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Michael Ponti
Un-Edited Live Performances 1
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36: I. Allegro Agitato
2. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36: II. Non Allegro - Lento
3. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36: III. Allegro Molto
4. Prelude for piano No.23 in G sharp minor, Op. 32/12
5. Etudes-Tableaux, for piano, Op. 39
6. Prelude for piano in D flat major, Op. 35/1
7. Prelude for piano in B flat major, Op. 35/2
8. Prelude for piano in C major, Op. 35/3
9. Etude for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 2/1
10. Etude for piano in B flat major, Op. 65/1
11. Etude for piano in C sharp major, Op. 65/2
12. Etude for piano in G major, Op. 65/3
13. Po?me satanique for piano in C major, Op. 36
14. Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 53
15. Work(s): Etude pour la main gauche
16. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: No. 1, 'Russian dance'
17. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: No. 2, 'In Petrushka's cell'
18. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: No. 3, 'The shrove-tide fair'

CD Details

All Artists: Michael Ponti
Title: Un-Edited Live Performances 1
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arlecchino/Arl
Release Date: 10/26/1994
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Suites, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 3421710110297, 342171011029

CD Reviews

Intense and passionate recordings!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 02/05/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The formidable technique equipment of Mr. Ponti as well his passionate romanticism in the Second Somata. You may argue this recording can not match with Horowitz for instance, but I beg you to listen at first giving me the doubt's benefice. This reluctant recording is such dramatic and intense that literally lets you exhausted at the end of the performiance which runs 25 minutes approximately.

The Scriabin is extremely interesting. The aureole of introspectiveness and poetic rapture is astonishing. Ponti plays these works with such conviction level and fevered pianism that it is hard for you to remain indiferent after listening them.

Finally the big surprise is the incandescent live performance of the three movements of Petruschka. To my mind there is not any other version played with such fierceness and Siberian moods.

This album is extremely recommendable for any one who is really interested to get close to that honest and undeservedly reknown pianist. Let me tell you that Michael Ponti has the immense honor -among other personal and artistic triumphs- of being the only pianist in the story who has recorded the entire repertoire of the following Russian composers: Alexander Scriabin, Piotr Illich Tcahiakovsky and Serguie Rachmaninoff. So I guess Ponti must domain the Russian musical language. Don't you?

Try to get this album as soon as you can!"