Ingrid Carbone plays these pieces competently and cleanly with little extrovert passion and for the most part this is effective – these are rarely works of great passions – but I would have liked a bit more vim in the more extrovert works such as the Yankee...

Artistic judgement 4,5/5 Technical judgement 4,5/5 Ruggiero Leoncavallo and the piano: a sound diary “When a composer is remembered in time and by history because of just one of his works, and this often happens, that work inevitably becomes a double-edged sword: on...

“Ingrid Carbone has recorded Leoncavallo’s piano works with a sure feeling for this music” Ingrid Carbone has recorded all the piano pieces by Ruggero Leoncavallo, who is best known for his opera I Pagliacci. The 36 pieces are mostly between one and a half and five...

“These piano pieces [by Leoncavallo] […] are definitely worth listening to carefully, […] played in a technically flawless and committed manner by Ingrid Carbone.” In our experience, Italian opera composers are best known because they . composed operas. And then also...

“A rare Ruggiero Leoncavallo at the piano by Ingrid Carbone” Few know the piano music of the Neapolitan composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), famous for his opera Pagliacci, much less for his song Mattinata. The thirty-six piano pieces interpreted with grace,...