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An original and peculiar programme, a well-focused and sensible performer...the protagonist, the Genoese pianist Andrea Bacchetti, cheered and applauded... The
first half of the recital was completely dedicated to Bach, whilst the
second half hosted – for the first time in Messina – some pages from
Berio’s Six Encores, from Julian Scriabin’s four Preludes as well as
a Mozart’s Sonata. Confident and praiseworthy performance by
Bacchetti, who confirmed himself once more as a sensitive and
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It was a first-class programme, even on an intellectual point of view,
the one which was proposed by Andrea Bacchetti (already winner of Venice
Prize) at the Malibran, hosted by the Venetian Concerts Society: Bach,
Berio, Mozart and a sparkling encores selection which jumped from
Chopin to Bach, from Debussy to Gershwin and back again to Chopin.
Bacchetti loves the abstractions, the black-and-whites, the connections
between the Eighteenth- and the Twentieth centuries. Bach and Berio
explain this mental choice of him... Bacchetti prefers the Reason’s
pleasures, he explores the Eighteenth century throughout his
twentieth-century liaisons, he tries to catch the continuum
between past and present always respecting the philological approach... |
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...high profile occasions, like the one dedicated to the concerts for piano and orchestra, performed by the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese directed by Mario Zanini... The
twenty-seven-years old pianist Andrea Bacchetti, breast-fed with Berio’s
music, offered a majestic performance of the wonderful Concert nr. 4 in
G maj op. 58, full of dire difficulties but of lyrical recourses as
well; Bacchetti’s dense touch is as always framed into feverish virtuoso
outbursts... |
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Three final encores put the seal on the cheered concert that the cellist Rocco Filippini and the pianist Andrea Bacchetti performed last Mondey evening at Carlo Felice Theatre, hosted by G.O.G. (Giovine Orchestra Genovese – Young Genoese Orchestra) ... The two-soloists performance was to be noticed especially for their ability to propose extremely different scores with the same hearty approach, cleaned up from mere exhibitionisms and on the contrary focused on a clean and sharp definition of the main characterising outlines of each score... ...Filippini’s
analytic clearness and experience melted at their best with Bacchetti
contained but sharp sound expression, and the result is of a mesmerising
brilliance... |
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Immer wieder überrascht
die Sonthofer Gesellschaft "Freunde der Musik" ihre Mitglieder
mit hochkarätigen Konzerten. Jüngst
waren die Musikfreunde im Hotel "Allgäu-Stern"
zusammengekommen, um mit Andrea Bacchetti einen aus zwei vorangegangenen
Konzerten schon wohl bekannten Pianisten von internationalem Ruf zu hören. |
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... pianist Andrea Bacchetti has just begun the three-year performing of
the six "French suites" and the six "English suites"
... It seems that Bacchetti found in Bach a personal election world,
made up both with a meditational factor (the Sarabande, sometimes
delayed in time and often even just whispered) and also with joyful,
living glimpses ... really overjoyed, with a hint of nobleness but
nonetheless happy and alive, the way in which Bacchetti performed the
two gavottes in the English suite nr. 6. The twenty-seven years old
pianist overflows with energy, which he lavishes in every rythmically
alive pages ... |
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Bacchetti plays Bach on a real illuministic vocation, finding the way of being - in the same time - both modern and ancient. The clarity of the formal analysis ... just equals the sparkling fraseggio and the fully expressive characterisation lavished on the dances which constitute the spinal cord of the Suites ... The choice of the piano is accepted without limits. Bacchetti asks the Grand Piano for what the harpsichord simply couldn't deliver: the dynamic outweighing, the strong accents, the multifaceted articulation, the soft brushing of the pedals. And Bacchetti doesn't crave for a simple imitation of the harpsichord, because the sound which comes out of the piano is round, nice, even singable ... Deafening
applauses and three encores ... Il Piccolo, Monfalcone - April 6th, 2004, Sergio Cimarosti |
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... Beethoven's Concert nr. 2 op. 19 for piano and orchestra, often
considered - wrongly - undemanding, as a matter of fact is brief but
extremely difficult, also because the definitive B-flat beat had been
written long after the first performance - in which it was simply
improvised - and it's really a fast beat, "almost devilish" as
Bacchetti himself called it ... |
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Andrea Bacchetti is a young pianist with both a noticeable curiosity and a musical appetite, and he's kind of a character as well. Born Genoese, a skinny and glass-eyed boy, was noticed by Von Karajan, who was always very keen on young musicians ... and has thereafter become "protegé" of Berio's and many other musicians and producers like Horszowsky, Siciliani and Magaloff. For sure, Bacchetti isn't a "muscle" pianist, on the contrary both his technique and sound are singing and flexible, and this allows him to have a wide repertoire, going from Bach to contemporary music ... The
Philharmonic's cycle is dedicated to Chopin, so the pianist of Liguria
will be able to perform in the "Berceuse" and in the
"Four Improvvisi", scores which have been since long in his
repertoire and which he already recorded... |
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... There are two actors in the playbill, Bach and
Berio, in a comparison that reflects the sense itself of Bologna festival,
and that show – even though in the evolution of language and forms –
the whole story of music. Bach in the opening and in the closing of the
night ... in the middle that Berio to whom Bacchetti dedicated an
important part of his care, getting significant recognitions. |
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Great success for the third
appointment with Autumnal Concerts ... the piano performance by the young
Andrea Bacchetti was perfect ... |
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Otro joven pianista de
la Academia que està destacàndose con mucha fuerza es Andrea Bacchetti,
que se està perfeccionando con Franco Scala. Nacido en Génova, dedicado
desde muy joven al piano, cuerta hoy con un repertorio extremadamente
amplio que se extiende de Bach hasta Luciano Berio. De hecho, el gran
compositor ligur ha querido Bacchetti dedicar un reciente CD monogràfico,
publicado por Decca. ... |
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The
excellent quartet made up of the pianist Andrea Bacchetti and the strings
trio of Toscanini Philharmonic was the brilliant protagonist of the
concert... ...Mozart’s pages in which the instruments become the voices
of a real dialogue. Andrea
Bacchetti, whose “mercurial” musicality can change itself in these
pages in a positive centre of movement, gave a vivid and eloquent voice to
these characters, in a happy mix of instrumental and interpretative skill
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Fifteen
years of concert career, from 1989 to now, that led the ex-enfant prodige
(today a popular pianist) to reap successes in Europe, South America and
Japan: to celebrate the 27 years old Genoese pianist, the GOG cared for
the publication of a commemorative
CD that is being presented tomorrow afternoon at Tursi Palace, with a
concert by Bacchetti himself ... |
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...
