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Beethoven/Busoni/Liszt Piano Works

Not just another Hammerklavier recording. This reading, by a remarkable young artist, is simply too special to ignore

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Author: Richard Osborne

Here is something altogether out of the ordinary: a powerful and unusual programme, shrewdly assembled, and a remarkable pianist as yet barely known to the wider concert-going and record-buying public.
If the story is to be believed, the multiple prize-winning Giovanni Bellucci (born in Rome in 1965) did not go near a piano until he was 14. At 20, he was deemed a phenomenon by his teachers; Lazar Berman was among those who later marvelled at his talent. The Italian school of piano playing, too little considered outside Italy as a subject in its own right, has always been distinctive in its physical and intellectual temper: the names Busoni, Zecchi, Michelangeli, Ciani, Pollini suggest what that implies. Listen to the controlled vitality of rhythm in Bellucci's playing and the spare, some would say ascetic, beauty of his sound, and you will instantly recognise an arti

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Giovanni Bellucci is one of the most authoritative pianists of our time

Giovanni Belluccihe is one of the most authoritative pianists of our time. Diapason magazine places him in the Top Ten of Lisztian pianists in history, alongside Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel, Aldo Ciccolini, Gyorgy Cziffra, Wilhelm Kempff, Krystian Zimerman. Several times Gramophone's “Editor's Choice” award, the British magazine defines Bellucci as “an artist destined to continue the great Italian tradition, historically represented by Busoni, Zecchi, Michelangeli, Ciani, Pollini”.
"There are no ten pianists like him in the world: he takes us back to the golden age of the piano", is how Le Monde announces Bellucci's victory at the World Piano Masters Competition in Montecarlo 1996, which reached the culmination of a long series of successes in international competitions: Queen Elizabeth of Brussels, Spring in Prague, Casella della Rai-Napoli, Claude Kahn of Paris, Busoni of Bolzano. “Ferenc Liszt Lifetime Achievement Award”, Bellucci was included by Diapason magaz
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Giovanni Bellucci

Italian pianist

Giovanni Bellucci (born Rome, 31 August 1965) is an Italian pianist.

After having inadvertently discovered the piano, when he was already fourteen, he started studying at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome under the direction of Franco Medori. After having taken his degree summa cum laude and honourable mention, he was awarded a "Master" at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola.[1] As a result, he could subsequently claim amongst his contacts artists of the stature of Paul Badura-Skoda, Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, and Maurizio Pollini.

His recording of Franz Liszt's Paraphrases of Verdi and Bellini operas was included in Diapason magazine's selection of the all-time top 10 Liszt recordings.[2] Apart from Bellucci, the music critic Alain Lompech only took into consideration artists such as Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Aldo Ciccolini, Gyorgy Cziffra, Wilhelm Kempff, and Krystian Zimerman. For the British magazine Gramophone,[3] Bellucci[4] is an artist born into the great Italian tradi

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