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PRESS REVIEWS  2006

 

Bacchetti is a huge talent, without having a full awareness of this fact… he faces the piano with fury, while he is singing he transforms himself … he involves (us) in the listening thanks to a continuous richness of emotional contrasts, to the naturalness of the pianistic timbre and without glorying in his – yet impeccable – tecnique... 
 
Il Piccolo  - January 25th,  2006   Bacchetti at the Sdc   c.ghe


A great quartet of strings and a Genoese pianist on the stage of the Carlo Felice. …    Bacchetti, what is this Shostakovic quintet like? “Complex and minimal at the same time. The part of the piano, if we compare it with the one of the quintets by Brahms or Schumann, is built with extreme cheapness but it isn’t less rich in inventions. It alternates moments of gloomy sadness with others of great poetry resulting in grotesque accents …”
 
Il Secolo XIX, Genoa  - February 12th, 2006   Prazak Quartet and Bacchetti at Gog, homage to Shostakovic  A.Cz.


... Vigorous reading … confidence of expressive transitions and faceted resources of timbre. To conclude, a taut and substantive execution oscillating between rhythmical emphasis and ethereal lyrism ...
 
Il Secolo XIX, Genoa  - February 15th, 2006   Prazak and Bacchetti convince with Shostakovic  W. Edwin Rosasco


... a Chamber program of sure artistic and documentary interest … a very pleasant listening thanks to a performance that is ardent and rich of romantic paints … the contribute of the moderate and flexible “pianismo” of the emerging Genoese artist Andrea Bacchetti is determinant ...
 
Alto Adige, Bolzano - February 18th, 2006  Prazak with Andrea Bacchetti shows us Zemlinsky’s music  A.Bambace


... Von Karajan se lo llevó entonces como a un Mozart niño por las salas de conciertos de media Europa. Ahora, cargado de premios y experiencia, está considerado el mejor interprete de Berio. Le encanta la música contemporanea casi tanto como adora a Bach. Con Acilu, dice, le parece tener a ambos unidos en la misma partitura. ...  

Diario de Navarra
  -  18 de febrero 2006
El navarro Acilu estrena su 'Concierto para piano y orquesta N.2 en Madrid   Maria Antonia Estevez


... Gonzáles Acilu es músico y pensador. Se advierte en su obra siempre trazada bajo esa difícil condición de lo coherente y lo sensato. Le sucede, por ejemplo, a su segundo concierto para piano, que acaba de escucharse en Madrid. Sabe González Acilu que el presente está dominado por un arte que quiere redescubrir el "sentir". De ahí el cúmulo de detalles que el estupendo Andrea Bacchetti, la Orquesta de RTVE y Josep Vicent apoyaron. ... 

ABC, Madrid
  -  27 de febrero 2006   Clásica - Ciclo Sinfónica de la ORTVE   Alberto Gonzalez Lápuente


... In front of a large audience of guests, Rocco Filippini performed in a duo with Andrea Bacchetti,  a Genoese pianist still very young but already boasting a career of three lustres ... 
 
La Provincia, Cremona  - February 28th, 2006   Stauffer of wonders    Roberto Codazzi


Filippini and Bacchetti were excellent performers of the concert organized by Stauffer … two extraordinary soloists who successfully proposed a particularly substantial and varied program ...
 
La Cronaca, Cremona  - February 28th, 2006   Extraordinary virtuosities on a string    Eleonora Olivi


... Filippini, virtuous of worldwide fame, largely applauded together with the excellent pianist Andrea Bacchetti...
 
La Voce, Cremona  - March 1st, 2006   First audition of “Stauffer 1700”   Marcello Tosi


... Andrea Bacchetti comes from Liguria like Berio, who esteemed him very much, and even if he isn’t thirty years old, yet, he won important prices and he is invited all over the world ...
 
La Repubblica, Rome - March 15th, 2006   Bach’s English Suites with Andrea Bacchetti’s piano   Landa Ketoff


Andrea Bacchetti, the infallible. The fact , almost an axiom, that the Genoese pianist doesn’t make mistakes – he can’t do it – hits us with the authenticity of evidence … protagonist of an outstanding concert which already on paper revealed the interpreter’s sharp intelligence  and that in practice proved his stature as an executor ...
 
L'Adige, Rovereto - March 31st, 2006   Bacchetti, a really infallible pianist   Emilia Campagna


... A strong artistic personality, an artist with a vehement charisma, Bacchetti becomes a giant at the keyboard, able to draw unprecedented sonorities from the instrument ...
 
