. 3 is performed here with a perfection and at the same time a gutsy virtuosity that is quite disarming.

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February 2018

Michelangeli’s Bach/Busoni Chaconne is dispatched with angular dispassion on this second Salzburg Festival concert recording. The similarly cool attention to detail in the Beethoven is tempered by a playful scherzo.

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Bach/Busoni & Beethoven

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