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ANGELO VILLANI plays DANTE's INFERNO (Soncla001)

✭✭✭✭✭ :".....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 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

This unique piano album was produced in 2015 to coincide with the 750th Anniversary of Dante's birth. The album's concept is intended to invoke the multi faceted world of Dante that has over time given inspiration to various musical works related to mythical characters---Tristan, Dido, Virgil, Beatrice, Paolo, and Francesca da Rimini--- all appearing within the "Inferno" of Dante's Divine Comedy.

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
Digital Mastering: Andrew J Holdsworth
Sleeve Note: Jessica Duchen
PR: Nicky Thomas Media Consultancy
Recording Date: August 11th & 12th, 2015
Recording Venue: The Menuhin Hall, UK
Piano: Fazioli (Tuned by Bruno Torrens)