Il Giornale di Sicilia, Catania - April 9th, 2006   Giant Bacchetti face to face with Bach and Berio   Aldo Mattina


... Bacchetti shows almost “maniacal” determination and precision in his execution, and shows himself in all his preciosity … He seems to neglect the rest and to concentrate all himself on his extremities on contact with the piano. And the result – it’s almost obvious to say    leaves us open-mouthed.
 
Il Domani, Catanzaro - April 9th, 2006   Piano and other in program   Carmen Loiacono


... Bacchetti’s amazing performance at De Nobili Palace last Friday … a continuous search for perfection by a pianist who, going by his performance, seems already to be perfect
 
Il Quotidiano, Catanzaro  - April 12th, 2006   At the De Nobili with Bacchetti    Anna Trapasso


... Stylistic authority and fantasy of touch, as if he put himself in the wake traced by Glenn Gould. Bacchetti developed a real instinct for ornamentations that seems to arise spontaneously from his fingers … every single note has a precise reason, its own collocation and sense ...
 
L'Arena, Verona  - April 12th, 2006   The young Bacchetti is all concentration   Chiara Zocca


On 27th April, Thursday, for the 36th Concert Season organized by “Friends of Music Association”, Rocco Filippini and Andrea Bacchetti performed some of the most beautiful compositions for cello and piano … a substantial and firm sound, skillness and precision, those were the uncommon elements of the success of the concert ...
 
Foggia & Foggia  -  May 5th, 2006   The duet Filippini – Bacchetti at the “Del Fuoco” theatre    Simona Benvenuti


... Last 27th April two excellent musicians of different generations kept a wonderful concert … the great violoncellist Rocco Filippini,  and the young but already popular pianist Andrea Bacchetti.

A performance of very high stylistic level, the pianist Bacchetti centred Beethoven’s style and talked with the violoncellist in a professional and musical way. ...
 
Musica e Scuola  -  Year XX nr.11, June 15th, 2006   Filippini – Bacchetti duet ...    Michele Gioiosa


Pour célébrer le 30e anniversaire de leur club, les Soroptimistes luchonnaises ont invité, le 20 mai prochain, le jeune pianiste virtuose international, Andréa Bacchetti, pour un récital exceptionnel qui aura lieu au théatre Du Casino de Luchon ...
 
La Dépeche du Midi, Luchon  - 5 mai 2006   Andréa Bacchetti jouera pour les 30 ans des Soroptimistes    C.S.


... Alors qu'il poursuit une brillante carrière internationale (Prix Amadeus 2005, 5 étoiles de la Musique), Bacchetti revient à Luchon où il a donné son premier et prodigieux concert public, à l'age de 9 ans en 1986. C'était il ya 20 ans. C'est dire l'émotion qui régnera à ce concert. 
 
La Dépeche du Midi (supplément week-end)  - 18 mai 2006   Andréa Bacchetti pianiste d'exception a Luchon   


... Este extraordinario músico dio su primer concierto en Luchon, descubierto por M. Edmond Rosenfeld, pianista y Director de Orquesta, quien se quedó impresionado ante el talento de Andrea. Desde entonces, Andrea Bacchetti ha desarrollado una brillante carrera musical ... 
Gracias, Andrea Bacchetti, por su sensibilidad, por su talento, y por habernos hecho gozar de unos momentos m
ágicos con su música. Le deseamos siga cosechando grandes éxitos.
 
TOT ARAN  - 28 de mayo 2006   Concierto de Andrea Bacchetti en Luchon   


Un public debout et enthousiaste, dans une salle comble, a acclamé le jeune pianiste Andréa Bacchetti qui, pendant plus de deux heures, a tenu l'assistance sous le charme de sa virtuosité. Outre son talent révélé dans ses interprétations de Bach et de Mozart, son interprétation des oeuvres romantiques avec Mendelssohn et surtout ce magnifique nocturne de Chopin déchaina l'enthousiasme des spectateurs. ... 
 
La Dépeche du Midi  - 30 mai 2006   Concert: Andréa Bacchetti a fait un triomphe   


... Andrea Bacchetti appeared in public for a monumental engagement with the power  of his skills of excellent virtuoso, of a striking cleverness to concentrate and a prodigious memory … Bacchetti’s technical qualities and his temper gave an effective reading to the elegance of the phrasing and of the marvellous fusion between melodic virtuosity and canonical invention, letting him have a huge efficacy, passionate and without breakdowns ... 
 
