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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Ravel: Piano Works - Compared Érard and Steinway & Sons
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 9 Oct 2012
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Rossini: L'album pour les enfants adolescents: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 8 Sep 1998
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Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Arabeske & Gesänge der Frühe
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 14 Apr 2009
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Schumann & Dvořák: Piano Concertos
Paolo Giacometti, Michel Tilkin, Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 8 Oct 2002
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Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, Op. 160, D. 802: I. Introduction, Andante
Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti
Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 13 Jan 2023
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Concertos pour piano
Paolo Giacometti, Rotterdam Young Philharmonic & Arie van Beek
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 1 Apr 2006
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Schumann: Humoreske in B Flat Major Opus 20, Toccata in C Major Opus 7 & Phantasiestücke Opus 12
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Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42 & 4 Impromptus, Op. 142
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Aug 1997
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Rossini: Un petit train de plaisir: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Jan 2000
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Rossini: L'album pour les enfants dégourdis: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 2:
Classical - Released by Channel Classics on 1 Jan 1998
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Camerata Cassovia, Virginio Pavarana, Paolo Giacometti
Classical - Released by Piros - Send on 20 Jun 2011
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2
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Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 29 Sep 2020
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Paolo Giacometti, Rotterdam Young Philharmonic, Arie van Beek
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on 21 Sep 2020
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Felix Mendelssohn - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fingal's Cave / Piano Concerto N. 3
Classical - Released by Azzurra Music on 1 Apr 1999
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Piano Quintet C Major Sz. 23 - IV. Poco a poco più vivace. Vivace molto
Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Chamber Music - Released by Evil Penguin Classic on 10 May 2024
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