PRESS REVIEWS 2016
A grand finale for the music festival "Concerts at Borgo dei Fieschi",
that brought a series of high-quality musical events in some of the architectural jewels between
Cogorno Alta and Borgo dei Fieschi ... to close the 2015-2016 edition there will be a great piano
virtuoso - Andrea Bacchetti, a top-level pianist - as protagonist of the final concert. And, if
the keyboard is in the hands of a Maestro, the concert program is dedicated to two authentic
music all-time greats: Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ... today event is among
the not to be missed dates. ...
Borgo dei Fieschi, here comes Bacchetti
Il Secolo XIX - January 6th, 2016 - (Paola Pastorelli)
... it will be inaugurated the cycle "Concerts in an art chest" presented by
the Philharmonic Association "Eliodoro Sollima" ..."Bach on piano" is the usual
issue that we propose to Bacchetti, who will play then pages by Mozart and Schubert, Chopin and Rossini.
«We don't turn our nose up at Baroque music on a historic instrument, but modern piano, that is the arrival point for keyboard instruments, has certainly wider resources». ...
«We don't turn our nose up at Baroque music on a historic instrument, but modern piano, that is the arrival point for keyboard instruments, has certainly wider resources». ...
Bacchetti's piano today in Palermo - On schedule, musics by Bach
Giornale di Sicilia - January 31st, 2016 (Sara Patera)
... Andrea Bacchetti's pedigree as a Bach performer has long preceded him, and the opportunity
to enrich our collections with a set of these concerti is a welcome one. The debate about use of piano
instead of harpsichord rumbles on, but as ever the sonorities here will inevitably be that mash-up of
modern and antique which may or may not bother you. ...
In general this will certainly be a must-have for fans of Andrea Bacchetti, who are unlikely to be disappointed. I wouldn't personally choose it as an absolute top version if the orchestral playing were the defining factor; but where Bacchetti and his team lose a little in weight of sound they gain much in transparency, so it will be up to personal taste as to which you prefer. This can be had more distinctively elsewhere, but these are works for which the keyboard is central and so the overall impression is fine indeed. These are refreshing performances that very much avoid the darker "fatness" you can find with some piano recordings. Bacchetti is a strong enough player to carry six concertos at a sitting and still leave you wanting more.
In general this will certainly be a must-have for fans of Andrea Bacchetti, who are unlikely to be disappointed. I wouldn't personally choose it as an absolute top version if the orchestral playing were the defining factor; but where Bacchetti and his team lose a little in weight of sound they gain much in transparency, so it will be up to personal taste as to which you prefer. This can be had more distinctively elsewhere, but these are works for which the keyboard is central and so the overall impression is fine indeed. These are refreshing performances that very much avoid the darker "fatness" you can find with some piano recordings. Bacchetti is a strong enough player to carry six concertos at a sitting and still leave you wanting more.
Classical Review
www.musicweb-international.com - February, 2016 (Dominy Clements)
Andrea Bacchetti is here double acting as piano soloist and conductor: the proposal
is the recording of the Keyboard Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach ... Six magnificent concertos
for keyboard and orchestra, accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra strings, a record
that goes to join the other quality Bach struggles by Bacchetti for Sony, from the French Suites
to the Toccatas.
Bach's Art in Bacchetti's fingers
Brescia Oggi - February 2nd, 2016 (Luigi Fertonani)
La suite (una sucesión de danzas estilizadas) es una de las formas musicales que mejor
sintetiza la esencia de la música instrumental barroca. De origen francés, este género alcanzará una
de sus cimas con Johann Sebastian Bach, a quien se deben varias de las mejores colecciones de todos
los tiempos: las Suites Inglesas (llamadas así porque podrían haber sido dirigidas a un mecenas inglés),
las Suites Francesas (que reciben este sobrenombre para distinguirlas de las inglesas) y las Suites
para violonchelo solo, cuyo redescubrimiento para el gran público está ligado al nombre de Pau Casals.
Una selección de estas obras sonará al clave, al piano y al violonchelo en este ciclo de cuatro conciertos matutinos protagonizados por Andrea Bacchetti, piano; Céline Frisch, clave; Lluís Claret, violonchelo y Christine Schornsheim, clave (6, 13, 20 y 27 febrero).
Una selección de estas obras sonará al clave, al piano y al violonchelo en este ciclo de cuatro conciertos matutinos protagonizados por Andrea Bacchetti, piano; Céline Frisch, clave; Lluís Claret, violonchelo y Christine Schornsheim, clave (6, 13, 20 y 27 febrero).
Los sábados con Bach en la Fundación Juan March
www.ForumClásico.es - febrero de 2016 (redacción)
... El regreso de Bacchetti a Madrid ha vuelto a justificar el porqué de la raíz de su
apellido. Este músico ha nacido para tocar a Bach, su entendimiento con el genio es tal, que la música
fluye con naturalidad, construida sobre la elegancia y la inteligencia, estudiada profundamente en cada
esquina y cada giro, ofreciendo el justo adorno y la exacta precisión de toque. Con el paso de los años
su Bach, que sigue teniendo una total claridad de voces, ha evolucionado más cálidamente, dejando atrás
cierta sequedad y un recuerdo lejano a Glenn Gould. Sin repeticiones algunas, ofreció sin interrupción
de aplausos las Suites inglesas ns. 2 y 5, las Francesas ns. 1, 2 y 5 y el Concierto Italiano, un auto
homenaje a su nacionalidad vinculada con su compositor, que el pianista no deja de incluir en sus
conciertos. La música no cesaba de fluir, una y otra vez pasaba de una danza a otra, el aire cambiaba
pero la intensidad no decaía, a pesar que el auditorio probablemente perdiera el hilo sin el aplauso que
guía e indica el fin de una obra. Memorable la Allemande y Bourrée de la Suite Francesa n. 5, la Sarabande
de la Inglesa n. 2, el sutil rubato en el Gigue de ésta o el celestial legato en la Suite francesa n. 1
(Allemande), de profunda emoción. El espíritu infantil que vive en este pequeño cuerpo de gran corazón,
regaló nada menos que la Sonata en si bemol mayor KV 333 de Mozart, ¡completa!, que, sencillamente, ha
sido una de las mejor interpretadas que he escuchado en mi vida. Un prodigio.
