Les Soirées de Pausilippe - Hommage à Rossini
THALBERG Sigismond (1812-1871)
Francesco Nicolosi (Piano)
Label : Naxos
Artikelnummer: 8555668
1 CD Spielzeit : 052:22
CHF 13.50
Thalberg was a virtuoso pianist whose training included studies with Mozart's pupil Hummel, and whose rivalry with Franz Liszt became the talk of Paris in the 1830s. He excelled in the fashionable solo piano genre of operatic paraphrase but, while drawing on themes by the ever-popular Rossini, Les Soirées de Pausilippe avoids ostentatious excess. Instead Thalberg preferred an elegant simplicity in which the piano is allowed to sing in emulation of the operatic originals.