“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 minutes long. Among them are curiosities such as the Flirt Waltz (the longest work on the album at ten and a half minutes), an Arabian Reverie, a Yankee March, the Moon Waltz, and a whole series of dances.
It would be wrong to dismiss these miniatures as light, charming music, and Ingrid Carbone has recorded Leoncavallo’s piano works with a sure feeling for this music. Since the Italian pianist has wisely arranged the miniatures, the result is a well-controlled musical flow in which even less original pieces have their role to play as interludes. The program is also well recorded.
Norbert Tischer has reviewed Ingrid Carbone’s double CD “Ruggiero Leoncavallo: Pour Piano [Complete Works] on Pizzicato.