Actualidad - Hemos escuchado a ... Bach-chetti
Ritmo - n. 894, Marzo 2016 (Gonzalo Pérez Chamorro)
Peut-on encore jouer et enregistrer Bach au piano et avec des cordes métalliques ? Oui,
répond Andrea Bacchetti, qui, après avoir écumé au disque l'oeuvre pour clavier seul, s'essaye à la
forme concertante. ... D'un jeu fin, agile et alerte, qui ose se parer d'ornements originaux, Andrea
Bacchetti déroule sa grande connaissance de l'oeuvre de Bach. Il parvient à rappeler la délicatesse
du clavecin, tout en évitant les effets pianistiques qui siéraient mal à la partition.
L'auditeur avide de lecture devra se satisfaire d'un court livret en anglais et en italien, mais l'amateur de Bach au piano trouvera finalement son compte avec cet enregistrement.
L'auditeur avide de lecture devra se satisfaire d'un court livret en anglais et en italien, mais l'amateur de Bach au piano trouvera finalement son compte avec cet enregistrement.
Andrea Bacchetti, Bach toujours
www.resmusica.com - 9 février 2016 (Stéphane Reecht)
The festival «Harmonies of Memory» continues and tonight presents the concert
«From classicism to romanticism» of the pianist Andrea Bacchetti ... affirmed musician, who
is entering in the height of his artistic maturity ...
Savigliano welcomes pianist Bacchetti
La Stampa - February 19th, 2016 (P.B.)
"A piano and a voice". Not an ordinary pianist, but rather the great Andrea
Bacchetti, a classic pianist for his education but also versatile and histrionic, who has been able
even to bring classical music in TV at the "Chiambretti Night Show". And what can we say
about the voice the title refers? It's not a common voice, but "the" voice; Antonella Ruggiero,
a soprano extension, who was able to range in all music genres, from Matia Bazar to sacred music,
passing through jazz and avant-garde experimental contaminations. The well-chosen meeting between these
two Ligurian international-level artists started off a tour of concerts that includes also a date in
Fiorenzuola, tomorrow night at 9 pm at Teatro Verdi ...
Limitless dialogues between voice and piano with Ruggiero and Bacchetti
Libertà Sette - February 19th, 2016 (Donata Meneghelli)
... For the third time, Bacchetti is back in Fiorenzuola: two years ago, he conquered his
audience with the concert My Bach, an excellent interpretation of the Goldberg Variations.
To the Baroque composer, the pianist dedicated a significative record production, included the Sony record
of the Concertos by Bach with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, that has been appreciated by the critics
all around the world. Last year then Bacchetti met jazz in a concert with the pianist Andrea Pozza. Tonight,
he will accompany the wonderful voice of Antonella Ruggiero, in a piano elaboration by Stefano Barzan,
composer and arranger, who has been collaborating with Ruggiero and other Italian music stars since years ...
«Music is not a matter of labels, it's versatile, as we two are»
Libertà - February 20th, 2016 (Donata Meneghelli)
After defining themselves an odd couple, Andrea Bacchetti and Antonella Ruggiero fascinated
the audience that crowded the town theatre with a great music soirée in the context of the 2015/2016 season.
And, indeed, apart from having Ligurian origins in common and being both great interpreters, there are more
differences than affinities between the two artists: Bacchetti, fine Bach interpreter, is a classicist,
while Ruggiero has always been a pop music exponent. Bacchetti is a bit too serious, while Ruggiero is
highly extroverted. Bacchetti is a symbol of stylistic purity, Ruggiero loves contaminating genres. Bacchetti
follows the rules, Ruggiero loves to break them. And we could continue. But this "odd couple" worked.
And it did also well, with Bacchetti's piano to fill half theatre up with sound, and the other half completed
by Ruggiero's extraordinary voice. In the end, the duo has been overwhelmed by applauses of the audience, that
would have like to hear other songs ...
Bacchetti and Ruggiero, magical harmonies
Libertà - February 22nd, 2016 (Mauro Bardelli)
FULL ARTICLE (Italian)
... "Musica&Musica" debuts with an exceptional concert, "The Musical Voyage
between Baroque and Romanticism", hat will have Andrea Bacchetti, piano, an internationally renowned musician,
with the magic flute of Giovanna Savino ... in their program we will listen to musics by J.S. Bach, F. Chopin
and C. Chaminade. ...
"Musica&Musica" begins the winter festival
Cuneo - February 16th, 2016 (c.s.)
Andrea Bacchetti, the «Chiambretti's pianist», enowned for his TV performances next
to the volcanic Piero, has the assignment to inaugurate the "Musica&Musica" ... festival on Sunday
... Chiambretti gave to Bacchetti a notoriety that goes beyond theaters and concert halls where the Genoese pianist
had his debut and where his classic talent grew up. Now, at the age of thirty-nine, he has behind himself a career
that would make many older musicians green with envy ...
"Musica&Musica" opens with Bacchetti
La Stampa - February 18th, 2016 (V.P.)
... Tonight, we are back at the Casella Auditorium and, always for MusicaNovi, the fourth
appointment will see as protagonists the flautist Giovanna Savino and the pianist Andrea Bacchetti in a program
ntitled "From Bach to Poulenc" ...