La Voce di Mantova - May 14th, 2006 
Andrea Bacchetti’s talent and temper for Bach’s musical universe
  Guido Mario Pavesi


... Goldberg Variations are among the most important and difficult Bach’s works: in particular it isn’t easy to give an answer to that demand that today we call “about communication”, because the work clearly arises from intellectual speculation. Now, the way found by Bacchetti, a pianist endowed with an iron technical and emotional control, consists of a long road of reflection, made of sonorities, tempered and without excesses beats, absolute and anti-spectacular concentration, without compromises...
 
La Gazzetta di Mantova - May 20th, 2006   Applauses for Bacchetti  Andrea Zaniboni


... An engrossing interpretation of Bach’s exacting Goldberg Variations  by the young pianist Andrea Bacchetti … more than ninety minutes of great music, with all varied refrains … a very lively success.
 
Musica e Scuola  -  Year XX nr.15, September 15th, 2006   Mantova    Dino Gatti


Essential in his introductions, in the ceremonial, unadorned in his look and resolute in the sound, measured in his expressiveness and immediate, almost forerunner in the phrasism. Andrea Bacchetti tastefully “grinds” his music at the piano… He seems to prefer those author who “declare” rather than those who “sing”, the clean lightness of the voices which overlap and which may create slightly aggressive ( he used this adjective) speeches, but always clear and rigorous. So in Johann Sebastian Bach, finished speeches - but with the chance to be without an end - cerebral clearness, dosage of means.  ... 
 
Corriere di Novara - May 22th, 2006   Bacchetti and those authors who declare   a.v.


... an unbroken dialogue between piano and orchestra, the famous “Jeunehomme” K271 is a concert formally full of surprises and uneasy to render in his shades; but Andrea Bacchetti hasn’t problems at all, neither technical nor interpretative ones  ...
 
Brescia Oggi - May 24th, 2006   Double Mozart to be applauded   l.f.


... Unusual as for proportions, unceasing richness of musical ideas and formal innovations, K271 was rendered with confidence and neatness by Bacchetti, a very young talent at Brescia and Bergamo Festival and (he is) at present time an expert musician as a principal with orchestras. The dialogue with the Orchestra of the Olimpico is precise and clear ...
 
Il Giornale di Brescia - May 24th, 2006   Precious Bacchetti   Fulvia Conter


Bound to “Verdi” Orchestra as a honorary director, Luciano Berio has always reserved a particular consideration to the Ensemble, which commemorates him, three years after his death, through a concert directed by Nicoletta Conti, with the pianist Andrea Bacchetti and Fausto Ghiazza  ... 
 
Vivi Milano,  - May 24th, 2006   Berio’s art re-sounds “Encore”    d.z.


... a concert by musicians who are strongly tied to their master. The pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who offers some classic pieces like Encores, Rounds and the Petit Suite, the clarinettist Fausto Ghiazza and Nicoletta Conti’s stick...
 
La Repubblica, Milano  - May 27th, 2006   The Verdi commemorates Luciano Berio    ldf


Instinct and reason. Within music it is a slight balance, in a continuous transformation, yet the whole interpreter’s game is played between these two opposites, like his search for a sense, too. Pianist’s job is a difficult one. Andrea Bacchetti, enfant- prodige endowed with an unique instinctive musicality, on the brink of thirty years is picking up the fruits of brave and solitary choices, which led him to inquire into Bach’s fund on one hand, and into the contemporaries on the other ...
 
La Prealpina - May 27th, 2006   Bacchetti pays homage to Berio    Luca Segalla


... in order to play four of Six Encores, Rounds, and the Petit Suite the pianist Andrea Bacchetti is arriving… he was Berio’s discipule-friend, to whom he dedicated also a CD that became a benchmark. But Bacchetti doesn’t want to be labelled as a “specialist” and he reminds us that Bach’s English Suites are his latest CD ...
 
Il Giorno (Lombardia) - May 27th, 2006   Bacchetti pays homage to Berio   A.M.


… tonight at the Auditorium the Verdi Orchestra is paying homage to Luciano Berio … at the piano, of course, Andrea Bacchetti. “Of course” because, together with Lucchesini, Bacchetti represent Berio’s landmark “pianismo”, (he) frequently attended (him) from 1989 to a few days from his death and today (it is) the trustee of master’s pianistic bequest ...
 
Il Giornale, Milano - May 27th, 2006   The Verdi Orchestra celebrates master Berio   Piera Anna Franini


Luciano Berio died on May 27th, 2003. Tonight, after three exact years, the Verdi Orchestra commemorates him with a special concert … in the second part, the orchestra is giving up the stage to Andrea Bacchetti, who is executing the “Six encores pour piano” and “Rounds per piano solo”...
 
