"Actor: Franceso Libetta"

• Libetta In Lecce - The Art Of The Virtuoso | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-5.20%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This recording documents the pianist's one-hundredth recital. (His performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas and his private concerts belong to a separate account.) The program is vintage Libetta - a sophisticated assembly of works that one way of another dance: Beethoven's sonata opus 31 number 3 (the second movement anticipates Delibes the finale is a tarantella); a passepied of Delibes; Chaminate's Les Sylvains' the Schubert/Godowsky Rosamunde ballet music; Ravel's La Valse; Chopin's Souvenir de Paganini Tarantelle and the mazurka dedicated a son ami Emile Gaillard; and both books of Brahms's Paganini variations (based on the caprice that also inspired Liszt Lutoslawski and Rachmaninov among others). What is most compelling about this program is the way in which Important Music (for instance Beethoven) illumines and is illumined by music that is not usually thought to be Important (for instance Delibes).