From Bach to Poulenc: flute and piano
Il Piccolo - March 11th, 2016 (newsroom)
... the duo Savino-Bacchetti is a tested, very harmonious team, able to offer great sensations ...
Flute and piano at "MusicaNovi 2016" in a soirée between Bach and Poulenc
La Stampa - March 11th, 2016 (G.FO.)
... Without feeling sacrilegious, we rediscovered Baroque music on piano. And who in turn, the
interpreters made themselves less craggy, less demonstrative, and freer to go along with the music's designs
rather than with the rules of an intransigent stylistic observance... Bacchetti does not surprise nor scandalize
us, at all. On the contrary, the smoothness in his touch, his less geometrical phrasings and the witty taste with
which the "Italian" whim of fast tempos is released work and convince.
Reviews
Suonare News - nr.226, April 2016 (Angelo Foletto)
FULL ARTICLE (Italian)
... Italy has found its Bach lover in the Genoese pianist Andrea Bacchetti ... former child prodigy,
he had no less than the composer Luciano Berio as mentor, but he found his milestone in Bach, an author whom he
practically lives in symbiosis with and he always plays. Very appreciated his records dedicated to this universal
composer ...
Bacchetti at the Manzoni
la Repubblica - TrovaRoma - April 7th-13th, 2016 (G.D'A.)
... Nowadays the thirty-eight years old Genoese artist reached a new stage in his discographical
journey dedicated to his beloved Bach ... The Concertos for keyboard BWV 1052-1056 and 1058 are extremely
cured pages, from any point of view, characterized by an extraordinary inventive richness and an unimpeachable
musical composition, that is solid in counterpoint structure and soft in melodic weave, and that Bacchetti gives
back to his listener with lightness of touch, measured rhythmic pressure, intelligence and interpretive sensibility.
With the naturalness of whom knows and experiences that language almost from his birth
Pleasures&Knowledge Music
Sette - Corriere della Sera - nr.15, April 15th, 2016 (Andrea Milanesi)
FULL ARTICLE (Italian)
Thin, skinny, small eyeglasses with a metal frame, when he appears onstage and reaches the piano
walking nervously, he has the same allure of a young engineer researcher. But once he is seated at his instrument,
in those few, endless moments in which he starts the mysterious dialogue that makes the player be in tune with
the author, everything changes. That is Andrea Bacchetti's portrait. ... With a program entirely dedicated to Bach,
the Friday concert at the Mozart Auditorium in Ivrea sees Bacchetti both as soloist and conductor of the Piemonte
Juvenile Symphony Orchestra ...
Bacchetti on piano with the allure of an engineer
La Stampa TorinoSette - April 29th / May 5th, 2016 (Giorgio Gervasoni)
... It seems to me that precisely in this capability to make Bach's poetry stand out, although
keeping stylistic rigour, there is the most remarkable characteristic of Bacchetti's interpretations: he is
always able to make the score breath, detaching very fast tempos too, with little agogic breaks, a well refined
phrasing, wise touches of pedal and a well-revealed dynamics, and to render the discourse speaking and revealing
all its interior richness, clarifying its topics and articulations with an intelligent courtesy that finds
perfect correspondence in the spirit of this highest "music thinker" ...
Bacchetti, dominant figure
il Risveglio Popolare - Mat 12th, 2016 (Carla Zanetti Occleppo)
... On piano, they become something different, and in this case, instead of imitating the harpsichord
(that is impossible, it is another instrument), in his interpretation the pianist has to create a credible sonority,
according to Bach's practice and style and lead the music game in these boundaries, without exceeding in solutions
that refer to more modern poetics (Romanticism, e.g.). These two CDs by Andrea Bacchetti, with the strings of the RAI
National Symphony Orchestra, demonstrate that it is possible: accustomed to Bach's music since years, the Genoese
pianist brought a technique and a timbre - therefore a style - to fruition which in this recording reveal themselves
ideal for these pages, to which the excellent instruments of Turin collaborate with property and lightness ...
The 5-star CDs of the month
Musica - nr. 276, May 2016 (Riccardo Risaliti)
... Una vez más hemos de hacer notar su adecuación al estilo de las obras que toca en todo
momento, algo que suele suceder a este pianista en cada repertorio que aborda. Por otra parte, sus versiones
no son una aportación más (sin personalidad) a la discografía de estas partituras, pues Bacchetti ofrece una
visión muy personal de ellas, relacionándolas con el mundo del teclado italiano que también se desarrollaba a
la par que los de Bach y Haendel por aquellos años. Para esto se apoya en una orquesta puramente italiana que
no hace sino acentuar las intenciones del pianista, ofreciendo unos resultados muy atractivos en el plano
interpretativo a la vez que rigurosos. Bacchetti ya había situado hace tiempo su nombre junto al de los grandes
de la interpretación de Bach al piano. Con esta nueva grabación ofrece una alternativa a las propuestas de Schiff
(Decca) y Perahia (Sony), las dos referencias en este repertorio. Muy recomendable por tanto.
Ritmo Parade - Los mejores discos del mes
Forum Clasico - n. 896, Mayo 2016 (Rafael-Juan Poveda Jabonero)
«sold out» ince weeks, Teatro Sociale will host Uto Ughi, the great violinist, on
Friday at 8.30 pm, in a appointment organized by "Contato del Canavese" Association. Used to introduce
and comment the pieces he plays in his concerts, especially when he is in front of a young audience, he describes
the soirée program, entitled "The Romantic Violin". To accompany him there will be Andrea Bacchetti:
«I occasionally work with him, but I always do it with pleasure. He is a young pianist with great talent
and musicality».
