BEETHOVEN:
Piano concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15
Orchestra sinfonica della RAI di
Torino, Bruno Bartoletti conductor
Live performance,Torino, 1973.
Piano concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Orchestra sinfonica della RAI di
Torino, Vittorio Gui conductor
Live performance, Torino, 1970.
Bruno Bartoletti
Vittorio Gui
When a car accident on a Roman road in 1974 took
the life of Dino Ciani, we lost a pianist who had already fulfilled
his teacher Cortot's description of him as "an example of
a youth possessing the rarest gifts bestowed by nature, able to
perceive the real balance of creative invention in a variety of
manifestations."
His Deutsche Gramophone recordings and live performances on other
labels, reveal elegance, creativity and imagination. Dino frequently
played with orchestras and the conductors had the highest regards
for his partnership. It is regrettable that only a few of his
live concerto recordings have been available. The present offering
goes towards filling this gap. His clear-cut conception with dashes
of Romantic detail goes convincingly well with these two Beethoven
concertos.