Credits:

*brasswind Ensemble* Classical

Description:

The performance time is over 150 minutes! Carlo Alessandro Landini (1954-), one of the greatest Italian composers of our time, graduated at the top of his class from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and studied composition under Olivier Messiaen and Ivo Marek at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied abroad. The "Piano Sonata No. 5" by Carlo Alessandro Landini (1954-), completed in 2015 after more than five years of work, is one of the longest piano sonatas in existence, clocking in at more than 150 minutes in total performance time. The Italian pianist Massimiliano D'Amerini will perform this monstrous work. This virtuoso pianist was acclaimed by the Suddeutsche Zeitung (South German newspaper) as "one of the three greatest Italian masters of our time, along with Michelangeli and Pollini. Tokyo M-Plus