Alfonso Soldano to Record Piano “Metamorphoses”

Posted by Divine Art Recordings Group on
 26 October, 2020

Divine Art is to produce a new album of piano works performed by young Italian star Alfonso Soldano. Titled ‘’Metamorphoses” the programme includes piano transcriptions, some well-known and some receiving the first recording, including Soldano’s own set of 15 Romances, Books 1-3, after Rachmaninov songs. The recording is due to be made in Italy in the spring of 2021 though due to new lockdown restrictions this does remain subject to final confirmation.

This will be Soldano’s fourth recording for Divine Art. He was a favourite student of Aldo Ciccolini (and now is Artistic Director of the Aldo Ciccolini European Arts Academy Foundation based in Trani, Italy). He has won many competitions and has been widely praised for his virtuosity and deep insight into music and has widely toured throughout Europe.   His mentor Ciccolini praised him: “Alfonso Soldano : a huge great promise for the piano, supported by outstanding instrumental abilities as well a musical sensitivity absolutely out of the ordinary. Alfonso Soldano was born in Puglia, South Italy: and therefore belongs to a land which is, and has always been a breeding ground for top class artists. Congratulations with all my heart!” – Aldo Ciccolini

His Romances, based on Rachmaninov Songs, are published by MusePress in Japan and among many other projects is continuing to produce song transcriptions for solo piano. He is also an author, having written the first biography of Sergei Bortkiewicz (Florestano Edizioni) and has three more recordings in preparation for release over the next two years including the complete piano music of Alexander Scriabin.

Metamorphoses (DDA25215)

  • 15 Romances after songs by Rachmaninov (arr. Soldano)
  • Debussy: Prelude from L’enfant prodigue (arr. Soldano)
  • Pabst: Concert Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty (new edition by Soldano)
  • Debussy: Fêtes (arr. Soldano)
  • Franck: Prélude, Fugue et Variations (arr. Bauer)
  • Wagner : Isolde‘s Liebestod (arr. Liszt)

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