Clementi: Late Works for Pianoforte / Edoardo Torbianelli

The work of Muzio Clementi ought to be better known so that it might fully claim the recognition it deserves and so that musicians may draw closer to the musical style of his epoch. In the performance he offers us here, Edoardo Torbianelli takes an extremely convincing step in this direction.

Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)

Capriccio No. 4 in E minor, op. 47 Nr. 1
1 Adagio
2 Allegro agitato
3 Adagio sostenuto
4 Allegro vivace - Presto

Capriccio No. 5 in C major, op. 47 Nr. 2
5 Adagio sostenuto
6 Allegro con espressione e passione
7 Adagio cantabile
8 Allegro vivace

9 Preludio 1 alla Kozeluch

Sonata in E flat major, op. 41
10 Allegro ma con grazia
11 Adagio molto e con anima
12 Allegro molto vivace

From: "Twelve Monferrinas for the fortepiano", op. 49
13 VIII. Vivace assai (in E flat major)
14 IV. Allegretto con moto (in C major)
15 III. Allegretto con espressione (in E major)
16 IX. Allegro moderato (in G major)
17 XII. Allegretto moderato (in C major)

18 Fantasy with variations on "Au clair de la lune", op. 48

Edoardo Torbianelli, born in Trieste, 1970, took his first music lessons privately. In 1988, at the conservatoire in his home town, he was awarded a piano diploma and, in 1990, a harpsichord diploma. He continued his studies at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale dei Filarmonici di Torino, with Prof. Jean Fassina, at the Koninglijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium Antwerpen, with Profs. Robert Groslot, Jacques de Tiege and Jos van Immerseel, and at the Music Section of the Catholic University of Dutch Brabant, where he obtained diplomas in concert performance for piano, harpsichord, and chamber music. In addition, he has studied literature and linguistics at the university level. He has studied the history of performance techniques, especially in the Classical and Romantic periods, taking part in numerous seminars, analysing early-twentieth-century sound recordings, and carrying out intensive research in the field of treatises on historical performance.


As a laureate of international competitions (the Emmanuel Durlet International Piano Competition in 1993 and 1996; the Bruges Musica Antique Pianoforte Competition in 1995), Edoardo Torbianelli gives concerts that are a consistent success with the audiences and critics of numerous countries (Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France, Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, and Columbia), where he has performed at renowned venues.

He has been given the opportunity to play at concerts and to record CDs using historical instruments from the collections of the Deutsches Museum Munchen, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg, the Vleeshuis Museum in Antwerp, the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, the Palazzo Monsignani-Sassatelli di Imola, Accademia B. Cristofori in Florence, the Schloss Kremsegg in Kremsmunster, and the Historisches Museum in Basel.

He has made recordings for various radio and television stations (RAI 3, BRTN/Radio 3, BRT 2 TV, RTBF/Musique 3, Radio Slovenija, De Concertzender/Amsterdam, Bayerischer Rundfunk, DRS 2, RSREspace2), as well as recordings with Pierre-Andre Taillard on historical clarinet and Thomas Muller on natural horn, for the Harmonia Mundi France label, and recordings of the piano works of Muzio Clementi and Nils Wilhelm Gade for the PANCLASSICS label. His work has be enthusiastically received by international critics (the Disque du mois and Recommandation of Repertoire review, 5 Diapason and a Diapason d'or from Diapason review).

Between 1993 and 1998, Edoardo Torbianelli taught piano and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music in Antwerp, and since 1998 he has been a university teacher of piano and chamber music, as well as an assistant in Aesthetics and Performance of Romantic Piano Music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.