the night, with Boulez
himself conducting the exceptional musicians of the Ensemble
Interconterporain, turns into a “totally Berio” that enchants – it
seems without reserves – the audience of the Conservatory. ... the
performers show a sober and very pure musical intelligence. The show of
exactness. Valerio Adami, Pierre Boulez, Umberto Eco, Renzo Piano, Enzo Restagno. They are all there, in a circle, on the stage of Puccini Hall at Milan Conservatory. They celebrate their friend Luciano Berio, who died on 27th May one year ago. Francesco Micheli invited them, the artificer of this round table and, to follow, in Verdi Hall, of the concert with Berio’s music pieces. The appointment was opened by Six Encores with Andrea Bacchetti on the piano, and closed by Folk Songs. A satisfied and clapping
audience, an extraordinary answer for a program of contemporary music ... ...
In the Erdenklavier
(which Andrea Bacchetti played as well as only few other pianists can do),
behind resonances of pure “armonici” a ghost of theme is moving. … |
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Do
you want a Berio who is “more Berio” than the one Luciano Berio
himself would have liked? Send for Andrea Bacchetti. The little boy who
was noticed when he was 12 years old in Saltsburg and was elected at once
as a pianistic alter ego. … The piano, leader instrument of romantic
season, has little space in the modern one. However, Luciano Berio
cultivates it, as if he would like to give it to the very young player who
is dazzled by the psychological lucidity of the new language. In
order to disclose to him the present, to become his maitre à penser. And
Bacchetti, 26 years old, says thank you by making the master live again.
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The
duo Rocco Filippini, cello, and Andrea Bacchetti, piano, was the artificer
of the music show promoted by The Friends of Music at the San Pietro in
Ortigia Auditorium. … Filippini’s sound is limpid and has an
incredible charm of timbre, similar to the typically Italian taste … the
first approach with the fine master of cello is Bach’s contrapuntal one,
through the “Sonata n.1” in major sol which – in its form moved to
piano – finds in Bacchetti an excellent translator of “basso
continuo”. … In
the second part of the program the sparkling performance of Chopin –
“Introduzione e polonese brillante” – lights a new flame in the
audience
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For concert season
2004-2005 of Etnea Musical Association, the cellist Rocco Filippini and
the pianist Andrea Bacchetti were much-appreciated guests. The clapping
audience – which with its numerous presences made the Biscari Palace
sold out – remained literally captured by the involving program and by
the charm of the communicativeness that emanated from the duet in a
wonderful symbiosis. … And if in Filippini we admired also the big
instrumental control, the reasoned stylistic rigor and the clearness of
sound, the young Bacchetti found on this hand the liveliest outburst and
always reasonably functional energies. But the most important fact is that
he never degenerates in star exuberances, even when the keyboard cold give
him the temptation, since the transcriptions themselves, due to the
cellist, rewarded the piano very much. |
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The
favorite relationship that Andrea Bacchetti could keep with Berio is
known. With this CD Bacchetti pays homage to the composer and to the
master that had so much importance for his professional growth offering a
choice of his pieces for piano. … In
the cover notes Bacchetti make us remind how much Berio taught him about
the style of execution of the so-called contemporary music and this
recording expresses, even at the first listening, all the attention and
depth of the interpretative work. … With a self-devotion that we could
define “total” Bacchetti aims at mirroring the virtuosity of Berio’s
writing in a limpid virtuosity of execution. |
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Also
“enfant prodige” grow up. Someone doesn’t succeed in keeping the
promises of a spontaneous talent, which rose when he was a little child,
while some others mature with awareness. This is Andrea Bacchetti’s
case, whose interpretative thickness is one of the most interesting
pianistic realities of our years, one who didn’t get above himself
despite the exuberant collection of international successes and the
approval f guru like Luciano Berio, who elected him absolute-level
performer of his own music. Contemporary language for Andrea Bacchetti is
a deep choice. And
it is also a reversed spyglass on romantic music, of which he is a
sensitive player, and on the ancient fund. ... |
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...
Andrea Bacchetti faced a
piano program totally about Beethoven with a tangible expressive
intensity, fed by an interpretative look, which went beyond the
definitions that go together with these sonatas … bringing to the
surface those funding traits. … Through that dynamic feature that seems
to mark this player’s “pianismo”, Bacchetti was able to give a sense
of balance to the musical dictation… eventually the big quantity of
applauses got him to give three pieces out of the program that had a Bach
taste. ... |
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PRESS REVIEWS 2004