The piano recital

'Concerto' is intended when one or more performers are performing. 'Recital', instead, is used to describe a concert with a single performer.

In fact, it was linked to the recitatives which included poems and monologues. In the 1800s, with the great Romantic pianists who... not only played but put on real shows in the form of an instrumental monologue... see Liszt and others.. this form was born, more centered on the performer as a single artist, without naturally overlooking great interpretive mastery.

In those years, the way of understanding the pianist changed radically, along with the way of making and listening to music.

Those were good times...

Well actually, in those years the pianist was truly being born... The virtuoso pianist, because Hanon came to mind??? Ahahahah

Great pianists of the era.. even regarding Thalberg, legends traveled about his tremolo.. in those years everything truly changed, but this also happened in the visual arts. As the centuries follow one another, all interest has centered not so much on the artistic product but on the artist... even compared to antiquity, I say pictorial production has become less serial and more specific and individual..

One would wonder whether we lost or gained..

On one hand we have lost (morality, technique, craft) but on the other hand we have gained (investigation, absence of constraints, new perspectives etc). In my opinion, the beauty lies in always making a summary of both things.