Andrea Bacchetti Official Web Site


TOP		PRESS REVIEWS 1989 / 1998

		Andrea Bacchetti möchte der jüngste Solist der Festspiele gewesen sein, ein "Wunderkind" von gerade zwölf (!) Jahren, quirlig und unverfroren, dabei schlichtweg genialisch im Zugriff auf Scarlatti und Prokofieff-Petitessen (zwei Sonaten resp. Marche, op. 65/10, und Prélude, op. 12/7) die er förmlich aus dem Handgelenk schüttelte, sie zugleich aber so delikat phrasierte, daß man das nicht für Blendwerk allein halten durfte: ein Kissin der unmittelbaren Zukunft? ... Salzburg 1989 Festspielstadt *Ein zwolfjahriger Knabe verbluffte am Klavier* Salzburger Nachrichten - August 24^th,1989, Karl Harb


		An extraordinary concert organised by "The Concerts Society" ... The Solisti Veneti, directed by Claudio Scimone, christened the 12-years old pianist Andrea Bacchetti in a wonderful concert hall ... It should have been a great emotion ... and since from the Orchestra exposition, his unquiet moves at the piano showed that he was – even before beginning to play - already tuned on the players logic, synchronised with their breathing. But after that his touch has the grace of the sound, his agility is fluid, fast, clear. These skills, which surely will make a great musician of him – before than pianist, even - have been felt during the Mozart’s Concerto-Rondò K387 and above all in the severe choice of the encores: a score by Monpou, a study of great calibrations; a Scarlatti’s Sonata, with the harpsichord playing conjuring notes; the rapid lightness of a close encounter with Bach: the scent of rhythms, piano e forte in Prokoviev. The most astonishing quality of his most-than-applauded performance, however, has been the improvisation during which - as the most gifted musicians used to do - he instantly developed a theme provided by the audience ... The Concerts Society – Milan *Twelve years and many applauses* Corriere della Sera - December 19^th, 1989, Franca Cella


		We’ve been offered, as a complete surprise, the performance of a twelve-years old Genoese pianist, Andrea Bacchetti. This enfant prodige, who already had his debut at the Concerts Society in Milan and even won many international prizes, offered us scores from Criabin, Moszkowski and Scarlatti. Not questionable the musical talent of this youngster, who is able to join a technical severity with an artistic sensibility which contribute to foresee a hopeful brilliant future. "A life for music" 1990 prize to Nikita Magaloff Il Gazzettino - July 1^st, 1990, Magaloff’s heart Mario Messinis


		... Mozarts Konzert-Rondo in A-Dur KV 386 ist 1782, kurz nach der Ubersiedlung nach Wien entstanden. Das kaum 13jährige Klaviertalent, Andrea Bacchetti aus Genua, spielte das reizende Stück mit Souplesse, feinen anschlaglichen Nuancen und natürlicher Freude am Gelingen. Die virtuose Kadenz und das Wechselspiel mit den Streichern boten keine Probleme, ebensowenig die zusätzlich gespielte Scarlatti-Sonate. Man begreift, dass sich Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg vom Spiel des jungen Italieners begeistern liess, und dass der Komponist Luciano Berio seine künstlerische Entwicklung überwachen möchte. ... Luzern Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzerner Tagblatt - August 28^th, 1990 Hervorragende solistische Leistungen


		...apart from Magaloff, the sisters Guhrer and Suhrer Pekinel played as well ... joining the youngster Andrea Bacchetti, they performed Mozart’s Concert in F maj K 242 for three pianos and orchestra ... with a clear performance - surely not lower in quality than his colleagues’ ones - Andrea Bacchetti was able to put his personal touch of candour, very well-suited to the arabesques of this delicate instrumental jigsaw ... Settembre Musica Stampasera - September 22^nd, 1990, Gran finale with Nikita Orazio Mula