Uto Ughi: "Music is part of our history and has to be preserved"
La Stampa, Biella - May 5th, 2016 (Simona Romagnoli)
Uto Ughi did not conserve his energies, paying back the audience that two nights ago filled
every order of seats of Teatro Sociale to listen to him. In addition to the scheduled pieces of his concert
«The Romantic Violin», he introduced them, offering pills of music history. Always accompanied
by Andrea Bacchetti on piano, then he granted with pleasure and spontaneity two encores ...
At Teatro Sociale a double encore by Uto Ughi - sold out hall for the great violinist
La Stampa - May 8th, 2016 (newsroom)
Last night, in Sala Verdi, the Genoese pianist Andrea Bacchetti intelligently framed the program,
a music sheet that comprehended first Bach and then, after a very short pause of a few seconds, Mozart. Bacchetti
alternated three French Suites (n.5-2-1) and two English Suites (n.5-2) ending with the well-renown
Italian Concerto BWV 971 continuously, as they were a unique piece and without refrains. The overall result
was excellent. Considering this brilliant composer, the Genoese pianist is one of the highest Italian interpreters,
probably the best. His expressive clarity in melody, his balance of parts, his valid dynamics contrasts and the
self-confidence with which he plays perfectly internalized pieces took to a high aesthetic level performance. ...
Andrea Bacchetti at the Serate Musicali
corrierebit.com - May 10th, 2016 (Cesare Guzzardella)
... Antonella Ruggiero presents the concert that she will propose tonight at Rossini Theater, on
whose stage she will be with Andrea Bacchetti for the last date of the Civitanova Classic Piano Festival ...
"Civitanova Classic Piano Festival" ...
«In addition to some of my song I will propose also pieces by PFM, Duke Ellington, Haendel, De André ... then there will be a space all dedicated to Bacchetti, who will propose his own world: we have a very wide vision of music. He enters my world with arrangements that are close to classic music and I do the same with his, that is so rigorous and precise». ...
«In addition to some of my song I will propose also pieces by PFM, Duke Ellington, Haendel, De André ... then there will be a space all dedicated to Bacchetti, who will propose his own world: we have a very wide vision of music. He enters my world with arrangements that are close to classic music and I do the same with his, that is so rigorous and precise». ...
«My free singing marries classic music»
Il Resto del Carlino - May 12th, 2016 (Lorenzo Monachesi)
The charming and crystalline voice of Antonella Ruggiero enchanted her audience at Rossini
Theatre. A soirée of great charm for closing the Civitanova Classic Piano Festival. Ruggiero's class and
Andrea Bacchetti's elegance and skill on piano offered to the spectators of Civitanova an unforgettable and
intimate show. ...
Antonella Ruggiero enchants Rossini Theatre
cronachemaceratesi.it - May 13th, 2016 (newsroome)
Genoa - Great music arrives at Sori with a concert that has to be tasted note after note.
Tomorrow evening, May 21st, at 9 pm, in the suggestive interiors of the Sant'Erasmo Oratorio, there will
be onstage a performance by Andrea Bacchetti, the thirty-nine-years-old internationally renown pianist,
who is already author of the CD "The Scarlatti Restored Manuscript", winner of an ICMA
(International Classical Music Awards) 2014 "Baroque Instrumental" category. ...
Bach, Mozart and Chopin's Magic lands to Sori
Il Secolo XIX - May 20th, 2016 (Edoardo Meoli)
... Von Karajan, Magaloff and Berio. Three Maestros who, with a close relationship, will help him to lay solid
foundations and to become one of the most interesting international pianists, one of the best Bach interpreters,
playing a different, modern Bach who, with Bacchetti, puts together classic, historical rules and a peculiarly
original thinking ... but he is never satisfied, he always thinks to improve, to his continuous crescendo that
we can see his eyes ...
Bacchetti, a night at the Oratory
la Repubblica - May 21st, 2016 (Bettina Bush)
Here are two outstanding releases from this consistently fine artist, one of the more significant
pianists currently before the public specialising in 18th-century key - board music on the modern instrument - in
Bacchetti's case, a Fazioli. Hasse (slightly older contemporary of JS Bach) is a figure whose importance has only
recently come to be acknowledged - in which case, this impressive new CD will hopefully play a part. Much of this
music has been sourced and edited by Sgr Bacchetti himself, and is eminently worthwhile. Beautifully played and
very cleanly recorded. ...
Our recent recordings - Compact
Musical Opinion - nr.1508 July-September (Robert Matthew-Walker)
... The set of Bach solo keyboard concertos with orchestra is equally fine, and must be counted the
most recomm endable yet issued. Directing from the keyboard, Bacchetti is in complete command, and the excellent
Rome-based orchestra is on top form. The recording balance is uniformly first-rate and the result is an eminently
recommendable pair of CDs.
Our recent recordings - Compact
Musical Opinion - nr.1508 July-September (Robert Matthew-Walker)
... these are supremely enjoyable performances. Andrea Bacchetti has an ear for the bigger
picture. Bach's elaborate noodlings can sound laborious in some hands, but Bacchetti's lightness is a thing
to treasure. ... Bacchetti's tempi in this work sound ideal, the performance unfolding with clockwork precision
and plenty of deft humour. We're constantly wrongfooted, Bach constantly sending us off in unexpected directions.
... The outer movements of the three major key works sparkle, though the performances which really hit home are
Nos. 5 and 7. The former's elegant slow movement speaks with world-weary profundity, though Bacchetti regains
his mojo for a scintillating though unhurried "Presto". You probably already own and admire Perahia,
Gould and Schiff in these pieces, but Bacchetti is as good, and he's neatly accompanied by the strings of the
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. Bach has rarely sounded so approachable, and these performances are
very well recorded.
