PRESS REVIEWS 2010
... Having listened to Bacchetti so many times, we know him well as a splendid
interpreter of J.S. Bach, both in concert and in lucky score that won important prizes.
His meticulous and limpid technique tends to clear the most hard musical details, and so it
suits to all baroque authors who are connected to Bach or to Italian cembalists or pianists
of Eighteen Century. ...
Andrea Bacchetti for the Musical Evenings
www.corrierebit.com/music - February 24th, 2010 - Cesare Guzzardella
Andrea Bacchetti often comes to Milan for Musical Evenings concerts.
Yesterday at Dal Verme Theatre he performed pieces by J.S. Bach, his favourite composer. His
already conspicuous Bach discographic production witnesses his boundless interest for this author.
The pieces choice was excellent yesterday, for about an hour of music without pauses (the artist
personally asked to audience not to clap for not stopping the constant flow of magnificent and
deep music). The English Suite n.6, the Choral BWV 691 and 846-1, two splendid Chorals revisited
by Busoni Busoni "Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland" and "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr",
the Toccata in E min. BWV 914 and the French Suite n.5 had been interpreted with stylistic and
aesthetic rigor.
Bacchetti's sound is beautiful, austere, clear and defined by thin dynamic contrasts. The linear start and maybe not so contrasted of the first suite didn't exclude high interpretative preciousness, especially in final movements of the same piece, in the two Chorals by Busoni and in the delicious French Suite, that was accurate in every details. A great Bach for one of his greatest Italian interpreters.
There were three encores: Pulcinella by Villa Lobos, a Prelude by Rachmaninov and the very famous final of Bach according to Goldberg.
Bacchetti's sound is beautiful, austere, clear and defined by thin dynamic contrasts. The linear start and maybe not so contrasted of the first suite didn't exclude high interpretative preciousness, especially in final movements of the same piece, in the two Chorals by Busoni and in the delicious French Suite, that was accurate in every details. A great Bach for one of his greatest Italian interpreters.
There were three encores: Pulcinella by Villa Lobos, a Prelude by Rachmaninov and the very famous final of Bach according to Goldberg.
Andrea Bacchetti for the Musical Evenings
www.corrierebit.com/music - April 22nd, 2010 - Cesare Guzzardella
FULL ARTICLE (italian)
A soiree full of harmony and great romantic poetry in memory of Vanna Velo
Hüllweck, with a duo of exceptional skill. ... music that can accompany the singing and
the lyrics' sense without overhanging, even serving as comprehension of Andrea Bacchetti's
drift and controlled interpretation, which is accompanied by Marcello Nardis's voice, an
Italian tenor with a intelligent musicality, who can module his voice without forcing -
even in those raciest ones - and recreate a true idyllic and full of pathos atmosphere...
Andrea Bacchettis' piano design is always punctual, functional and exquisite balanced that
makes Nardis' vocality fly...
Remembering Love the Heine-Schumann Anthem
Il Giornale di Vicenza - March 6th, 2010 - Eva Purelli
... Marcello Nardis, with an excellent German pronunciation, after having
warmed his voice with "Liederkreis", began always more expressive, phrasing with
great taste, as the great pianist Andrea Bacchetti, light, effective also in solo parts
that end many Lieder. Long and repeated applauses ...
Emotions for a few close with Lieder by Schumann
Giornale di Brescia - March 13th, 2010 - Fulvia Conter
... Delicacy and refinement are the right attributes for the interpretation
proposed by the two musicians who executed these pieces in perfect tuning ...
Nardis and Bacchetti make Heine's poetry relive
BresciaOggi - March 17th, 2010 - N.Spa
... y Andrea Bacchetti, reconocido músico italiano considerado uno
de los mejores artistas de su generación, quien ha dado conciertos como solista
de piano en festivales europeos y de América Latina ...
Romanticismo puro
El Comercio, Lima (Perù) - March 22nd, 2010, redacción
TWO GREAT Genoese interpreters and a first township execution in a soiree
dedicated to captor and strongly communicative 20th Century by Maurice Ravel and Nino Rota...
Soloist in "Concerto Soirée", composed by Nino Rota in 1962 and never executed
before in Genoa, the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who really thanks his fellow citizen Guidarini
for having known and executed this piece for the first time in Nice in 2005 and then played
other times, also in America...
Guidarini and Bacchetti in "Concerto Soirée"
Il Secolo XIX - May 24th, 2010 - Giorgio De Martino
... Indulged by Guidarini's punctuality, Bacchetti, pianist with solid
technique and lucid interpretative maturity, ensured a clear, rich of nuances and verve
execution, with the right dose of irony in phrasing ... Hearty applauses.
Two Genoese musicians for the 20th Century
Il Giornale della Musica.it Reviews online - May 27th, 2010 - Roberto Iovino
... The first edition of Music in Tour/Spoleto 2010 closed in loud applauses;
this event was three days long and animated the local scene holding the best interpreters of
international classic music. The most important protagonist in the show of Caio Melisso Theatre,
yesterday evening, was Andrea Bacchetti, who performed a Prelude composed by Calvani, the Toccata
in E minor BWV 914 by Bach and the Goldberg Variations BWV 988. His routine astonished the audience
so much that there were five encores, which the artist gladly performed ...
Audience in raptures at Caio Melisso theatre about Maestro Bacchetti
www.tuttoggi.info - May 30th, 2010
... The new score by Andrea Bacchetti deserves five stars for the interpretative
maturity shown by this pianist - born in 1977 - who previously essayed the Bach keyboard universe
with a former record for Dynamic (a record that obtained many positive reports by specialized critic).
The sound - that is quite interesting and far from easier fascinations and emulations of a cymbal -
gives pure poetry in slow movements as in the faster ones. A good Bach score, without doubts
recommended to all Kantor's fans.
Reviews & interviews from world of disc
CD Classico - June, 2010
The magic touch, the elegance and the richness of his interpretations are the
natural and spontaneous expression of an innate gift, an absolute love for music. The Genoese
Andrea Bacchetti is one of the greatest Italian pianists, well-known in all the world.
He started when he was only a child, exciting the Milanese public with Mozart. Being considered
one of most important interpreters of Bach - with also his recent score Dynamic dedicated to Bach's
Toccatas - Bacchetti now essay the Venetian Benedetto Marcello, with a CD dedicated to the inedited
"Sonatas for keyboard" ...
Beauty of Sound
In Genoa & Liguria magazine - October, 2010
... Splendid performer in this CD, Bacchetti - a restless and unpredictable talent - interprets these pages with
seriousness and verve, showing musicality and touch sensibilty.
Six sonatas for "cimbalo"
L'Eco di Bergamo - October 12th, 2010
FULL ARTICLE (italian)
... a concert all dedicated to night by the violinist Domenico Nordio with the
pianist Andrea Bacchetti ... if the violin was mostly directed to the virtuosic writing, in his
prevalent role of "accompanist" the pianist Bacchetti had also the great merit of giving
an executive vest of notable refinement to parts that often tend to be unjustly neglected.
The bright darkness of Nordio and Bacchetti
L'Adige - October 25th, 2010
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