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2020-09-26 05:25:46
Sometime in early 2000 I received for review a remarkable disc from the small and now long-defunct Assai label. It featured a 34-year-old pianist named Giovanni Bellucci in assertive, strikingly personalized, yet utterly riveting performances of the Liszt/Busoni “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” Fantasy and Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” sonata. Later in the decade, Bellucci launched […]
2019-06-01 07:00:00
The Irish TimesThe fearless Italian pianist goes operatic at this year's Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.
2017-12-13 16:40:51
Mark Viner(Piano Classics) The piano music of Charles-Valentin Alkan is no longer regarded as the preserve of a handful of zealous specialists. Over the last two decades a whole raft of young pianists have emerged keen to take on the challenges presented by the French composer’s keyboard writing, which is some of the most demanding in 19th-century music. The Piano Classics label has already documented a number of those exceptional performances, most notably in the revelatory series of discs from Vincenzo Maltempo, and now come two further additions to that series. One of them, played by Giovanni Bellucci, is devoted to Alkan’s early works – the three Concerti da Camera Op 10, and the first ever recording of the Six Pieces Op 16. The other, from the young British pianist Mark Viner, is a complete performance of one of his most substantial and remarkable cycles, the 12 Etudes in all the […]
2016-12-08 13:29:33
He plays the pompous English maestro who Rodrigo unseats, and then befriends. "It's really more about the politics and love, sex and classical music. Actually I've come full circle because that's exactly the ad line they used for [A] Clockwork Orange ...
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