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ANDREA BACCHETTI, piano



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DECCA - MAY 2014

Recordings: August 2000 - August 2001
International Piano Academy
"MEETINGS WITH THE MASTER", Imola (Italy)

PIANO WORKS
 Petite Suite pour Piano (1947)
1)Prelude2:00
2)Petit Air I1:04
3)Gavotte1:11
4)Musette1:40
5)Petit Air II1:42
6)Gigue1:42
7)Five Variations (1953)6:46
8)Sequenza IV for piano (1965)11:14
9)Rounds (1967)4:06
 Six Encores pour Piano
10)Brin (1990)2:00
11)Leaf (1990)1:04
12)Wasserklavier (1966)1:11
13)Erdenklavier (1969)1:40
14)Luftklavier (1985)1:42
15)Feuerklavier (1989)1:42
TOT. 43:24
start L. Berio da Six Encores, Brin - Wasserklavier
Valladolid (Spain) - May 19th, 2008
VIDEO, 3'28 (12,6Mb)

BOOKLET

uk IN RIMEMBRANCE OF THE MAESTRO © Andrea Bacchetti, 2004
THE PIANO WORKS OF LUCIANO BERIO © Carmelo Di Gennaro, 2004
de IN RICORDO DEL MAESTRO © Andrea Bacchetti, 2004
L'OPERA PIANISTICA DI LUCIANO BERIO © Carmelo Di Gennaro, 2004

REVIEWS

June 9th, 2004

min Corriere della Sera - Classical
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 ... (E. Gir.)

June 11th, 2004

min La Prealpina - Revelation CD
.... thanks to Andrea Bacchetti we discover Luciano Berio's wonderful world ... (Giancarlo Angeleri)

June 14th, 2004

min Gazzetta di Parma - The Classical at the disco
.... an important CD, certified by the esteem Berio felt for Andrea Bacchetti ... (g.p.m.)

June 20th, 2004

min Il Sole 24ore - The Cds of the "Il Sole"
.... He still has a technique that is very agile, dry, and strong because of a lucid rationality ... (Carla Moreni)

June 22nd, 2004

min Il Secolo XIX - Homage to Luciano Berio
... He grew up as a player and today he comes back to the fore publishing a very difficult and beautiful CD ... (Andrea Casazza)

June 26th, 2004

min La Stampa - Classical notes
... out of any vanguard "mannerism", Bacchetti get to this music with a different and original sensitiveness ... (Giorgio Pestelli)

July 2004

min The Music Journal - CDs & Media
... Bacchetti finds a way, that is certainly different but his own way, a credible, individual, poetic one ...
(Giorgio Pugliaro)

July 1st, 2004

min L'espresso - Classical CDs
... a talented soloist ... (Riccardo Lenzi)

August 2004

min www.suonare.it - CDs Reviews

... with rare love and patience ...
(Angelo Foletto)

August 2004

min Classic Voice - CDs Reviews
... very sensitive in his following and at the same time translating into sound these always sharp experimentations ... (Gian Paolo Minardi)

August 2004

min MF Milano Finanza - Listening
... deep and favorite research, exploring each expressive shade ... (Andrea Milanesi)

September 2004

min Suonare News - Interview
... «contemporary music is an "elite", it is not for the mass» ...
(Filippo Michelangeli)

September 2004

min Compact Disc Classics - CDs Reviews
... Bacchetti believes in this music,
and this is a good fact, because otherwise
he couldn't play it ...
(Riccardo Risaliti)

September 2004

min Musica - Musica's reviews
... a rigorous, anti-romantic but vivid interpretation ... a perfect harmony with the language of Berio ...
(Riccardo Risaliti)

November 2004

min ELLE - Classica music
... They are a homage and they are his witness and memory ... (E.A.)

November 2004

min © Classica - CDs of the month
... Bacchetti's sensitiveness and expertise put him in the foreground among the executors of present-day music. (newsroom)

November 2004

min Suono - Classical Music
... An approval to Andrea Bacchetti's extraordinary cleverness ... (Rocco Mancinelli)

December 2004

min Amadeus - Compact choices
... this recording expresses, even at the first listening, all the attention and depth of the interpretative work ... (C.F.)

May 27th, 2005

min Il Giornale - Classical
... there is the whole Berio, his "phonic greed", the coexistence of tradition and experimentalism ... A landmark reading ... (Alberto Cantù)

June 2005

min Amadeus
Finalist in "Contemporary" Section

September 9th, 2005

min La Cronaca di Mantova - Review
... no freedom, "immobility", that is to say coldness and impassibility in front of the musical line, that becomes modern since lacking of expression ...
(Roberto Chittolina)

November 15th, 2005

min Musica & Scuola - Personalities
... he plays in a wonderful way, with a beautiful sound and with a musicality that is always controlled by intelligence ... (Laura Ruzza)

December 10th, 2005

min Cittanuova - Classical Music
... his "pianism" is played on rationality, on the search for the infinite possibilities of the single sound ...
(Mario Dal Bello)

22 de Octubre 2007

min www.mundoclasico.com - Novedades discograficas
... una versión magistralmente interpretada de algunos de los fragmentos pianísticos más interesantes del siglo XX ... (Roberto Diaz)

Auguste 2008

min CD Compact - Reseñas
... Bacchetti plasma con veracidad y pulcritud todos
los minuciosos detalles propuestos en la música de Berio ... (Emili Blasco)

October 2008

min Muzyka21 (Polska) n.9 (98) - Kolekcja melomana

(Dariusz Mazurowski)

Diciembre 2008

min Ritmo - Discos critica de la A a la Z
... tanto un extraordinario nivel técnico como una plena comprensión del universo de Berio ...
(D.C.S.)

February 2009

min American Record Guide - Reviews
... Bacchetti brings Berio's unique world of colors and abstractions to vivid life ...
(Sullivan)

May 2009

min www.musicweb-international.com - Reviews
... Andrea Bacchetti's playing is full of sparkle and lively, poetic energy ...
(Dominy Clements)

April 2010

min The Record Geijutsu - Reviews

RECOMMENDED

October 2010

min Fanfare Magazine - Archive
... articulating the knotty phrases with exceptional clarity and transparency ...
(Art Lange)

October 2010

min Fanfare Magazine - Archive
... Bacchetti's articulation is superb in "Luftklavier", a textural miracle; ...
(Colin Clarke)