Thalberg: Fantasies on Operas by Verdi, Rossini & Bellini / Nicolosi

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
June 10, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Sigismond Thalberg
    • PERFORMER
      Francesco Nicolosi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 10, 2022
    • UPC
      747313550326
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8555503
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

A student of Hummel, Sigismond Thalberg was one of the great virtuoso pianist-composers of the 19th century, who enjoyed a celebrated rivalry with Liszt that was largely fomented by the press. Thalberg’s influence on fellow pianists was enormous and his operatic paraphrases and fantasies, designed for his own use in concert performances, proved exceptionally popular. Even Liszt himself performed several of them. Berlioz praised Thalberg as the creator of ‘a new art’ and the thrilling examples here, taking the best-known themes from great Italian operas, reveal bravura embellishments and ingenious elaborations.