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This concert deserves to be remembered especially for the élite
guest: the young Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti. Already known thanks
to his interpretation of the XX century music, especially the one
written by the great contemporary Maestro Luciano Berio (about
which he’s realizing a CD), for this concert Bacchetti did choose a
young Mozart’s Work: the Concert in A nr. 12, K 414… The sharp
intelligence, majestically expressed in the delicate interpretation of
the finest details, enhanced by a thin and wonderful relation with the
orchestra, offered us a fascinating concert which witnesses the great
personality of this young artist, grown inside the Italian pianistic
school. Thanks to all this, our wish is to meet him more and more often
on our stages.
G. Enescu Symphonic and Philarmonic Orchestra’s Season, Roman
Athenaeum, Bucarest
The
culture for the accuracy
Free Romania - July 10th, 1999, Fred Popovici
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…Andrea
Bacchetti has been undoubtely one of the best pianists who played in
this Festival since its beginning, 27 editions ago…His technique made
easy everything which is normally very difficult…
International Piano Festival – Menorca (Spain)
Bacchetti
christens the XXVII Music Festival
Menorça
- July 11th, 1999
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Bacchetti shone, with his velvet sound, as a strong pianistic view
interpreter… His absolute control on the piano’s sound body has been
brightly aperceived… He succedeed in deepening the most introspective
vision of the instrument with great skill and masterdom.
Principate
of Asturia’s Orchestra - Inaugural Concert of the Symphonic Season
La Nueva España - October 9th, 1999, Joachin Valdeon
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... A soloist who presented himself modestly with a Schumann wrongly
considered "minor", that is the "Album ftir die
Jugend" (a training-ground of didactic exercises introductory to
the keyboard) andyet was nevertheless capable of suggesting a reading
not only novel and meditated but also one which confirmed the first true
and complete cultured physiognomy "statu nascenti" of the
young performer.
... The pianist achieved a supreme balance in which the narration and
the "declarnatory passage" predominate avoiding any material
trivialization of the sound: and this was his greatest achievement as
interpreter ... Perhaps only Magaloff among the pianists of the past had
a similar olympic vision of the compositions which he transformed into a
delicate filigree that was a joy to the ears ... Before us, without
doubt, was one of the major interpreters of Chopin of our time who
seemed almost a reincarnation of Dino Ciani for total adherence to the
melody in its highly modem compositional centrality from Monteverdi to
Mahler to Richard Strauss.
Serate
Musicali, Milan
Andrea
Bacchetti at the "Sala Verdi" of Milan
Musica e Scuola - November 1999, Enzo
Fantin
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... In the March edition of "Amadeus" we had the chance of
singing the praises of Andrea Bacchetti. We would recommend this
CD-portrait to whoever has not yet heard this extremely talented Genoese
pianist (up to now he has recorded four CDs), the recording comprises a
series of pieces from various recitals. Andrea himself chose the pieces
on the disc since at this moment he is concentrating on the great music
of the nineteenth century: in those great ideals, those great passions,
those great sorrows set to music by Chopin, Liszt, Brahms and others. It
becomes the self-portrait of a twenty-three-year-old who puts a great
deal of himself in the music and who matures at a significant pace
granted by an uncommon interior as well as musical capacity.
CD Un
Portrait –
Press Rewiew,
Videoradio / 000344 / Distribution: Fonola Dischi / 1998, 1999 / DDD
Live / Libretto: good / Italian
Amadeus nr. 1/2000, January 2000, N.
Sguben
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Among today’s Italian musicians, Luciano Berio is surely one of
the most popular…the Piano Festival dedicated to him the entire
evening to which he took part. In every choosen score…it was very
perceiving the distinguishing mark, which joined the sound
preciousness with a richful inventiveness which becomes more unleashed
year after year…The interpretations brought by Pascal Gallios
(Bassoon), Luisa Castellani (Soprano) and Andrea Bacchetti (Piano)
were excellent…In the "Team Play" lined up by Luisa
Castellani and by the talentuos Genoese pianist Andrea Bacchetti
(barely twenty years old) in the 4 Popular Songs, the single
individualities sum up and merge together, becoming fruitfully
complementary, thus enhancing the interactive dialoguing tissue of the
score.
International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo – Donizetti
Theatre
Brilliant
Concert for Berio
Il Nuovo Giornale di Bergamo - May 10th, 2000, Paola Palermo
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... Delgado, no muy alto, con unas gafas que le ortogan màs un aspecto
de investigador que de intérprete, Andrea Bacchetti aparece en escena
con paso nervioso; se cuadra y saluda de un modo singular, con una
rigidez casi de autòmata. Pero se sienta al piano y se transfigura.
Todo lo que antes era actitud rigurosa es ahora ademàn flexible.
Y comienza a desgranar las notas de las Variaciones de Haydn con una
limpidez, una claridad radiante, diferenciando los timbres mediante el
empleo de una dinàmica voluntariamente moderada, uno volùmenes siempre
medidos, sin contrastes violentos, una bien controlada agògica en las
dilataciones del compàs, y tambien mediante el fraseo màs refinado,
destacando los pasajes "staccato" con una sonoridad percutida,
casi clavecinìstica. Idéntico plateamiento para un Mozart cuyos
caracterìsticos efectos "legato-staccato" fueron traducidos
con una inteligencia que parecen improprias de un joven intérprete. ...
