Libetta plays Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (CD)

The dean of piano critics, Harold Schonberg, hailed Libetta as "an important pianist" who is "the master of of every period or style represented... [He makes] the pieces sing." In a profile [2003] of the Miami International Piano Festival, Matthew Gurewitsch of The New York Times described Francesco Libetta as "remarkable... a poet-aristocrat of the keyboard with the profile and carriage of a Renaissance prince."
[2003, Stereo, 68 minutes]

Beethoven
Variations (33) for Piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op. 120 ("Diabelli Variations")
Variations (6) for Piano in F major on an Original Theme, Op. 34

Francesco Libetta, piano