Il pianoforte, la musica; le uniche entità per le quali, per Ciccolini, il vivere, nella sua assurdità, aveva un senso! Caro Maestro ti ricorderemo con grande affetto!
Il Maestro dimostra che la grandezza di un interprete non ha età! Anzi il colore e il calore della maturità rendono stupefacente lo straordinario, sublime il meraviglioso.... I Tuoi Fans non Ti dimenticheranno mai , Maestro! Marco Rotondi
85 years old, playing still in public with noise distractions, arthosis and all the difficulties that piano has when playing a masterpiece. Great musician. Bravo!
In 1941 Aldo Ciccolini made his debut as soloist in Chopin's F minor Concerto at the Theater San Carlo in Naples. After the war, in 1949, he won the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris (among the other prize-winners were Paul Badura-Skoda and Pierre Barbizet). In November 1950, he made his USA debut as soloist in Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos. He became a French citizen in 1969 and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1970 to 1988, where his students included Akiko Ebi, Géry Moutier, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artur Pizarro and Nicholas Angelich. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said "I have hardly met a more wonderful partner and a more delightful companion."
the initial fingering--crossing 4 over 5-- provides for a great colour! It reminds me Chopin's original fingering for other pieces. Ciccolini maraviglioso... my humble respects!!!
Il suo fraseggio cosi legato spinto da una MUSICALITA FOLGORANTE fanno dI ALDO CICCOLINI UNO TRA I POCHI PIÚ GRANDI INTERPRETI DEL MONDO.MARIO OLIVOTTO
