About

I am an italian pianist, I got a master in piano and I am currently active as concert artist. I am focused on italian music from the XIX century: opera pieces transcribed for piano solo.

People are intrigued by his unusual yet impressive choice of repertoire. It contains little-known piano transcriptions of operatic works written by 19th century composers whose names are relatively obscure and an unusual selection of pieces from famous operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Boheme, Madama Butterfly) that have been arranged by assorted musicians, some famous, others less so (Liszt, Czerny, Ricordi, Raff, Thalberg, Wittgenstein, etc).

My aims are to widen the horizons, to explore more fully the inherent musicality of transcriptions from orchestral and operatic forms, from the most complex to the most simple. Busoni said that all renderings are transcriptions and in this case it follows that I am making a transcription out of a transcription. The pianist has to ask himself two specific questions when playing this kind of music: shall I recreate a singer’s voice (with all the pros and cons) or shall I just take care of the pianistic aspects? The reply to this question may vary over time and may depend on extra-musical constraints. It is true that the singing voice of Thalberg, which is helped by a rich harmonic sustain, has to be treated differently from Wittgenstein’s piece which has no harmonic sustain.

Music

V. De Meglio: “Preghiera” dal Mosé di Rossini trascritta e variata per Pianoforte
G. di Tollo: Variazioni sul “Tancredi” di Rossini
F. Chopin: Hexameron
F. Chopin: “Adieu”-Polonaise op. post
J.Strauss: Melodien-Quadrillen nach motiven von G.Verdi
F. Chopin: Studio op.25 n.7
P. Wittgenstein: “Coro a bocca chiusa” da “Madama Butterfly” (left hand only)
G. Martucci: Fantasia su “La Forza del Destino” di Giuseppe Verdi

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C. Czerny: Fantasia su “I Puritani” di Bellini
S. Thalberg: “Casta Diva” da “Norma” di Bellini
A. Fumagalli: “O signore dal tetto natio“ da “I lombardi alla prima crociata” di Giuseppe Verdi
G. Verdi / J. Raff: Mercé dilette amiche
F. Masciangelo: Un omaggio per il Santo Natale
G. Ricordi: Fantasia su Rigoletto
F. Liszt: Rigoletto-Paraphrase

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