Alfonso Soldano - Metamorphoses '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. 6 Romances, Op. 8 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 2, Child!
Thou Art as Beautiful as a Flower
02. 15 Romances, Op. 26 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 2, He
Took All from Me
03. 6 Romances, Op. 4 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 2, Morning
04. 6 Romances, Op. 8 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 5, The
Dream
05. 12 Songs Without Opus (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 8, Do
You Remember the Evening?
06. 6 Romances, Op. 4 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 1, Oh No.,
I Beg You, Forsake Me Not!
07. 12 Songs Without Opus (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 5,
Twilight has Fallen
08. 6 Romances, Op. 8 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 1, The
Water Lily
09. 12 Romances, Op. 14 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 7,
Believe Me Not, Friend!
10. 15 Romances, Op. 26 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 12, Night
Is Mournful
11. 12 Romances, Op. 21 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 4, They
Answered
12. 12 Romances, Op. 21 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 7, How
Fair This Spot
13. 12 Romances, Op. 14 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 5, These
Summer Nights
14. 6 Romances, Op. 4 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 3, in the
Silence of the Secret Night
15. 12 Romances, Op. 14 (Excerpts Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 11,
Spring Waters
16. L'enfant prodigue, L. 57: I. Prélude (Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo)
17. Nocturnes, L. 91 (Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 1, Nuages
18. Nocturnes, L. 91 (Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 2, Fêtes
19. Nocturnes, L. 91 (Arr. A. Soldano for Piano Solo): No. 3, Sirènes


Alfonso Soldano is professor of piano performance at the Giordano Conservatory
in Foggia, Italy, following similar posts at Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and
in Trani. He was a favorite student of Ciccolini and is renowned for his
virtuosity. He was awarded the International Gold Medal for ‘Best Italian
Artist’ in 2013 and has won many other competitions, and is also a busy
writer and transcriber. His previous recordings for Divine Art, of the music of
Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, received glowing reviews. He
has performed and given masterclasses all around Italy, and in Germany,
Switzerland and Romania, and post-Covid is planning a wider international
concert schedule, hoping to tour the USA. His Rachmaninoff is especially
magical. He has transcribed 15 of the composer’s romantic songs for solo
piano in three books of ‘Romances’ which he performs here with
works by Debussy which Soldano has also transcribed. The album is a glorious,
sumptuous immersion in late Romantic and Impressionist music which will appeal
equally to classical experts and the wider general public. It is a collection of
sheer beauty. 

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