I bis di Nikita Magaloff (Remastered) Nikita Magaloff

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886): Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (n. 3 da “Années de pèlerinage; deuxièeme année: Italie”):
• 1Liszt: Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (n. 3 da “Années de pèlerinage; deuxièeme année: Italie”)03:06
• Gnomenreigen (Danza di gnomi) n. 2 da “Zwei Konzertetuden”:
• 2Liszt: Gnomenreigen (Danza di gnomi) n. 2 da “Zwei Konzertetuden”03:01
• Consolation n. 3:
• 3Liszt: Consolation n. 303:46
• La chasse (n. 5 da “Six Grandes Etudes de Paganini“):
• 4Liszt: La chasse (n. 5 da “Six Grandes Etudes de Paganini“)03:01
• Franz Liszt, Alexander Alabieff (1787 - 1851): Le Rossignol (n. 1 da “Deux Mélodies russes”):
• 5Liszt, Alabieff: Le Rossignol (n. 1 da “Deux Mélodies russes”)03:16
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Improvviso in mi bemolle maggiore op. 90 n. 2:
• 6Schubert: Improvviso in mi bemolle maggiore op. 90 n. 204:27
• Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849): Notturno in do diesis minore (Op. posth.):
• 7Chopin: Notturno in do diesis minore (Op. posth.)03:50
• Studio in sol bemolle maggiore op. 10 n. 5:
• 8Chopin: Studio in sol bemolle maggiore op. 10 n. 501:54
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Siciliana in sol minore dalla Sonata n. 2 per flauto e clavicembalo):
• 9Bach: Siciliana in sol minore dalla Sonata n. 2 per flauto e clavicembalo)02:33
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Danze ungheresi:
• 10Brahms: Danze ungheresi: n. 5 in fa diesis minore, n. 7 in fa maggiore, n. 9 in mi minore05:36
• Sergej Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943): Polichinelle op. 3 n. 4:
• 11Rachmaninov: Polichinelle op. 3 n. 403:24
• Sérénade op. 3 n. 5:
• 12Rachmaninov: Sérénade op. 3 n. 502:55
• Fryderyk Chopin: Andante spianato e Grande Polacca brillante op. 22:
• 13Chopin: Andante spianato e Grande Polacca brillante op. 2214:00
• Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo op. 117 n. 2:
• 14Brahms: Intermezzo op. 117 n. 203:36
• Total Runtime58:25

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Maurice Ravel said about him «A great musician is born, a really extraordinary one». He achieved his first international success playing with Joseph Szigeti, the famous violinist. After the war he was one of the first musicians who played in Paris and, after 1947, in USA. Among the countless outstanding events of his career may be mentioned the first performance of Prokofiev’s «VII Sonata», that of Strawinsky’s «Capriccio» under the direction of the composer, «tournées» in Europe, USA, Japan and Israel. He has been often and regularly present among the judges of the most important international competitions (Leeds, Warsaw, Bruxelles, Lucerne) always alert to the eventual discovery of talented persons among the young generations. He recorded pieces of music from Liszt, Tchaikowsky, Weber, Strawinsky, Brahms, Granados and recently, Chopin’s «opera omnia». Nikita Magaloff is an unexcelled interpreter of Chopin’s works which he presented in the most important European cities.

Nikita Magaloff, piano

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Nikita Magaloff
(1912-1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist. He was best known for his espousal of the music of Chopin, and was accustomed to perform the complete piano works in series of six recitals. He was the first one to ever record the completed works. These recordings were innovative for their textual fidelity and unsentimentality. His interpretations of Mendelssohn are also striking, finding a vein of melancholy that is often missed.

His playing, however, underwent a change in his later years, becoming more passionate, daring and challenging. He remarked in an interview that, "at the age of seventy, I have come to the conclusion that only the sentiment and fear of death can induce an immoderate passion for life." His last recordings bear eloquent tribute to this "immoderate passion for life.”

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