Works for cello and piano: Busoni, Liszt a.o. -

Italian cellist Silvia Chiesa and Italian pianist Maurizio Baglini perform a wonderful recital of works by Ferruccio Busoni, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. On the program are Busoni‘s Kultaselle - 10 variations on a Finnish folksong; Liszt‘s Two Elegies for cello and piano; Chopin‘s Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3; and Rachmaninoff‘s Sonata in G minor for cello and piano, Op. 19. As an encore, the duo plays Leonard Bernstein‘s iconic composition ‘Tonight‘ from the musical West Side Story. This performance was recorded at Sala Verdi of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Italy, on November 4, 2024.