En Beethoven, lògicamente, Bacchetti utilizò mayores contrastes dinàmicos.
Gran versiòn de otra obra que mira al futuro. ... Tras el divertido
Rossini con sus pecados de vejez, y en especial después de una
fulgurante tarantela salpicada con los caracterìsticos
"crescendi" rossinianos,la sala prorrumpiò en bravos
manifestando un gran entusiasmo.
El intérprete correspondiò con tres ampliaciones del programa: dos
piezas de Chopin y una espléndida versiòn del conocido Preludio de
Gerswhin. ...
Festival
Internacional de musica in Galicia,
Teatro Rosalia Castro
www.mundoclasico.com, La Coruña - June 3rd, 2000, Julio Andrade
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The recital that took place last monday had the subject
"Virtuosness’ temptations from Moscow to Hollywood", and did
include a series of works, known by their technical difficulties,
composed between the XIX and the XX Century by musician such as
Prokoviev, Liszt, Rossini, Debussy and Gershwin…Bacchetti succeeded in
demonstrating his flawless comfort in any period, style, shape and
(especially) difficulty the score could challenge him with. He
demonstrated an astonishing skill in joining academic ability with
technical mastership, despite the serious problems which the piano he
played undoubtedly presented. The good qualities of Bacchetti
immediately appeared during the introductory "Piano Preludes"
by George Gershwin…The final movement has been played with excellent brio,
and did demonstrate beyond any doubt how accurate is Bacchetti in
translating even the smallest details of the dynamic articulation and
the tone graduation which were apt to be found in the score…Quick
passages, clear and perfectly fluid in the same time with their
feather-light touch had been joined to subtle nuances to give as
a final result a breathtaking painting…A colorful interpretation which
was permeated by numberless moods…The final "Tarantella"
epytomized the perfection, thus enclosing the entire concert in an
almost unbeatable quality judgment.
Brilliant
Bacchetti !
The Sunday Times - October 8th, 2000, Martina Caruana |
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the evening was at once characterized by the highly accomplished
performance of the pianist Andrea Bacchetti ... If for Bach and Mozart
Bacchetti embroidered celestial sounds with mature clarity and for
Beethoven displayed a smooth and rich sonority for Rossini - a welcome
homage to the genius loci - he portrayed an ironic and cheerful sparkle
... Enthusiastic and prolonged applause ... and encores.
Two Chopin and a Gershwin confirmed the magic talent of a splendid
artist.
Ente Concerti di Pesaro
An
accomplished Bacchetti opens the season
Il Resto del
Carlino -
November 3rd,
2000, lvana Baldassarri |
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…The twenty-three years old Genoese pianist has just released a
second portrait on CD, which witnesses a further step beyond on
the side of his artistical growth…Such intepretations reveal, together
with the consolidated technical qualities, a praiseworthy deepening on
the expressivity side…It’s well known that Chopin is far from being
an "easy" or "accessible" composer, not under a
plainly "technical" matter but under an anti-commonplace point
of view which firmly refuses the rusty incrustations generated by
decades of fake interpretations, brought by "finger-o-drome"
pianists (definition by Arthur Rubinstein). Bacchetti shows an admirable
rigour, considering that he’s just 23, which is joined to a
cherishable verve and vitality which defy the lurking risk, that
of a flat and equally misleading reading…
Bacchetti: My
Chopin in a CD
La Stampa - November 8th, 2000, Roberto Iovino |
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…Even if only twenty three years old, Andrea Bacchetti is already
an asserted pianist, and manages to enforce his presence simply by the
beauty and the firmness of his performances. Even for those who never
enjoyed him playing "live", it will be enough just to analyze
with objectivity this CD, which contains some excerpts taken from a
tenth of public recitals, to reveal Bacchetti as a great interpreter, as
an extremely sensitive distiller of excellent sounds, as a respectful
worshipper of the tradition created by the Sacred Monsters of the Golden
Age of Piano…a character with thousands of intellectual facets…
CD Un Portrait Vol. 2 –
Press Review
VideoRadio / 000385 / Fonola
Dischi Distribution / 1999, 2000 / DDD / Live
The Classic Voice nr. 20, December 2000, Piano e Forte, Luca Chierici |
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…He’s a young talent in concert, he’s appreciated especially
for the elegance of his touch joined to a continuous sound search.
Andrea Bacchetti literally hits the audience…with a great passion for
the instrument. The concert begins with the crystal-clear Prelude of a
Bach’s English Suite…the following Allemanda is an exquisite slow cadenza,
with continuously progressing chords, whilst the Corrente is played with
the right baroque reading. As a matter of fact, during the sixteenth
notes quick passages, Bacchetti always keeps the phrasing extremely
light, always unleashing the pure melody. Even the alternance of the
ternary themes in the concluding Giga is a real flash of sound
vitality…With Beethoven’s Sonata nr. 30 we are witnessing a gleaming
contrast of ideas, strengthened by Bacchetti in an extremely balanced
way of enhancing the differences in the timbric color of the
episodes…The same elegance and beauty are noticed, during the second
half of the concert, in a Chopin reading which proposes
"Berceuse", "Impromptu" and "Fantasia".
Every single detail is considered, every cue to play Music is valorized
by a magnificent view of the Romanticism…
Bacchetti’s great talent mesmerizes the audience
Il Giornale di Sicilia - December
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ANDREA
BACCHETTI - Official Web Site |
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PRESS REVIEWS 1999 / 2000