Alessandro Commellato – Thalberg: L’Art du chant applique au piano, Op. 70, Vol. 1 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

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Alessandro Commellato – Thalberg: L’Art du chant applique au piano, Op. 70, Vol. 1 (2021)
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The first fortepiano recording of a collection belatedly gaining recognition beyond pianophile circles as a major keyboard cycle of late Romanticism.

Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871) has a reputation as the only pianist who made Liszt feel nervous, but he also won praise from Mendelssohn for the fidelity of his approach to the letter and the spirit of a score. A famous anecdote tells also of an evening in Rossini’s Parisian salon. Sigismond Thalberg had just finished performing at the piano when Rossini said: “Agree that Thalberg has just given you a singing lesson such as you have never had”, referring to the cantabile, refinement and expressiveness of the pianist’s touch.

Thalberg gathered four volumes of operatic and song transcriptions under the umbrella of L’art du chant appliqué au piano, with the first two volumes published in 1853 and followed a decade later by Volumes 3 and 4.
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