Classical music reviews, news & interviews
www.theartsdesk.com - July 30th, 2016 (Graham Rickson)
... Bacchetti's direction is clearly articulated and elegantly phrased. His textures are lucid
with restrained application of the sustaining pedal and his tempos are irreproachable. Bach intended the keyboard
part for harpsichord, yet we know that he had a lively and practical interest in the newly developing piano; in
his later harpsichord pieces he often achieves a pianistic continuity of sound. Bacchetti realises this aspect
of Bach's writing convincingly while never losing sight of the playful character of outer movements. Slow movements
fare comparably well where Bacchetti can express himself lyrically and with discreet ornaments. ...
Concerto
BBC Music Magazine - August, 2016 (Nicholas Anderson)
... the Municipality has the honour to host two internationally renowned artists who will make the marina of Camogli
even more suggestive with their music - played on two grand pianos. A music duel dedicated to improvisation, a repertoire
that goes from classical music to jazz, including Liszt and Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Mendelssohn ... the
concert will amaze for the incredible affinity and compatibility between two worlds of sounds that usually we think being far ...
Camogli. "Piano Ring": music challenge between Andrea Bacchetti and Michele Di Toro
www.levantenews.it - August 4th, 2016 (newsroom)
Camogli. Among the events that the Municipality proposed for this summer, tonight at 9.15 p.m. in Piazza Colombo, a
"Piano Ring": Andrea Bacchetti vs Michele Di Toro. A challenge on the keyboard, from classical to jazz, with
two internationally renowned artists. Bacchetti, one of the most original Bach interpreters, according to critics ...
Di Toro, from Sant'Eusanio del Sangro, graduated at the top of his class, honors and a special mention at the Conservatory
of Pescara, then he improved himself at the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot, in Paris.
Bacchetti and Di Toro - A challenge on the keyboard
Il Secolo XIX - August 10th, 2016 (Rossella Galeotti)
... in the center of the square, on the stage, only the two musicians and their two grand pianos. ... Andrea Bacchetti
and Michele Di Toro already played together in Milan, at the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato, a formula that works well
and that they are offering again: «An unusual but not unprecedented - Di Toro says - We want to give the message
of an absolute music, without limits nor barriers. I don't want to know what music Bacchetti is going to play. His rhythm
and melody will guide me, and I'd like to be free to improvise, without prejudices nor points of reference, in order to
create an unique show, on the spot, and that will be unrepeatable ... » ...
Pianisti sul ring
la Repubblica - August 10th, 2016 (Bettina Bush)
San Colombano. The conferment of the honorary San Colombano citizenship to Monsignor Corrado Sanguineti, bishop of Pavia,
and the award ceremony of the Tigullio Prize to the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, with a great concert: there will be great
artistic and diplomatic events at the new edition of the Expo Fontanabuona ... the thirty-nine-years-old pianist, who was
born in the backcountry of Recco and was already a music prodigy at the age of eleven, will play the audience of Calvari
in the occasion of his prizegiving, on Tuesday 30th August ...
The Expo Fontanabuona celebrates Sanguineti and Bacchetti this year
Il Secolo XIX - July 31st, 2016 (Simone Rosellini)
An internationally renowned pianist from Uscio, Andrea Bacchetti will receive the Tigullio Prize tonight, at the
"Lascito Cuneo" Building in Calvari ... and he will offer to his audience a concert, fifty minutes of
music starting from Bach (French Suite n.5) to Rossini (Tarantelle Pur Sang) passing through Mozart (Fantasia in
D minor, Rondo K485), Schubert (Four Impromptus, D. 935), Liszt (Consolation in D flat major) and Chopin (Nocturnes
op.9 and n.1 and n.2). ...
Expo in Calvari - Bacchetti plays
Il Secolo XIX - August 30th, 2016 (S.Ros.)
... Andrea Bacchetti, one of the most considered pianists in the world, told his story in the night of Tuesday August
30th receiving the Tigullio Prize 2016. To applaud him, but also to contend him, there were the two mayors of the
Valley of Time, Giuseppe Garbarino for Uscio (where the artist was born in 1977) and Franco Canevello for Avegno (where
instead Bacchetti resides) ... Although his uncontested bravura and his being an internationally renowned pianist who
played concerts all around the world, Bacchetti has his popularity in his own nation to two tv broadcasters: Mike
Bongiorno - who Bacchetti knew in his youth, when he was nominated a child prodigy - and Piero Chiambretti, more recently.
... As soon as he met the pianist, Chiambretti immediately understood he was looking at a great pianist but also at a
character who is decisively ironic, witty and out of schemes ...
Two Mayors compete for Bacchetti
Il Nuovo Levante - September 2nd, 2016 (Imm)
Music in the Temples at the Archeological Park in Paestum, in order to end this summer in the most moving way!
Until September 10th, there will be on scene the first music festival "Music in the Temples" in the ancient Temple of Hera (which is also known as Paestum Basilica), build in the VI Century b.C. honoring the wife of Zeus... On Friday 2nd, at 9 p.m., Antonella Ruggiero and Andrea Bacchetti will offer a show. The singer-songwriter will propose the most important songs of the music scenery with a special arrangement by the pianist, who is known by the TV audience for his participation at the Chiambretti Night Show. ...
Until September 10th, there will be on scene the first music festival "Music in the Temples" in the ancient Temple of Hera (which is also known as Paestum Basilica), build in the VI Century b.C. honoring the wife of Zeus... On Friday 2nd, at 9 p.m., Antonella Ruggiero and Andrea Bacchetti will offer a show. The singer-songwriter will propose the most important songs of the music scenery with a special arrangement by the pianist, who is known by the TV audience for his participation at the Chiambretti Night Show. ...
