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Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
About Giovanni Bellucci
- Giovanni Bellucci (born Rome, 31 August 1965) is an Italian pianist. After having inadvertently discovered the piano, when he was already fourteen, he started studying at the âS.
- Ceciliaâ Conservatoire in Rome under the direction of Franco Medori.
- After having taken his degree summa cum laude and honourable mention, he was awarded a "Master" at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola.
- As a result he could subsequently claim amongst his contacts artists of the stature of Paul Badura-Skoda, Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia and Maurizio Pollini. His recording of Franz Lisztâs Paraphrases of Verdi and Bellini operas was included in Diapason magazineâs selection of the all-time top 10 Liszt recordings.
- Apart from Bellucci, the music critic Alain Lompech only took into consideration artists such as Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Aldo Ciccolini, Gyorgy Cziffra, Wilhelm Kempff and Krystian Zimerman.
- For the British magazine Gramophone, Bellucci is an artist born into the great Italian tradition and brought up to it - a tradition historically represented by Busoni, Zecchi, Michelangeli, Ciani, Pollini.âHe takes us back to the golden age of the pianoâ declared the daily Le Monde in highlighting Bellucciâs success in the World Piano Masters Competition in Montecarlo 1996 â the last in a lengthy series of successes in international competitions (from the âQueen Elisabethâ in Brussels to the âPrague Springâ, from the RAI âCasellaâ to the âC.
- Kahnâ in Paris, from the âBusoniâ to the âFranz Lisztâ).
- In 2005, he received the award "Recital of the year" after his first concert tour in Australia.All his CDs, published by Decca, WARNER CLASSICS, ACCORD-UNIVERSAL, OPUS 106, ASSAI, and DANACORD, have been awarded by specialist publications: âChoc de lâannĂ©eâ by the Classical magazine RĂ©pertoire and "CHOC" of Le Monde de la musique in France, UK Gramophoneâs âEditorâs choiceâ, â5 Starsâ from Musica, â5 starsâ from the BBC Music Magazine, âCd exceptionnelâ from RĂ©pertoire, âffffâ from TĂ©lĂ©rama, âBest Cdâ from the magazine Suono, etc. The recording company Universal has published the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies S244 by Franz Liszt (with a double CD including a rare work, such as the Romanian Rhapsody S242) and the CD Chopin MĂ©tamorphoses, where Giovanni Bellucci played some works as world premiere, like the Concerto No.
- 1 by Chopin/Tausig and the Polonaise op.
- 53 âHeroicâ by Chopin/Busoni.
- The Concerto op 39 for piano and orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni, recorded by the Italian pianist with the orchestra and choir of the Mannheim National Theater, will soon be published.
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