Michele Campanella

In 2007 Michele Campanella will celebrate his sixtieth birthday and forty years of an international career that has seen him perform almost all scores for the piano both in concert and as a soloist accompanied by an orchestra as well as playing chamber music. His most recent performances include all concerts composed by Mozart and Beethoven, as well as Brahms. He remains one of the greatest interpreters of the Liszt repertoire; the “Franz Liszt” Academy in Budapest in fact awarded him the Gran Prix du Disque in 1976, in 1977 and in 1998 for the 2 CDs entitled Franz Liszt. The Great Transcriptions (Philips). Campanella will commemorate this important moment in a life devoted to music, to concerts, to teaching, presenting all over Europe a cycle of theme programmes with the composers and compositions that have marked his career. The recital with which he inaugurates the 86th season of the Filarmonica Laudamo is based on a very important date: the year 1874, which saw the creation of masterpieces such as Pictures at an Exhibition by Musorgskij, Liszt’s paraphrasing of Verdi’s Aida and Brahms’ Klavierstücke op. 76.