Disma Fumagalli 1826-93) Piano Concerto

[Alan Howe]

Posted elsewhere and moved here:

Yes, this is a charming piece. Thank you so much for uploading it. Can you tell us the provenance of the performance/recording? A live broadcast, I presume. Fumagalli wrote a number of pieces for the left hand alone, but no LH piano concerto (as far as I know).

[motiaan]

Hi,

the correct prename is Disma, without ending 's'

Unfortunately, the youtube link does not offer much information: Orazio Scortino is the pianist and conductor, recorded at "Teatro alla Scala", Milano. On Scortino's homepage one can conclude that it is a recording from 2011, his debut there. If so, the orchestra was "i Cameristi della Scala".

[Alan Howe]

Thanks: duly amended.

[semloh]

Posted elsewhere and moved here:

Yes, this is a charming piece. Thank you so much for uploading it.  ... 

Yes, hear, hear. I had never heard of Fumagalli before now, and this is a very pleasant surprise. Thank you. 

[thalbergmad]

His brother Adolfo is perhaps marginally better known amongst pianists interested in the lesser known romantics.

He wrote some pretty spectacular operatic transcriptions in a Lisztian/Thalbergian vein, much of which is beyond the reach of 3rd rate hacks such as me.

Thal

[eschiss1]

Brothers Carlo, Luca and Polibio were also composers. Some organ works by Polibio Fumagalli (1830-1900) are at IMSLP. Is there a left-paren missing in the subject?

(5 works- some operatic fantasies, a "Studio Trascendentale", after Moise for piano left hand, etc. ...- and an arrangement (of the overture of Benvenuto Cellini, for piano solo) by Adolfo Fumagalli are also uploaded there.)

[Gareth Vaughan]

I must apologise. When I said that Fumagalli wrote a number of piano pieces for the LH only, it was Adolfo I was thinking of, not Disma.