Music in the Temples at Paestum with concerts in the suggestive Archeological Park
Napolike.it - August 26th, 2016 (Alessandro Ruggieri)
The limpid and versatile voice of Antonella Ruggiero, the piano of the histrionic Andrea Bacchetti and the nocturnal
suggestions of Paestum. Three magical ingredients for the tonight concert at 9 p.m. in front of the Basilica, in the
archeological area in via Magna Grecia ...
Ms. Ruggiero, is it her first time to sing in Paestum?
«Yes, it is. I always felt the charm of the history and the majesty of this place. They offer emotions which get combined well with my songs, that for this occasion are "dressed" of sonorities of ancient times, sonorities which sometimes are a little hazarded, by the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who is a classical virtuoso. We are exchanging our musical worlds, and his is really more rigorous». ...
Ms. Ruggiero, is it her first time to sing in Paestum?
«Yes, it is. I always felt the charm of the history and the majesty of this place. They offer emotions which get combined well with my songs, that for this occasion are "dressed" of sonorities of ancient times, sonorities which sometimes are a little hazarded, by the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who is a classical virtuoso. We are exchanging our musical worlds, and his is really more rigorous». ...
Interview
la Repubblica.it - September 2nd, 2016 (Alessandro Vaccaro)
On Sunday, September 4th at 9 p.m.m in Piazza Fenice, two big names of music ... Andrea Bacchetti at the piano
and the voice of the great Antonella Ruggiero ... these two Ligurian artists will propose an astonishing repertoire,
recalling some of the greatest successes by Antonella from her experience with the Matia Bazar and from her
soloist career, in a new and suggestive version with unique arrangements, some very important covers from Italian
and international pop music and some short pieces of piano solo, which Andrea and Antonella chose demonstrating
a great sensitiveness.
In Piazza Fenice the wonderful voice of Antonella Ruggiero with Andrea Bacchetti
Il Nuovo Levante - September 2nd, 2016 (scu)
She has a limpid voice with a vertiginous extension. He is a pianist who was strictly trained in classical music,
but who is also very versatile and ironic. Together, they assembled a very suggestive program ... "A piano
and a voice", this is the title of the concert, a musical excursus which will lead the audience back in time,
with famous melodies, that have been modernised with specially-made arrangements and that will create deep and
evocative atmospheres. ...
Ruggiero's voice, piano of Bacchetti
Il Secolo XIX - September 4th, 2016 (p.p.)
The historical voice of the Matia Bazar and one of the most applauded Italian pianists. Antonella Ruggiero and
Andrea Bacchetti will perform together tonight at 9 p.m., in Piazza Fenice (Chiavari). This project is based on
music and on show: it will comprehend the greatest successes by Antonella Ruggiero and the most important songs
from the musical scenery, that will have a particular and fascinating specially-made arrangement, with a harmonious
and unique mix of voice and sound. ...
Double show: Ruggiero sings, Bacchetti plays
la Repubblica.it - September 4th, 2016 (newsroom)
The international Concert Season "Note del Timavo" is starting: it reached its twenty-fourth edition and
this year it will take place only in its traditional location, the Church of S. John in Tuba, where its first
concerts were set in 1988 ...
"Note del Timavo", the Venetian Symphonic Night opens
Il Piccolo - September 11th, 2016 (newsroom)
... this duo, the clarinet of Giampiero Sobrino and the piano of Andrea Bacchetti, will offer musics by Bach, Debussy,
Schubert, Poulenc and Verdi. Sobrino was the first soloist clarinet of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Torino
until 1994; in the next decade, he played in the Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra. Bacchetti is a pianist with a
very particular style and was many times host at "Note del Timavo" ...
"Note del Timavo" in Duino
Il Piccolo - September 26th, 2016 (newsroom)
What happens if you put together Andrea Bacchetti, the Italian "Bach", a Ligurian internationally renowned
pianist, and Roberto Ranfaldi, first violin of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Torino, in the enchanted scenery
of one of the most beautiful historical villas of the Riviera di Levante, Villa Durazzo Pallavicini in Santa
Margherita Ligure? Something more than a simple event for the chamber music lovers will come out from the meeting of
these two great musicians, together with the combination of the embracing and limpid sonorities of their instruments.
It will be an aesthetic experience that will spread on Kreisler, Brahms and Beethoven's wings in order to transform
into pure emotion. ...
"Santa": on this Saturday great music with Bacchetti and Ranfaldi
www.levantenews.it - September 29th, 2016 (newsroom)
On Sunday, October 9th at 11 a.m. in the Church of S. Joseph, Classica - a show organised by Alba Music Festival -
will see Andrea Bacchetti coming back, one of the best Italian pianists, an authentic favourite by the Alba audience,
who in this occasion will move from Bach and Scarlatti's Baroque to some composers of the Twentieth Century
as George Gershwin. ...
Classica presents Andrea Bacchetti
Gazzetta d'Alba - October 4th, 2016 (newsroom)
Andrea Bacchetti does not need long presentations: Amadeus readers already know the Genoese pianist well ...
But with this disc, we can feel another step forward: there is always his beloved Bach on the music stand,
but the refinement with which he faces the keyboard - and the baton too, because in this occasion he is also
the conductor - is remarkable also for those who know him well ... in addition to Bacchetti's undeniable
talent, this double cd shows also the hard work that Juraj Valcuha did with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra ...
