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Label Evil Penguin |
UPC 0608917724622 |
Catalogue number EPRC 0059 |
Release date 12 January 2024 |
"You hear the expressive dynamic possibilities – the funeral march rumbles dully, the scherzo chimes cheerfully in the supple keys. In the finale, the hammering bass reveals other details."
De Volkskrant, 18-1-2024October 1803: On hearing Beethoven play the “Eroica” Symphony on his new Erard Frères piano, a witness remarked, “Heaven and Earth must shake at its performance.” Inspired by this historical scene, Luca Montebugnoli has created a new arrangement of the symphony designed for and played on a unique replica of Beethoven’s Erard piano. By delivering a novel interpretation of an iconic work, Montebugnoli revives the neglected art of piano arrangement, while also exploring the full potential of what was in Beethoven’s life a revolutionary instrument.
Octobre 1803 : en entendant Beethoven jouer sa Symphonie « Héroïque » sur son nouveau piano Erard, un témoin remarque : « Le ciel et la terre doivent trembler à cette exécution ». Inspiré par cette scène historique, Luca Montebugnoli a créé un nouvel arrangement de la symphonie, conçu pour être joué sur une réplique unique du piano Erard de Beethoven. En livrant une nouvelle interprétation d'une œuvre emblématique, il fait ainsi revivre l'art négligé de l'arrangement pour piano, tout en explorant le potentiel complet de ce qui fut, dans la vie de Beethoven, un instrument révolutionnaire.
Italian pianist and fortepianist, Luca Montebugnoli is a versatile performer, teacher and researcher.
After graduating in modern piano at the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” of Rome, he moved to Paris to study period piano at National Conservatory in Paris with Patrick Cohen and at Sorbonne University with Edoardo Torbianelli, Piet Kuijken and Jeanne Roudet. He had also the opportunity to work with recognized musicians such as Malcolm Bilson, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Lonquich, Pierre Goy and Amandine Beyer.
His performances reflect the variety of his musical interests. He regularly performs solo and chamber music recitals in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Recently he founded the Ensemble Hexaméron, a flexible group on period instruments, whose project is to revive in all its diversity the practice of chamber music with piano and the plural nature of its repertoire from the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century.
Very involved in musical education as well, he is piano and fortepiano Professor at Regional Conservatory of Paris and at Departmental Conservatory of Bobigny (Paris).
His research at the Orpheus Instituut focuses on the practice of the arrangement for accompanied piano in the Parisian salons of the first half of the nineteenth century.
You hear the expressive dynamic possibilities – the funeral march rumbles dully, the scherzo chimes cheerfully in the supple keys. In the finale, the hammering bass reveals other details.
De Volkskrant, 18-1-2024