Corriere della Sera, Milano - May 27th, 2006   Homage to Berio with Brahms and Weill    e.pa.


... in the second part the faultless Andrea Bacchetti performed four of “Six Encores” for piano, "Rounds" (dedicated by Berio to the composer and orchestra director Marcello Panni) and the "Petit Suite" for piano ...
 
L'Opera, anno XX, n. 20  June 6th, 2006   Homage to Luciano Berio    Giacomo di Vittorio


... Brilliant, witty, the Ligurian pianist flows from a concert to the other, in Italy and in Europe, but he found the time to grant an interview.  
Bacchetti, what will be your Bach like? I play Bach with a rigorous but romantic set up, and I try to put something personal, choosing a happy medium between brain and heart: the sublime science of musical building must be filtered by the player’s humanity, it must be a point of introspection. And this introspection, for its nature, is subjective ...
 
Il Gazzettino, Vicenza - June 16th, 2006   Bacchetti, ex child genius, performs Bach   F.L.


... at Sorrento Festival the magic of Scala Quartet … close to them (there is) the important presence of  a virtuoso piano, Andrea Bacchetti, a sensitive and refined soloist. ...
 
www.ildenaro.it/eventi - July 23th, 2006   Andrea Bacchetti at Sorrento Festival


Tonight the Pontino Festival comes back to Sperlonga with Andrea Bacchetti, with the concert “From Bach to Chopin: some famous pages”. ...
 
La Provincia, Sermoneta - July 27th, 2006   Classics for Piano    Fabio Pedone


... a piano and a performer with a fine touch, style, elegance and passionateness: it’s Andrea Bacchetti who plays, a topmost musician who, when he was very young, enchanted Herbert Von Karajan and surprised Berio ...
 
Latina Oggi - July 27th, 2006   A piano from Bach to Chopin    F.D.G.


Last guest of Amfiteatrof Festival in Levanto (last but not least), on Sant’Andrea’s parvis, the pianist Andrea Bacchetti played and delighted the audience with Bach’s,  Debussy’s and Chopin’s music ...
 
Il Secolo XIX  - August 13th, 2006   Levanto, delicacies at Andrea Bacchetti’s piano   M.G.


Andrea Bacchetti, one of the most beautiful names of Italian concerts is performing tomorrow in Moneglia in the historical “Dei Disciplinanti” Oratory: a concert which represents one of the most remarkable events in the musical showing promoted by Felice Romani Associations ...
 
Il Secolo XIX  - August 23rd, 2006   Bacchetti in concert in Moneglia


Guido Ghetti and Andrea Bacchetti are the protagonists of the concert that is being held tonight in the Corelli Hall of the Alighieri …Ghetti, musician from Ravenna, is the first oboe of the Carlo Felice in Genoa, the pianist Andrea Bacchetti has several concerts to his credit in Italy and abroad ...
 
Il Resto del Carlino, Ravenna -  September 28th, 2006  Concert and Symposium dedicated to the re-emerged “oboe”


A new appointment with “Concerts and Symposia 2006” … musicologist Franco Masotti’s meeting; a concert by Guido Ghetti (oboe) and Andrea Bacchetti (piano) with Robert Schumann’s and Luciano Berio’s pieces will follow 
 

Corriere di Ravenna  - September 28th, 2006   Oboe and piano for Schumannn and Berio   (al.fo.)


... The cycle of autumnal concerts dedicated to four Robert Schumann’s symphonies and five concerts for piano and orchestra by Ludwig Van Beethoven begins again: tomorrow Lawrence Renes is going on the podium of the Carlo Felice Orchestra, while in the Second Concert the leader will be Andrea Bacchetti, a pianist who is well-known by genoese audience and who is very famous today in Italy and abroad ...
 
Il Secolo XIX, Genoa  -  October 5th, 2006  Renes and Bacchetti, a night of stars at the Carlo Felice  E. W. Rosasco


... Andrea Bacchetti, a genius when he was a child and also now, with the exquisite sensitivity that distinguishes every time his performances in equilibrium between brain and heart, with intelligent and personal expertise; a face to face with the piano that remains intimate but it is able to transmit the unforgettable feelings given by a fine taste...
 