Cds
Amadeus - nr.324 November 2016 (Claudia Abbiati)
FULL ARTICLE (Italian)
The Verdi Hall is particularly crowded in order to welcome the new concert by the Genoese pianist Andrea Bacchetti
for the Serate Musicali festival, in a rainy night of November. In this occasion, the beloved Bach, who is always
protagonist of many very high-level soirees and recordings by our artist is put apart (almost: in fact, he will be
back as one of the two encores at the end of the concert, played with enthusiasm by the musician and applauded with
satisfaction by his audience): this time, Mozart is the topic. On Bacchetti's talent almost everything has been
told: since a long time he has been excellent while recording - as the highest level of his last release with Sony
Classical, Bach Concertos with orchestra, witnesses - and he has become also an important live performer both on
the Italian and the international musical sceneries, being able to captivate the audience that follows him constantly
in his Milanese events and that grew fond to him. ...
Bacchetti and Mozart
www.Amadeusonline.net - November 25th, 2016 (Claudia Abbiati)
... The opening concert with the pianist Andrea Bacchetti is dedicated to Morbegno. Being an internationally
renowned artist, Bacchetti already performed for the fourth edition of the Piano Festival with an extraordinary
Bach dedicated recital, followed by nine encores! This time, his program comprehends musics by Bach and Mozart,
and we are wondering if he will offer even more encores...
7th Piano Festival - Andrea Bacchetti
www.evensi.it - November 2016 (newsroom)
... piano and voice only, and emotion is strong: an album you have to collect, listen to again and again ...
... a magnificent album! A wonderful voice, that is emphasised by the piano accompaniment, putting the songs in a brand new light. I was really touched listening to it ...
... precious, never ordinary arrangements by the excellent pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who magisterially signs every track with his notes. And the complicity between these two is perfect. ...
... I really suggest it!
... a magnificent album! A wonderful voice, that is emphasised by the piano accompaniment, putting the songs in a brand new light. I was really touched listening to it ...
... precious, never ordinary arrangements by the excellent pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who magisterially signs every track with his notes. And the complicity between these two is perfect. ...
... I really suggest it!
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www.amazon.it - November/December 2016
The musical season "Contrasts 2016" reaches its ninth date with the fundamental concert "Les Flutes
Enchantees" Wednesday, November 30th at 8.45 p.m., at the Gustavo Modena Theatre in Palmanova, the Romanticism
and the virtuosity of the Eighteenth Century will take life with Maxence Larrieu, one of the greatest flutists in the
world, who was praised by the French government with the legion of honour and the knighthood for Arts and Literature.
At his side, there will be the famous flutist Giuseppe Nova and the extraordinary pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who has
been admired as soloist and chamber musician in the greatest international halls. Their refined program comprehends
musics by Kuhlau, Böhm, Ferenc and Karl Doppler ...
"Les Flutes Enchantees" with Larrieu, Nova and Bacchetti in Palmanova for "Contrasts 2016"
www.ildiscorso.it - November 27th, 2016 (Enrico Liotti)
In December 2015, Andrea Bacchetti performed a concert during the first edition of "Contrasts". This year,
the pianist will double his presence at the second edition of this event around the Mitteleuropa Orchestra. Tonight
he will be among the protagonists of the concert "Les Flutes Enchantees": with him on the stage of the
Gustavo Modena Theatre there will be the flutists Maxence Larrieu and Giuseppe Nova. ... Again, at the Gustavo Modena
Theatre, on Wednesday December 7th, Bacchetti will play the Concerto n.4 by Beethoven with the Mitteleuropa Orchestra.
Meeting once again this original interpreter will be a real pleasure ...
Andrea Bacchetti in Palmanova / a double piano for "Contrasts 2016"
Il Piccolo - November 30th, 2016 (Alex Pessotto)
The musical season "Contrasts 2016" is at its tenth date with a great agreement by both audience and critics.
On Wednesday, December 7th at 8.45 p.m. At the Gustavo Modena Theatre in Palmanova, a fundamental concert will have the
Mitteleuropa Orchestra, lead by Giovanni Pacor, with the extraordinary pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who has been applauded
as soloist and chamber musician in the most important halls of the world, after a triumphant tour in the Far East that
brought him to Hong Kong, Giacarta, and in six of the most important Japanese cities. Born in Genova in 1977, Bacchetti
is considered one of the most talented artists in the new generation of Italian musicians. ...
The Mitteleuropa Orchestra in concert with Andrea Bacchetti in Palmanova for "Contrasts 2016"
www.instart.it - December 5th, 2016 (newsroom)
An incredible pianist, who is able to dialogue with the major symphonic orchestras of the world and at the same time
to interpret Antonella Ruggiero's hits with great expressivity, and who does all this passing through the Chiambretti
Night Show broadcasting studios with irony. Andrea Bacchetti will be today in Palmanova in order to play with the
Mitteleuropa Orchestra in the tenth appointment of the musical season "Contrasts 2016". ...
Bacchetti, from Beethoven to Chiambretti and coming back
Messaggero Veneto - December 7th, 2016 (Monica Del Mondo)
The popular singer and songwriter tells her new project with the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, that will be on the stage
of the Auditorium Park of the Music on December 16th: «Songs change as time goes by like people do»
A collection of unforgettable pieces, one of the most beautiful Italian feminine voices ever, a new project created uniquely for her, and here we have "The unpredictable life of songs", the new album by Antonella Ruggiero. Together with the eclectic pianist Andrea Bacchetti, for the last two years she has been bringing on tour some splendid songs arranged with sonorities that are nearer to classical music, and this record is the final result of this experience. And, if in 1975 Antonella Ruggiero's inimitable voice allowed Matia Bazar to become someone in the Italian music world, today she is back to thrill with some of these songs in a even more sophisticated and elegant version, a production by Roberto Colombo, who has been creating many among the tracks in their original version, since the Eighties. ...
