Pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples, Italy, but he had a French soul. A passionate champion of French composers, he recorded more than 50 albums, mostly of French repertoire, and along the way ...

Aldo Ciccolini at the piano. Back in the 1960s, composer Erik Satie’s limpid, odd, but wonderful solo piano music became known largely through the recordings of the late Aldo Ciccolini, who very ...

Italian-born French piano virtuoso Aldo Ciccolini died overnight at his home in the Paris area after a long illness, his manager said Sunday. He was 89. He had just returned home last week after ...

Aldo Ciccolini, a pianist who combined virtuosity with elegant reserve and over more than six decades of performing drew acclaim for his interpretations of underappreciated compositions and composers, ...

Erik Satie: Complete Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini, pianist; EMI). There aren`t many pianists today who would care to record Satie`s complete piano music, nor are there many who could do it justice.

Pianist Aldo Ciccolini broke new ground at the Naples Conservatory in 1947 when he became its youngest professor of piano. Ciccolini went on to a distinguished career, bagging top prizes at several ...

Franz Liszt had a habit of taking music by other composers and transforming it into virtuosic keyboard music. Liszt usually called these adaptations "paraphrases." We hear one of them played by Aldo ...

Renowned Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini performs works by Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Rachmaninoff and Erik Satie in this concert appearance Sought after by some of the worlds greatest orchestras ...

Pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples, but he had a French spirit, championing music by Erik Satie, Debussy and Ravel. He died overnight... Pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples, Italy, but he ...