		... Theatre sold out and overjoyed, endless applauses, five encores awarded to the audience. This is the amazing report of yesterday evening’s performance, at Margherita Theatre, of the thirteen-years old Andrea Bacchetti ... Andrea obviously confirmed what people already wrote about him. He’s got an extraordinary music sensibility, a wide sound range which allows him to play a noticeable number of colours and expressions. He’s also got a first-class exposition clarity. All considered, he’s an authentic talented musician able to communicate with the audience in an immediate, spontaneous and involving way G.O.G. Giovine Orchestra Genovese (Young Genoese Orchestra) La Stampa - January 15^th, 1991, Andrea, what an evening! Roberto Iovino


		... A performance of special quality was delivered by the not yet fourteen-years old pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who played Piano concert in G maj KV 41 and Concert Rondò in A maj KV 386, as well as an improvisation on a Mozart theme chosen by Professor Ernst Lichtenhahn. The young student (at Genoese Conservatory "Niccolò Paganini") is already a swift-fingered Maestro with a both aromatic and delicate touch and a smart and fancy improvisation, able to lead all the different music genres in a colourful swirling ... Zurich Mozart Day *Andrea Bacchetti Mozart Concert with Festival String Luzern* Zürichsee-Zeitung / Allgemeiner Anzeiger - February 5^th, 1991, Torbjörn Bergflödt


		... Andrea Bacchetti is by now considered as one of the most strong promises in the Italian music scenario, and the astonishing precocity of his talent allowed him to become famous at a very young age. The thirteen-years old Genoese pianist ... won many competitions, among which a 1988 prize in Stresa for "piano improvisation". He has been chosen as one of the best young pianists for representing Italy at 1989 "Mozart Prize" ... he claimed on himself the interest of famous artists like Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Berio and many other important directors. 28^t International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo Giornale di Brescia - May 17^th, 1991, A "wonder" to listen to Roberto Bellini


		The fact that a fourteen-years old boy, Andrea Bacchetti, could act as a soloist in two Mozart’s Piano Concert ... has doubtless increased the curiosity ... this yet-student concert pianist ... is already a character on his own, and he reminds us a Serkin made young, more than an enfant prodige himself ... He hasn’t got the confidence nor the arrogance of the supernatural talented people, but he really plays like an "old one", with a great confidence and balance, always concentrating ... he plays majestic, with a wonderful sound and with an intelligence-controlled musicality ... warmest applauses from the audience ... Friends of Music – Florence and Settembre Musica Andrea, what a sound – The boy fills the audience with enthusiasm through Mozart – director Bellugi. La Nazione - September 21^st, 1991, Leonardo Pinzauti


		... The second half of the sold-out concert offered as main performer the young emerging talent Andrea Bacchetti, who interpreted with strong and excellent technique Mozart’s Concert in A maj K 414 for piano and orchestra. This "little big artist", grown up since the last time I listened to him as regards his articulate range of sounds, did really let the music flow through his cadenzas and through the feedbacks with the orchestra ... challenged to improvise on various themes, he managed to succeed with extreme easy and confidence, reminding memories of Mozart ... warm and long applauses. The Concerts Society Instruments and Music nr. 12 – December 1991, *Andrea Bacchetti: Technique and improvisation* Bruno Bertucci


		The importance of the appearance in the State Hall of Pforzheim of the Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti, born in 1977 near Genoa, revealed itself very early, we could say after some strokes on the keyboard of his piano, during his soloist session of L.v. Beethoven’s Piano Concert nr. 2 in Bmaj Opus 19, as a real music sensation. What we listened to is impossible to describe, since the young pianist managed to infuse in his performance exactly what the Great Beethoven’s Scores meant: eloquence, vitality and passion ... Südwestdeutschen Kammerorchester *Huge acclamations in the State Hall – Young artist elates his audience* Pforzheimer Kurier - July 1^st, 1992 Rudolf Wesner


