Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonatas Maria Clementi

• Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832): Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3:
• 1 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3: I. Allegro con spirito 10:22
• 2 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3: II. Adagio e cantabile, con espressione 05:35
• 3 Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3: III. Presto 05:46
• Keyboard Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 25 No. 5:
• 4 Keyboard Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 25 No. 5: I. Piuttosto allegro con espressione 09:17
• 5 Keyboard Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 25 No. 5: II. Lento e patetico 04:14
• 6 Keyboard Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 25 No. 5: III. Presto 05:56
• Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34 No. 2:
• 7 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34 No. 2: I. Largo e sostenuto - Allegro con fuoco 14:47
• 8 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34 No. 2: II. Un poco adagio 07:04
• 9 Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Op. 34 No. 2: III. Finale. Molto allegro 09:05
• Total Runtime 01:12:06

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It is rather curious for a musician whose family name is Clementi to perform the works of a composer who lived two centuries ago and bears the same surname… could she be a descendant? Muzio Clementi’s music has long been underestimated, even though there have been great admirers of it among pianists, first and foremost Vladimir Horowitz, whose repertoire included the three Sonatas here recorded by Maria Clementi. They are works that are both spectacularly virtuosic and musically relevant, and the young pianist from Milan highlights this with the freshness of her truly innovative and quite original reading. Born in Milan, Maria studied with Piero Rattalino at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, graduating summa cum laude. Thereafter she continued studying at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col maestro” in Imola under Lazar Berman, Boris Petrushansky and Alexander Lonquich. A very young winner of many piano competitions, a first prize at the International Competition for Piano and Orchestra of Cantù in Italy, at the age of 16 a third position at the International Music Competition “G.B.Viotti” of Vercelli and she won the second prize at the 38th National Piano Competition “Premio Città di Treviso”.

Maria Clementi, piano

Maria Clementi
Born in Milan, Maria Clementi studied music under the guidance of Piero Rattalino at her home city’s “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory, graduating with full marks and honours. She went on to the Imola Piano Academy, where she furthered her studies with Lazar Berman, Boris Petrushansky and Alexander Lonquich, and where she had the chance to meet musicians such as Rosalyn Tureck and Tatiana Nikolaeva. She held her first recitals at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and the “Sala Grande” of the Milan Conservatory; she has performed at Brescia’s Teatro Grande and Bergamo’s Teatro Donizetti for the “Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli” Internationa

Piano Festival in the year of the Mozart Celebrations, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl. She has held concerts in Italy (Padua’s”C. Pollini” Auditorium, Vercelli’s Teatro Civico for the “Società del Quartetto”, Treviso’s Teatro Comunale, Sala Accademica of Rome’s “S. Cecilia” Conservatory, Pavia’s “G. Fraschini” Theatre, Mantua’s Teatro Bibiena, Auditorium of Verona’s “Dall’Abaco” Conservatory), Austria, Germany, France, Holland and Japan, and has been invited to perform for seasons such as those of Milan’s “Società dei concerti”, Bergamo’s “Società del Quartetto”, the Amiata Piano Festival, the Gioventù Musicale d’Italia, and Milan’s “Bösendorfer in collaborazione con Piano City”. The winner, at a very early age, of numerous national and international piano competitions, at the age of 16 she came third in the Vercelli “G. B. Viotti” International Competition and won second price at the 38th “Premio Città di Treviso” National Competition. In 1998 she was awarded first prize at the “Città di Cantù” International Competition for Piano and Orchestra.

As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as Milan’s “I Pomeriggi Musicali”, the RAI Symphony Orchestra, “Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto”, “Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna A. Toscanini”, Bacau Symphony Orchestra, Cluj Philharmonic Orchestra, and Milan’s “G. Verdi” Symphony Orchestra; under the baton of such conductors as Peter Maag, Gianandrea Noseda, Ovidiu Balan and Enrique Mazzola.

In 2015 she recorded a CD for Brilliant Classics dedicated to the works for piano, and violin and piano of Luigi Dallapiccola, which aroused the interest of the public and was favourably reviewed by the international critics. Since 2016 she has taught piano at the “Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G. Puccini” in Gallarate (near Varese, Italy). She is, moreover, a busy chamber performer, with appearances throughout Europe; her performances have been broadcast live on radio and television.

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