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LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003)  PIANO WORKS - DECCA (476 194-4)

Petite Suite pour Piano (1947)

- Prelude
2:00

- Petit Air I
1:04

- Gavotte
1:11

- Musette
1:40

- Petit Air II
1:42

- Gigue
1:42

5 Variations (1953)
6:46

Sequenza IV for piano (1965)
11:14

Rounds (1967)
4:06

Six Encores pour Piano

- Brin (1990)
1:45

- Leaf (1990)
1:23

- Wasserklavier (1966)
1:29

- Erdenklavier (1969)
1.32

- Luftklavier (1985)
2:46

- Feuerklavier (1989)
3:04

TOT. 43:24

from CD:
Sequenza IV for Piano  (excerpt)
[ 1' 00 - 452 Kb ]




Andrea Bacchetti plays Berio
Valladolid (Spain), Auditorium Miguel Delibes
may 19th 2008

from Six Encores
Brin (1990) - Wasserklavier (1965)

[ 3' 28 ]
Booklet  Andrea Bacchetti: In memory of the Maestro   |  Carmelo Di Gennaro: The piano works of Luciano Berio
Reviews
Classical
Corriere della Sera - june 9th, 2004 (E. Gir.)
... the young, clever player, Andrea Bacchetti, who revives the 5 titles for piano solo: they are pieces which cover 50 years of activity of Ligurian composer ...
Revelation CD
La Prealpina - june 11th, 2004 (Giancarlo Angeleri)
... thanks to Andrea Bacchetti we discover Luciano Berio’s wonderful world ...
The Classical at the disco
Gazzetta di Parma - june 14th, 2004 (g.p.m.)
... an important CD, certified by the esteem Berio felt for Andrea Bacchetti ...
I Dischi del Sole
Il Sole 24ore - june 20th, 2004 (Carla Moreni)
... He still has a technique that is very agile, dry, and strong because of a lucid rationality ...
Homage to Luciano Berio
Il Secolo XIX - Genoa, june 22nd, 2004 (Andrea Casazza)
... He grew up as a player and today he comes back to the fore publishing a very difficult and beautiful CD ...
Classical notes
La Stampa - june 26th, 2004 (Giorgio Pestelli)
... out of any vanguard "manierismo", Bacchetti get to this music with a different and original sensitiveness ...
Classical CDs
L’espresso - july 1st, 2004 (Riccardo Lenzi)
... a talented soloist ...
CDs & Media
Il giornale della musica - nr.7, july 2004 (Giorgio Pugliaro)
... Bacchetti finds a way, that is certainly different but his own way, a credible, individual, poetic one ...
CD Reviews
Suonare - nr.97, july-august 2004 (Angelo Foletto)
... with rare love and patience ...
CD Reviews
Classic Voice - august 2004 (Gian Paolo Minardi)
... very sensitive in his following and at the same time translating into sound these always sharp experimentations ...
Listening
MF Milano Finanza - august 2004 (Andrea Milanesi)
... deep and favorite research, exploring each expressive shade ...
Meeting with Andrea Bacchetti
Suonare News - september 2004 (Filippo Michelangeli)
... contemporary music is an "elite", it is not for the mass ...
CD Reviews
Compact Disc Classics - september 2004 (Riccardo Risaliti)
... Bacchetti believes in this music, and this is a good fact, because otherwise he couldn’t play it ...
Musica’s Reviews
Musica - nr.160, october 2004 (Gianluigi Mattietti)
... a very rigorous anti-romantic but vivid performance ...
Classical music
ELLE - november 2004 (E.A.)
... They are a homage and they are his witness and memory.
CDs of the month
© Classica - november 2004
... Bacchetti’s sensitiveness and expertise put him in the foreground among the executors of present-day music ...
Classical music
Suono - november 2004 (Rocco Mancinelli)
... An approval to Andrea Bacchetti’s extraordinary cleverness ...
Compact choices
Amadeus - december 2004 (C.f.)
... this recording expresses, even at the first listening, all the attention and depth of the interpretative work ...
Classical
Il Giornale - may 27th, 2005 (Alberto Cantù)
... there is the whole Berio, his "phonic greed", the coexistence of tradition and experimentalism ... A landmark reading.
Amadeus Record Price 2005
Amadeus - june 2005
Finalist in "Contemporary" Section
Review
La Cronaca di Mantova - september 9th, 2005 (Roberto Chittolina)
... no freedom, immobility, that is to say coldness and impassibility in front of the musical line, that becomes modern since lacking of expression ...
Personalities
Musica & Scuola - nr.19, november 15th, 2005 (Laura Ruzza)
... he plays in a wonderful way, with a beautiful sound and with a musicality that is always controlled by intelligence ...
Classical music
Cittanuova - december 10th, 2005 (Mario Dal Bello)
... his "pianismo" is played on rationality, on the search for the infinite possibilities of the single sound ...
Novedades discograficas
Mundoclasico.com - 22/10/2007 (Roberto Diaz)
... una versión magistralmente interpretada de algunos de los fragmentos pianísticos más interesantes del siglo XX ...
Reseñas
CD Compact - n.221, julio/auguste 2008 (Emili Blasco)
... Bacchetti plasma con veracidad y pulcritud todos los minuciosos detalles propuestos en la música de Berio ...
Kolekcja melomana
Muzika21 (Polska) - nr.9 (98) october 2008 (Dariusz Mazurowski)
Discos critica de la A a la Z
Ritmo - diciembre 2008 (D.C.S.)
... tanto un extraordinario nivel técnico como una plena comprensión del universo de Berio ...
Reviews
American Record Guide - january/february 2009 (Sullivan)
... Bacchetti brings Berio’s unique world of colors and abstractions to vivid life ...
Reviews
MusicWab-International - may 2009 (Dominy Clements)
... Andrea Bacchetti’s playing is full of sparkle and lively, poetic energy ...
Reviews
The Record Geijutsu - April 2010
"REVIEWER’S RECOMMENDED OF THE MONTH"
Archive
Fanfare Magazine - issue 34:1 Sept/Oct 2010 (Art Lange)
... articulating the knotty phrases with exceptional clarity and transparency ...
Archive
Fanfare Magazine - issue 34:1 Sept/Oct 2010 (Colin Clarke)
... Bacchetti's articulation is superb in "Luftklavier", a textural miracle; ...


"CD of the Week"
june 9th, 2004

june 20th, 2004

nr.7, july 2004

CD CLASSICS
nr.41 - 9/2004

BORSA CLASSICA

nr.160 - october 2004

december 2004

22/10/2007

CD COMPACT
julio-auguste 2008

nr.9 (98) - october 2008

diciembre 2008

january/february 2009

may 2009

RECOMMENDED
april 2010

September / October 2010

 
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