		A concert which delivered many nice surprises: this was the final result of last Sunday’s performance of Filarmonica Laudamo, both for the program – presenting fully enjoyable scores – and for the presence of exceptionally precocious, talented soloists. On stage one of the most qualified German chamber ensemble, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester from Pforzheim lead by Vladislav Czarnecki ... perfectly carved performances, wonderful sounds and flawless ensembles ... the amazing sixteen-years old pianist Andrea Bacchetti, gifted with extremely skillful hands and geometrical mind, but in the same time already able to master the expressive contents. The audience, warm and participating, has been fairly conquered. Filarmonica Laudamo, Messina Gazzetta del Sud - December 12^th, 1993 A qualified orchestra with precocious soloists Santi Calabrò


		...final performance of the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who offered the first artistic check to the Festival’s fancy choices playing with confidence, among other scores, Vorisek’s Sonata in Bmin flat and Hummel’s Sonata in Fmin Op. nr. 20 ... 32^nd International Piano Festival of Brescia e Bergamo La Repubblica - May 20^th, 1995, *Close-up Beethoven* Angelo Foletto


		...We are among those who remained astonished in front of the supernatural musical nature of Andrea Bacchetti when we met him for the first time, eleven-years old pianist. After having observed some steps on his artistic path, with great interest and – to be honest – with some tender concern we went to listen to him again, eighteen-years old, as soloist in Franck’s "Symphonic Variations" for piano and orchestra... No doubts about the complete evolution of the artistic personality of Andrea Bacchetti...Coping with the famous Franck’s score, Andrea Bacchetti expressed clear intentions, which shone (and made the rest shining) in the fabulous, stratospheric, towering quintessence of the emotional side, cleaned from any weakness – and from any easy permissiveness as well – in favour of sensual seductions or fancy surrender. This sharp essentiality reveals deeply poetic feelings: they conjure transcendent glows, transparencies, something really "absolute"... Extraordinary performer, fairly acclaimed by the audience with the warmest ovations... Il Secolo XIX, Genoa - November 12^th, 1995 *Bacchetti, always better* Claudio Tempo


		…in Mozart’s KV414 A-maj concert, the nineteen-years old Andrea Bacchetti has been extremely convincing. We had the chance to witness an astonishing ensemble with the Orchestra, together with brightness, balance, great sense of taste; a performance enlightened by delicate colors… International Festival of Lucerne *40 Years of the Festival Strings Lucerne Celebration* - R. Baumgartner Dir. Neue Zürcher Zeitung - August 22^nd, 1996 Alfred Zimmerlin
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		This young, extremely gifted player, emerges thanks to the powerful musical thought which sustains an inflexible virtuosness: a thought – possibly classical – which is now enhanced through a profound knowledge of the reasons of modern culture; this generates a severe concentration upon the scores, an analytical discipline which refuses easy extroversions and the tempting cheap effects… Venezia Award 1996 – National Piano Contest *Venezia Award goes to the Genoese Bacchetti, rigorous player and inflexible style* Il Gazzettino - November 26^th, 1996 Mario Messinis


		... Andrea Bacchetti chose for his recital a rich and articulate program, which included scores from the contemporary Luciano Berio and Sergej Prokoviev as well as from the most romantic Ludwig van Beethoven and Fryderyk Chopin...Dramatic episodes, thin and mysterious atmospheres, tragic and majestic tones enhance the wonderful Sonata nr. 30 in Emaj op. 109 which outmost clear, clean and confident execution really steals applauses and ovations form an audience which really didn’t expect – considering the performer’s age – an oh-so-overwhelming interpretative strength... Sorrento Music Summer Il Golfo - July 28^th, 1997 *Recital of the young Andrea Bacchetti* Maria Magno


