Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Haydn & Beethoven
Label: Tahra Catalog: TAH685 Format: CD Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano; Orchestra di Torino della RAI, conductor Mario Rossi (Haydn); Orchestra di Roma della RAI, conductor Massimo Freccia (Beethoven)Haydn & Beethoven The Emperor concerto was the piece for piano and orchestra that Michelangeli played the most: between 1939 and 1987 he performed it over a hundred times. All these interpretations are identical only in appearance, but in reality they all bear a complete autonomous identity due to imperceptible variations in the sound. Until 1953 it is light, brilliant and sensual; in later performances it becomes increasingly stern, essential and metaphysical. It is here where Michelangeli's secret lies : it is an art concentrated towards an ideal of a perfection that he cultivated in the loneliness of a personality that made no concession whatsoever for the tastes of stardom and mundane society, an art from his own times but extraordinarily modern for its moral and aesthetic values. Price: $18.98 |