Carlo Bergonzi - Discographic Career - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In these recordings from Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Dvorak' most darkly dramatic and passionate symphony, the Seventh, is coupled with his Eighth, notable for it's dramatic contrasts.

Verdi / Bergonzi,Carlo / Solti,Georg Sir - Un Ballo in Maschera [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/03/2015

Carlo Grante is among the most prolific recording pianists today. His recorded repertoire is broad in scope and includes everything from his critically acclaimed series The Complete Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti to works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Busoni, Godowsky, Ravel, and contemporary composers. This marks Grante's first recording of the music of Johannes Brahms. Carlo Grante has performed in such major venues as the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie's Chamber Music Hall, London's Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall, Rome's Santa Cecilia Hall, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresden Semperoper, the Stuttgart Opera, Prague's Rudolfinum, as well as at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in the US. He has appeared as soloist with major orchestras including the Dresden Staatskapelle, London's Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, Orchestra of St. Cecilia, MDR Leipzig, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Concertino Wien. Grante gave the first live performance of all 53 of Godowsky's Studies on the Études of Chopin at the Newport Festival. In 2014-15 his series InchMasters of High RomanticismInch, featuring three recital programmes each devoted to Chopin, Schumann and Brahms, was taken to major halls in New York, Vienna and Berlin. Though best known perhaps for his Scarlatti, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Busoni, Debussy and Godowsky, Grante has had many contemporary works dedicated to him, including Adolphe's Chopin Dreams. He has brought out over 60 albums; his most recent discs have been devoted to the works of Scarlatti, Busoni, Schubert, Brahms, Godowsky and Adolphe. He gave the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe's piano concerto in Zurich in July 2016. The New York Met's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi wrote of him in 2015 that InchCarlo Grante is one of the most astonishing artists I have ever known and worked with. Inch The principal