BELLEARTI
pays homage to
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
, one of the most famous piano interpreters of the twentieth century, on the centenary of his birth with the concert "behind closed doors" by pianist
Alexander Romanovsky in the Sala della Vittoria Alata at the Capitolium in Brescia,
which is broadcast
on 25 December from ANSA.it and Sky Classica
, on December 26th on BELLEARTI's social channels and on January 1st from Teletutto.
"Benedetti Michelangeli has managed to raise the act of playing the piano to an almost sacred function - affirms Romanovsky - We can talk about his very refined sound, virtuosity at the limits of the imagination always invisible and measured, but what strikes him most of all it's his ability to thicken the senses, to strip the idea of the "unnecessary" and to make the music incredibly rigorous, yet intense at the same time. "
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was born in Brescia on January 5, 1921. At the age of four he began to study piano and violin with his father (piano teacher, composer and lawyer).
At a very young age he became a student - after an audition and an admission test - of the "Venturi" Musical Institute of Brescia.
In 1931 he entered the Milan Conservatory.
Acclaimed in theaters all over the world, he held his last Italian concert in Brescia, on a charity occasion, in June 1980 at the Teatro Grande.
"In art there is no progress - continues Romanovsky - the great who have touched the absolute with a finger remain forever contemporary and therefore young people can and want to confront it. As always contemporary, man's desire to understand 'unknown, to approach the divine, and in Benedetti Michelangeli's art there seems to be a mystery hidden, which, perhaps, will be revealed more to future generations than to us. "
This celebratory concert is evocatively set in the Capitolium where the large Roman bronze sculpture of the "Vittoria Alata" is set up, just restored, and includes pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin - particularly loved by Michelangeli: JS Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1004, transcription for piano by Rudolf Lutz L Beethoven, Sonata op.
27 no.2 "In the moonlight" I. Sustained adage II.
Allegretto III.
Presto agitato F Chopin, 12 preludes from op.28.
"Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has bequeathed us a body of recordings of a chiseled beauty and built through a work in many ways extreme of the search for quality - explains Romanovsky - Precisely for this reason in practically every kind of compositions we find a 100 pure Michelangeli Percent. Debussy, Beethoven or Chopin, each work has passed through the sieve of the soul and personality of Michelangelo with a refinement and concentration such as to acquire its unmistakable taste. Personally I love those performances of his where suddenly behind the curtain of his appearance severe and almost ascetic you can see a melancholy and sensitive heart as it happens in some mazurkas and Chopin's waltzes. Another recording among my favorites is the first Beeethoven concert with Carlo Maria Giulini - an ideal meeting of two very different musicians. "
The event will be documented by the images of Giovanni Gastel, one of the major international fashion photographers as well as a writer and poet.
