• 12. 7. 2024, 16:03

The Italian pianist Leonora Armellini (*1992) graduated summa cum laude at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome in 2009, under the guidance of Sergio Perticaroli. She won several national and international competitions, including the Premio Venezia (2005) and the Camillo Togni International Competition (2009). Moreover, Armellini was awarded the Janina Nawrocka Prize for “extraordinary musicality and beauty of sound” at the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010). In this recital, Armellini plays Ferruccio Busoni's adaptation of J. S. Bach's Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, BWV 903, followed by Frédéric Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 25. The recital ends with Franz Liszt’s Aprés une lecture de Dante, Fantasia Quasi Sonata. This performance was recorded at Palazzo Orsato Lazara Giusti del Giardino in Padua, Italy. (65 min)