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Was Michelangeli's best playing his earliest? Here's a remarkable artist - overwhelmingly masterful in Brahms's Paganini Variations, engaging in Bach, poetic in Scarlatti, impulsive and haunting... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2008
Catalogue No: 8111351
Label: Naxos
Series: Historical, Great Pianists
Length: 79 minutes

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Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Work length11:50

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

I. Allegro

Track length3:46

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II. Andante

Track length4:38

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III. Presto

Track length3:26

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Bach, J S: Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004, V. Chaconne

Work length13:40

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona (Chaconne) [arr. F. Busoni for piano]

Track length13:40

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Tomeoni, P: Allegro in G Major

Work length2:41

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Galuppi: Presto in B-Flat Major

Work length4:12

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K96 in D major

Work length5:06

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Keyboard Sonata in D Major, K.96 / L.465 / P.210

Track length5:06

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Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor

Work length2:47

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, K.27 / L.449 / P.83

Track length2:47

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Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Kk. 11

Work length3:02

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, K.11 / L.352 / P.67

Track length3:02

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Scarlatti, D: Keyboard Sonata K9 in D minor

Work length3:20

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K.9 / L.413 / P.65

Track length3:20

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Brahms: Variations on a theme by Paganini in A minor, Op. 35

Work length16:16

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Theme

Track length0:27

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Variation I

Track length0:25

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Variation II

Track length0:28

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Variation III

Track length0:28

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Variation IV

Track length0:47

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Variation V

Track length0:40

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Variation VI

Track length0:24

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Variation VII

Track length0:23

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Variation VIII

Track length0:28

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Variation X

Track length1:16

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Variation XI

Track length1:07

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Variation XII

Track length0:52

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Variation I

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Variation II

Track length0:24

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Variation V

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Variation VI

Track length0:20

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Variation VII

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Variation VIII

Track length0:27

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Variation X

Track length0:41

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Variation XI

Track length0:30

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Variation XII

Track length1:07

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Variation XIII

Track length0:44

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Variation III

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Variation IV

Track length1:10

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Variation XIII

Track length0:34

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Variation XIV

Track length0:40

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Excerpt, Granados: Danzas españolas, Op. 37 Nos. 1-12

Work length4:59

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

12 Danzas españolas (Spanish Dances), Op. 37: No. 5, Andaluza [Playera]

Track length4:59

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Marescotti: Fantasque

Work length4:19

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Albéniz: Recuerdos de Viaje, Op. 71

Work length3:49

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

No. 8, Rumores de la Caleta, Malagueña

Track length3:49

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Mompou: Cançons i danses

Work length2:59

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Canco i dansa No. 1

Track length2:59

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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 performance and recording I have heard for many a long day.”

“Apollonian stance and awe-inspiring control….. The dynamic range reinforces the Lisztian patina of Michelangeli's conception….[a] ravishing, multi-layered sound world.” Classics Today

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February 2009

Was Michelangeli's best playing his earliest? Here's a remarkable artist - overwhelmingly masterful in Brahms's Paganini Variations, engaging in Bach, poetic in Scarlatti, impulsive and haunting in Granados and Albéniz.

2010

Michelangeli ranks among the grandest of all musical autocrats. And when his transcendent mastery is complemented by warmth, wit and charm, such additions are beyond price. Early in his career he possessed a Romantic as well as magisterial charisma, and listening to his performance of Bach's Italian Concerto with its wealth of colour, nuance and resilience is to be reminded that a human heart beat beneath that legendary froideur. What sparkle, too, in Tomeoni's G major Allegro and how he plays the arch-seducer to the manner born in Albé- niz's Malagueña. Granados's Andaluza is heavily but irresistibly personalised, all fun and fancyfree; hardly for lovers of a more 'correct' Spanish style, while Marescotti's Fantasque is spun off with a virtuosity as life-enhancing as it is thrilling.
Michelangeli's reordering of the Brahms Paganini Variations is odd, but his performance remains of classic status. So, too, does his way with the Bach/Busoni Chaconne with his rapid tempi and lean, not-an-ounce-of-fat way with Busoni's maestoso instruction. This is an issue that all lovers of great artistry will pounce on, particularly when so enticingly offered on Naxos's bargain label.

March 2009

Michelangeli ranks among the grandest of all musical autocrats. And when his transcendent mastery is complemented by warmth, wit and charm, such additions are beyond price. This is an issue that all lovers of great artistry will pounce on…

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