Selected Recordings
1. Studio Recording
ANGELO VILLANI PLAYS DANTE's INFERNO
✭✭✭✭✭".....he
lifts Liszt's already searing rhetoric to another level, bearing down
with a ferocious intensity.....Finely recorded, this is glorious
thrown-back playing with a vengeance"---
Bryce Morrison,
The International Piano
Tokusen-ban
(Specially recommended album) "Played
as if the music gushes out of a
fountain... It is rare to encounter this level of performance"----
Tsutomu Nasuda, The Record Geijutsu
"It's a
breathtaking musical journey through Dante's
Inferno"––Jessica
Duchen
✭✭✭✭✭"It's
in the
quieter passages that Villani works his magic most effectively,
allowing the subtler shades of his innately Romantic sensibility to
glimmer through the darkness" ––Andy Gill,The Independent
1. Franz Liszt
Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (‘Dante Sonata’) from
Années de Pèlerinage II, S.161
2. Henry Purcell
Dido's Lament from the opera Dido and Aeneas (arr. by A
Villani)(Premiere Recording)
3. Hans von Bülow-Franz Liszt
Dante's Sonnet “Tanto gentile e tanto onesta” S.479 (arr. by A. Villani)
4. Franz Liszt
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (En Mode Hongrois) from Années de Pèlerinage III,
S.163
5. Richard Wagner-Hans von Bülow-Franz Liszt-Angelo Villani
Tristan Fantasy: Concert etude paraphrase on the opera Tristan und
Isolde (Premiere Recording)
Pf: Angelo Villani
Producer: Tomo Sawado
Sleeve Notes: Jessica Duchen
Recording Date: August 11th & 12th, 2015
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, UK
Piano: Fazioli (Tuned by Bruno Torrens)
Sonetto Classics (SONCLA0001)
2.
Public
recital
 
Villani
at rehearsal (photo: Zerlina
Mastin)
Villani at his comeback recital (photo: Tomo Sawado)
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Wagner/Von Bulow/Liszt/Villani: Reminiscences of
Tristan und Isolde (Concert
Paraphrase)
May 10th, 2013, St. James's
Piccadilly, London1
Liszt:
Ballade No. 2 in B minor
May
10th, 2013,
St. James's Piccadilly, London1
Debussy: Minstrels (Preludes, Book I)
May 10th,
2013, St. James's
Piccadilly, London1
Debussy: La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair Du Lune
(Preludes, Book II)
May
8th, 2013, St
John's Smith
Square, London2
Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book I)
May 8th,
2013, St John's Smith
Square, London2
Alkan:
Barcarolle in G Minor Op. 65
May 8th, 2013, St John's Smith Square, London2
Chopin: Nocturne in B flat minor Op. 9-1
May 8th, 2013, St John's Smith
Square, London2
Chopin: Nocturne in E flat Op. 9-2
May 8th, 2013, St John's Smith
Square, London2
Liszt:
Après
une Lecture de Dante (Dante Sonata)
Oct 6th, 2012, St. James's Piccadilly, London2
Liszt:
Petrarch Sonnet 123
Oct 6th, 2012, St. James's Piccadilly, London2
Brahms:
Rhapsody in G minor Op. 79-2
Oct 6th, 2012, St. James's Piccadilly, London2
Brahms:
Edward Ballade Op. 10-1
Oct 6th,
2012, St. James's Piccadilly, London2
3.
Private
performance for friends
Villani and his little friend,
Vanessa (photo: Parker Moss)
Liszt:
Les
Cloches de Geneve
11th
June, 2005,
Sala Givanni Paisiello, Italy1
Franck: Prelude Chorale et Fugue: : Prelude
Franck: Prelude Chorale et Fugue: : Chorale
Franck: Prelude Chorale et Fugue: : Fugue
Live play-through for
friends, Feb 2012, St. James's Piccadilly, London1
Liszt:
Après
une Lecture de Dante (Dante Sonata)
Quinteus
VII Lecture/Dinner, June 5th, 2013, The 1901 Club, London1
1Amature recording
2Recorded by Tony
Faulkner
Audio
files are provided by Michael Glover
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