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2022-02-26 05:00:00
Arias from Demofoonte by Pietro Anfossi, Baldassare Galuppi, Johann Christian Bach, Josef Myslivecek, Niccolo Jommelli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Bernasconi & Giuseppe Sarti Charlotte Schäfer, [My favorite] Soprano Michael Preiser, Concerto con Anima (Period Instruments) Ars Produktion ARS 38 262 (2018) [Flac & Scans]
2021-11-14 18:24:30
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli began studying violin at age three. He later entered the Milan Conservatory as a piano student of Giuseppe Anfossi, graduating at age 14. In 1939 he won first prize at the Geneva International Piano Competition. He served in the Italian air force during World War II. His debuts in London (1946) and New York (1948) won critical acclaim, and he embarked upon an international career. Despite a small repertoire as a leading concert pianist, Michelangeli was especially adept at performing pieces by certain composers, including Beethoven’s early compositions, Brahms’Paganini Variations, Chopin’s Ballades, and other works by Rachmaninoff,
2020-01-24 10:44:55
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli began music lessons at the age of 3, initially with the violin, but quickly switched to the piano. At the age of four he began studying at the Istituto Musicale Venturi under the direction of Paolo Chimeri. At 10 he entered the Milan Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition under Giovanni Anfossi as well as violin with Renzo Francesconi. He obtained his soloist’s diploma at the age of 14. At the insistence of his father he studied medicine for a brief period of time. In 1938, at age 18, he began his international career by entering
2016-02-11 16:00:51
The name’s the same
[…] stage works are still occasionally revived, with recordings of both Zanaida and Amadis de Gaule , his final opera (written in French), released in just the past several years. Phlippe Jaroussky also put out a collection of the composer’s arias for castrato. J.C. Bach’s Lucio Silla, composed for Mannheim just three years after Mozart’s, was performed as recently as 2013 during Salzburg’s Mozartwoche alongside a stage revival of Mozart’s and excerpts from Pasquale Anfossi’s. Germany’s Schwetzinger Festival has long been known for its revivals of rare 17th and 18th century operas—this year it will present Cavalli’s Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona. This broadcast features one of the earliest recordings I’ve found of the great Varady who soon after sang the trouser role of Cecilio in Leopold Hager’s marvelous recording (currently out-of-print) of Mozart’s Lucio Silla opposite the spectacular Giunia of Arleen Auger. Johann Christian Bach: Lucio Silla […]
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