Piano Solo: The Complete Concert in Germany

Personnel: Michel Petrucciani (piano).Audio Remixer: René Ameline .Liner Note Authors: Bernard Benguigui; Hélène Dreyfus.Recording information: Alte Opera, Frankfurt, Germany (02/27/1997).Photographers: Frédéric Reglain; Jean Ber.Arranger: Michel Petrucciani.A lot of people first became aware of French pianist Michel Petrucciani through his work with Charles Lloyd in the early '80s. Standing barely three feet tall, he lived with complications from glass-bone disease, a painful, genetically transmitted condition known to medical science as osteogenesis imperfecta. While growing up, Petrucciani suffered hundreds of bone fractures, and throughout his meteoric career he sometimes broke fingers during performance. Extraordinarily gifted and restlessly active in spite of it all, he continued to perform and record like a whirlwind before succumbing to a pulmonary ailment at the age of 36 in January 1999. Petrucciani appeared before the public as a soloist at the Alte Oper Concert Hall in Fran