Paolo Giacometti
Pianist Paolo Giacometti has a large recording catalog featuring both modern-instrument and period-instrument performances. He has recorded the complete piano music of Rossini as well as other less-often-played repertory.
Giacometti was born in Milan, Italy, in 1970. He lived in the Netherlands from childhood and took up the piano early. At nine, he began lessons at the Joke Hilversum Music School, studying with Joke Dekker-Vroons. Giacometti went on to the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, studying with Jan Wijn. While he was there, he took second prize at the International Brahms Competition in Hamburg, Germany. He graduated with highest honors in 1995, also winning first prize that year at the Postbank Sweelinck Competition in Amsterdam. The following year saw the release of Giacometti's first two albums, both featuring cellist Pieter Wispelwey; one included the Arpeggione Sonata of Schubert, the other cello-and-piano works by Max Reger. Those albums appeared on the Channel Classics label, with which Giacometti remained associated as of the early 2020s. His first solo release, The Russian Touch: Romantic Piano Music from Russia, followed in 1997 on the Columns Classics label.
In 1998, Giacometti returned to Channel Classics and released the album Rossini: L'album pour les enfants adolescents. That became the first in an acclaimed series of releases covering the complete piano music of Rossini; the series ran through the year 2007, and its third volume won the Edison Classical Music Award in 2001. Giacometti also plays and records more common piano repertory from Mozart to Ravel. He has appeared at major halls, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Seoul Arts Center. In addition to solo work, Giacometti has continued to play and record chamber music with Wispelwey and various other musicians, including violinists Janine Jansen and Viktoria Mullova and oboist Bart Schneemann. His recordings include 2013's Compared, Vol. 1: Erard vs. Steinway - Ravel. In addition to Channel Classics, Giacometti has recorded for BIS, Onyx, and Evil Penguin, among other labels; on the latter label, he joined Wispelwey in 2023 for the album Schubert: In Memoriam I. By that time, his catalog comprised some 40 items, including music by such unusual composers as Anton Eberl.
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In Memoriam I
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 3 Feb 2023
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Schubert & Brahms: The Complete Duos (Vol. 2) - Trockne Blumen
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Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 27 Nov 2015
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Brahms & Schubert : The Complete Duos / Rondo (IV)
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Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 9 Feb 2018
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Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Thomas Oliemans, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 13 Sep 2019
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Eberl: Piano Concertos (Paolo Giacometti - Riko Fukuda)
Paolo Giacometti, Riko Fukuda, Orchester der Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2011
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Eberl: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Sonatas for Piano 4 Hands
Paolo Giacometti, Riko Fukuda, Orchester der Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Classical - Released by CPO on 4 May 2018
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F. Schubert & J. Brahms: The Complete Duos - Coda
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 3 May 2019
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Schubert: Sonata D.574 - Brahms: Sonatas Op. 99 & 100
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 4 Nov 2016
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Rossini: Album de château: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 7
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 14 Nov 2006
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Schubert & Brahms: The Complete Duos (Vol. 1) - Phantasie
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Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 20 Apr 2015
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Mendelssohn & Chopin: Cello Sonatas
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Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on 20 Sep 2011
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Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata & 3 Sonatinas, Op. 137
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Oct 1996
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Rossini: Quatre hors d'oeuvres, quatre mendiants: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 8
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 12 Jun 2007
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Mozart: Quartets KV370 & KV421 - Sonata KV377
Bart Schneemann, Paolo Giacometti, Rombouts Quartet
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 13 Feb 2007
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Schubert: Music for Violin, Vol. 2
Ariadne Daskalakis, Paolo Giacometti
Chamber Music - Released by BIS on 4 Dec 2020
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Rossini: Bolero Tartare: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 6
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 13 Dec 2005
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Schubert: Fantasy in C, Duo in A, Arpeggione Sonata
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on 26 Oct 2009
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Rossini: Quelques riens pour album: Complete Works For Piano, Vol. 4
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 8 Jul 2003
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Widerkehr: The Duosonatas
Bart Schneemann, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 14 Sep 2004
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Rossini: Gymnastique d'Écartement: Complete works for Piano Vol. 5
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 13 Jul 2004
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Schumann: Dichterliebe Op. 48, 6 Gesänge Op. 89 & 6 Lieder und Requiem Op. 90 - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Thomas Oliemans, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 5 Feb 2016
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