A collection of unforgettable pieces, one of the most beautiful Italian feminine voices ever, a new project created uniquely for her, and here we have "The unpredictable life of songs", the new album by Antonella Ruggiero. Together with the eclectic pianist Andrea Bacchetti, for the last two years she has been bringing on tour some splendid songs arranged with sonorities that are nearer to classical music, and this record is the final result of this experience. And, if in 1975 Antonella Ruggiero's inimitable voice allowed Matia Bazar to become someone in the Italian music world, today she is back to thrill with some of these songs in a even more sophisticated and elegant version, a production by Roberto Colombo, who has been creating many among the tracks in their original version, since the Eighties. ...
"The unpredictable life of songs", the return of Ruggiero
www.romasette.it - December 9th, 2016 (Concita De Simone)
... the former Matia Bazar singer already experienced contamination among different music genres, but in this
work she makes a further step forward, "refreshing" many successes of the past with brand new piano
arrangements ... To help her on this path, there's the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, a talented classic musician ...
A voice enchant, Antonella Ruggiero
Il Venerdì di Repubblica - December 16th, 2016 (G.M.)
... On schedule there are four music afternoons, all of a very high-level, with soloists, chamber ensembles and
an orchestra. Programs will comprehend also recent music productions, with a special eye on music of our times. ...
"The Concerti Cividalesi" opens remembering Antonio Picotti
www.udinetoday.it - December 7th, 2016 (newsroom)
The famous and appreciated pianist Andrea Bacchetti, a regular host in the lucky tv shows by Piero Chiambretti,
will play together with Giuseppe Nova in the music event "The Concerti Cividalesi", which is dedicated
to the memory of the lawyer Antonio Picotti, cultural point of reference for the town and creator of this appointment
in the late Seventies. The festival, at its XXXVI edition, is organised by the cultural association Sergio Gaggia
of Cividale. On Sunday, December 18th, in the Foundation Hall in Bottenicco di Moimacco, it will be possible to
listen to a all-Bach program with some of his most important secular pieces for flute and keyboard. Giuseppe Nova
will play his golden flute, together with Andrea Bacchetti, who will perform solo the famous "Italian
Concert". ...
The pianist Andrea Bacchetti at "The Concerti Cividalesi"
www.friulisera.it - December 7th, 2016 (newsroom)
Opening the 2016/2017 Season "La Giovane Classicità" at the Philharmonic Theatre on Monday, December 19th
at 9 p.m., a concert by the City of Verona Symphonic Orchestra and Andrea Bacchetti's piano ... an affirmed soloist
who performed in the most important theaters in the world, he is back in Verona under the lead by Francesco Mazzoli
after the success of his Beethoven concert in 2014. ...
Figaro and Symphony, all-Mozart with Bacchetti's piano
L'Arena - December 15th, 2016 (Giuseppe Corrà)
A good opening for the new lyrical and symphonic season "La Giovane Classicità". The concert at the
Philharmonic Theatre, enriched by Andrea Bacchetti, an internationally renowned pianist, performed by the City of
Verona Symphonic Orchestra and lead by the Maestro Francesco Mazzoli, convinced its big audience, collecting many
applauses. ... The pianist put in the spotlight his technique and his finest sensibility ... and the Orchestra too
gave a great and really convincing demonstration of its expressive capabilities.
Mazzoli and Bacchetti, a thrilling bond
L'Arena - December 28th, 2016 (G.C.)
On Thursday at 9 p.m. at the Santa Rosa Theatre in Carcare, an extraordinary concert by the pianist Andrea Bacchetti,
who is famous to the tv audience as "Chiambretti's pianist" and who, since last year, plays with the former
Matia Bazar singer Antonella Ruggiero. Bacchetti is in Carcare for the first time after a triumphant tour in the Far
East that brought him to Hong Kong, Giacarta and in six of the most important Japanese cities. ...
Andrea Bacchetti in concert at the Santa Rosa Theatre in Carcare
www.albengacorsara.it - December 2016 (newsroom)
... the Association "Oratorio Santa Rosa" of Carcare and the Musical Association "Rossini" of
Savona worked together to organise this concert with a contribute by the Noberasco Company of Carcare, official
sponsor for the event. As for the Asiatic tour, the program comprehends a first part dedicated to Bach with two
English Suites, three French Suites (all of them played without refrains) and the Italian Concert. ... In the second
part of the concert, he will play two pieces by Mozart: the Rondo K485 (which is considered an "easy"
sheet, probably written for a pupil or some noble amateur) and the Sonata K333, which was composed by Mozart during
his third stay in Paris in 1778, a piece that recalls sentimental comedy, bourgeois theatre by Lessing with his
both rational and affected analysis of sentiments.
Waiting in Carcare for Andrea Bacchetti's concert
www.rsvn.it - December 2nd, 2016 (newsroom)
The Association "Friends of Music" of Busca closes the year with a grand finale for the «Musicaè»
Festival, in two dates. On Saturday, December 17th at 9.115 p.m. at the Civic Theatre, with the Russian pianist Evgeny
Starodubtev, who won last year the Caraglio International Piano Competition, and on Thursday, December 22nd, at the same
hour at the Lux Cinema/Theatre, with an extraordinary duo: the singer Antonella Ruggiero and the pianist Andrea Bacchetti. ...
End-of-year concert by the Association "Friends of Music" of Busca
www.lastampa.it - December 15th, 2016 (Vanna Pescatori)
... With her splendid voice, that makes her able to incredible and "round" acutes without crying, ductile and
rich in shades, Antonella Ruggiero confirms once again to be a very tempered artist ... At her side, Bacchetti: impeccable
technique, refined touch, he assures a full and discrete support, with a researched chamber taste ... fine lyrics for voice
and piano, in an arrangement by Stefano Barzan
Antonella Ruggiero's class - Bacchetti reinvents her hits
La Repubblica - December 29th, 2016 (Roberto Iovino)
FULL ARTICLE (Italian)
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