		… Andrea Bacchetti unleashes the Ninth Symphony Composer’s philosophical soul: he’s a virtuoso with a great knowledge of the profound contents of the Works but he’s a temperate as well, and that’s a rare virtue among the young talents. The highest peak of the young Genoese player’s talent is the renowned Chopin’s Scherzo, brought with an excellent enhancement of the Choral Theme, which becomes a magical background, together with the absolute control of the water effects; and everything comes naturally, alternating and side by side in the same time. Famiglia Cristiana nr. 29/1997 "Classical Music – The CD" Luigi Della Croce


		... In the evening came the turn of Andrea Bacchetti, the youngest in the kermesse, of great interest and interpretative strength: his intelligence in choosing the tempos and his dedication to the sound and the fraseggio marked as wonderful the executions of Klavierstücke Op. 119, of the Rhapsodies op. 79 (real nightmare for the students of the Conservatory’s Intermediate Course) and of the Fantasies op. 116. The emotional participation is always controlled and dedicated, never apt to easy effects or useless flatteries: the feelings, sometimes painful and sometimes smilingly sad, of these pages find in Bacchetti an accurate observer, a sharp reader of the most secluded emotions; we are talking about a Brahms who has been analytically filtered, with an almost scientific accuracy and a really "modern" approach. Pesaro Concert Society & "G. Rossini" Conservatory of Pesaro Piano Time nr. 163, The piano of Brahms and the Magnificent Seven Alberto Barbadoro


		... Uncompromising, precise, observant of the rules, disciplined, gifted with a strong personality: all virtues which belong to an affirmed pianist rather than to an extremely young and promising concert-artist of only twentyone years. The Genoese Andrea Bacchetti captured the attention of the public in the foyer of the Donizetti last Tuesday evening in a crescendo of elegance and refinement, reconfirming a disarming self-assurance in techniqueand performance, unusual for his age. Alternating lyrical moments and rhythmically intense leaps with calm moments, Bacchetti often demonstrated a striking technical agility; swept away by virtuoism, by pure technicality (a particular talent of his), by precision, by rapidity by spectacular display but he never however forgot the interpretative essentiality and expressive depth of Schumann’s pianism. International Piano Festival of Brescia & Bergamo Il Nuovo Giornale di Bergamo - May 21^th, 1998 *Bacchetti: bravo, accurate and assured* Paola Palermo


		… Bacchetti shows a splendid evolution on the keyboard, natural and delicate like only the great players achieve…In the prestigious Hall of Palazzo Cantacuzino, Bacchetti played L. Berio’s Encores, the monumental L. van Beethoven’s Sonata nr. 30 op. 109, the six Intermezzo op. 4 and the Variations on the name ABEGG op. 1 by Schumann, together with some encores for the audience which warmthly admired and applauded him. The Concert has been recorded by the Rumenian Radiobroadcasting Company. The impression he left is that of an exceptional exhibition, really flashing, with unbelievable high virtuosness moments together with breathtaking expression profoundness. Ziua Bucarest - September 25^th, 1998 Mircea Stefanescu
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	... Solid, granitic, inexorable in the "Intermezzi" but whimsical, relaxed brilliant in the "Variations" (Schumann), the pianist Andrea Bacchetti, protagonist of the concert on August 31’, penetrated the labryinth of the language of the apostle of Romanticism, strong in a profound cultural conception; everything was weighed, the proportions were in full romantic style: a virile style! A robust sound throughout the dynamic range ... , flexible in defining the instrumental colour. a rhythmic continuity embellished with measured agogic variations, the Artist was in symbiosis with his instrument from which he obtained maximum performance with minimum effort; he plays with the whole body over which he imposes his will; he is concentrated, perfectly lucid and fully aware of what he is doing. In Liszt - romantic titan of the keyboard - our pianist created a dynamic and always brilliant sound. ... In the "Péchés de vieillesse" Rossini creates harmonic pranks that are surprisingly modem and in these Bacchetti fully confirmed his interpretative abilities. International Festival of the Estate Musicale Sorrentina, Sorrento *The close of the International Festival of the Estate Musicale Sorrentina* Corriere del Sebeto - September-October 1998 Antonella De Pasquale





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