Thalberg reviews
Casta Diva (Vanessa Benelli Mosell)
Vanessa Benelli Mossell (piano) (Decca)
Thalberg: L'art du chant appliqué au piano, etc
Paul Wee (piano) (BIS)
Liszt • Thalberg: Transcriptions and Fantasies...
Marc-André Hamelin (piano) (Hyperion)
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Thalberg: Opera Fantasies
Performed by pianist Mark Viner.
Thalberg
Here’s a happy find for explorers of Romantic piano music. Thalberg, like his contemporaries, Chopin and Liszt, was a virtuoso pianist-composer. His original works have been eclipsed by his numerous fantasies on music by others, but some of his textural innovations rubbed off on composers greater than himself, not least Robert Schumann. The Grand Sonata is ambitious, skilfully crafted and full of felicitous ideas. This, and the other pieces, perfectly suit Hominick’s enviable technique. Wadham Sutton