Il Giornale  - October 6th, 2006   Emotions at the piano with Bacchetti and Beethoven   Barbara Catellani


... announced and deserved triumph for Andrea Bacchetti … a young performer with lots of thing to tell, with a marked sensitivity for Bach’s corpus, with a fine skill to elaborate the touch that we could enjoy in Beethoven’s Second Concert next to Lawrence Renes’ podium. It seems that Andrea Bacchetti wanted to connote this score because of debits to Mozart rather than for the possible nineteenth-century far-sightednesses; with articulations of “fortepianistico” taste and with oasis of “cantabilità” and reverberations of powerful poetry …Profusion of encores dissolved in a sea of applauses, also by Carlo Felice Orchestra, which manifested its consent beating hands and fiddlesticks ...
 

Corriere Mercantile  - October 8th, 2006   Andrea Bacchetti carried shoulder-high   Giorgio De Martino


Andrea Bacchetti, piano and Elena Belfiore, mezzo-soprano, will be the protagonists of the closing concert of “Caro Amadeus” … Bacchetti was warmly applauded just last Friday at the Carlo Felice as inspired performer of Beethoven’s Concert n.2, rendered with elegance of phrasing and an admirable control of the sound ...
 
La Repubblica, Genoa  - October 11th, 2006   Beethoven’s nights    Roberto Iovino


... charitable musical marathon begun on 5th December 2005, the celebrations for Mozart are going to be closed tonight by the mezzo-soprano Elena Belfiore and the pianist Andrea Bacchetti’s concert. During this occasion the “Caro Amadeus” Culture Price will be given to these executors  ...
 

Il Secolo XIX  - October 12th, 2006   A concert closes Amadeus Project


... Andrea Bacchetti eludes all the consecrated ways, from the virtuose to the contemplative – philosophical ones (those by Schiff, for example) and opts for the easiness of dictation and for the anti-virtuosity, and the “inventio” of the sound becomes the pianistic central element in his executive proposal. … Particularly intent to “melos” and to “legato timbrico”, his speech flows like very pure water, a slippery colour, a cloud that flows in the hall and isolates the piano in a suffused singing, one thousand miles far away from that Bach displayed, marked off in millimetres, of many performers that celebrate themselves and their own style … 
An admirable poetry of sound which gives back Bach according to never heard canons with such an interior strength, where the crystal-clear pureness of young Bacchetti’s personality and of his incessant self-criticism converge. Then the poeticality of the evening is a mature fruit, the ultimate achievement of his executive style

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Musica e Scuola - Year XX n. 17 - October 15th, 2006 A Bach overspread with poetry by Andrea Bacchetti   E. Fantin


… in the performance of “Quintetto in Fa minore op. 34” by Brahms, Andrea Bacchetti’s piano got prominence within the moderate pace of the group, a vented expressiveness, opposite to the continuous control of the interpretation … Entranced audience with exclamations in mid-scene …
 
Il Gazzettino, Udine - October 27th, 2006   Quartet and pianist, entranced audience    Lucia Ludovica de Nardo


The opening of  85th season of concerts with a serious program but with great effect.The agreement between the quartet and the piano is excellent and it makes richer the already luxuriant chromatic palette showed by the Venetian ensemble. In this Brahms Bacchetti’s “pianismo” reveals to be of high standing … Exceptional emotional strength in the ending, and great liking of the audience …


 

Il Messaggero Veneto  - November 15th, 2006   Strings of Venice: a beautiful opening   Sergio Zolli


... … the very clever Andrea Bacchetti isn’t famous only for his perfection in performing Berio’s music (so much to be his trustee), but for the clearness and the beauty of his executions of Bach, whose he entirely played two Suites … a really unique performance
 

casertamusica.com - December 15th, 2006  Musical autumn: Luciano Berio’s piano works   Pia Di Donato


... Benedetto Scimemi, mathematician, in his very interesting prolusion to Andrea Bacchetti’s concert at the Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, revealed the uncommon presence of symmetrical structures, thick with mathematical and geometrical references in the changing processes of Goldberg Variations by Bach, even if the listener at once loses these footprints, taken by the whirl of an invention that seems to be without an end (“a music that doesn’t know neither a beginning nor an end are”, so Glenn Gould speaks) … Bacchetti offers a definitely personal reading, erudite as far as style is concerned … with a natural phrasing like an improvisation, without neglecting neither the rigour of the harmonic structure nor the characterization of the timbre. The contrapuntal plot, at the summit of Bach’s mastery, always remains neat and intelligible, lacking of virtuous behaviours. Very hearty success and as much as five encores.
 

Il Gazzettino, Udine - gazzettino.quinordest.it   December 28th, 2006  Goldberg Variations with fantasy   Eddi De Nadai


 

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