Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a multifaceted individual, described as an airplane pilot, boat pilot, and ski champion.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, the pianist, gained a reputation as an unpredictable perfectionist with a select repertoire.
Claude Debussy's 'Children's Corner' is not a piece for children due to its difficulty and the frequent presence of objective distance and irony.
Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major was intended to be a concerto 'for' the piano, not 'against' it, similar to works by Mozart and Saint-Saëns.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, the pianist on this album, was a child prodigy who learned both piano and violin at age four.
Maurice Ravel, the composer of 'Gaspard de la nuit' and the Piano Concerto in G major, considered 'Gaspard' to be a caricature of Romanticism.
Maurice Ravel's 'Valses nobles et sentimentales' contained 'harmonic dynamite' that 'stupefied and upset listeners of the time'.
