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TOP		PRESS REVIEWS 2007


		… Andrea Bacchetti’s “pianismo”, already permanent guest of “Friends of music”, reaches summits of perfection and beauty in the touch of formal language of 19th century, displayed with the most lucid return of the humus of chamber music. Bacchetti, famous violoncellist Rocco Filippini’s partner, seems to inheriting entirely the most shining Italian mark, as much in the phrasing as in the sober approach to the strings … *Music, exceptional concert at the Asam with Bacchetti and the Cremona Quartet* Giornale di Sicilia - January 24^th, 2007 Corrado Genovese …Five talented artists who showed extraordinary interpretative and expressive qualities, and who received the most flattering approvals and the warmest applauses by the large audience: the string quartet from Cremona and the very young and very clever pianist Andrea Bacchetti… *Cremona Quartet and the pianist Andrea Bacchetti* At Carabelli Hall of Arcivescovado the ASAM inaugured his 43rd concert season La Libertà, Siracusa – 3^rd February 2007 Bernardino Zappa


		Applauses in mid-scene and big warm of the great right of music … On stage of the Gesualdo da Venosa Conservatory the pianist Andrea Bacchetti exhibited together with the historical formation of the Scala … In program pieces by Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, Dvorak. Many applauses and encores … Night of applauses and encores for the musicians of the Scala - Bacchetti and the string quartet at the Conservatory La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno - January 29^th, 2007


		… Andrea Bacchetti tonight is proposing his interpretation of Bach’s work … far away from the search for reproduction of sound and the idea of harpsichord, this is going to be a “more pianistic” Bach, with a light use of pedal that will make the execution more consonant to this instrument … Bach in Andrea Bacchetti’s hands Roma – 3^rd February 2007 Valentina Di Matteo From the starting area and along all Variations, Andrea Bacchetti showed as the Goldbergs are also beautiful to watch and not only to listen to. Seeing the nimble hands that fly on the keyboard with so much easiness is a show, like listening to that fall of sounds that those hands created… Bacchetti was able to underline in each moment the pureness of sound and the beauty of the whole work… A silent, concentrate audience, totally captured by Bach’s composing art and by Bacchetti’s interpretative one … *"MozArtBox", the curtain falls on classic music* Roma – 6^th February 2007 Valentina Di Matteo


		…the awaited meeting represented a real premiere for the audience of Taranto: Andrea Bacchetti’s first time in Taranto and the first time Goldberg Variations – the top of Bach’s experimentations in creating of musing for keyboard- instruments – are performed totally for piano. … *Andrea Bacchetti enchants with “Golberg Variatons”* Taranto Sera - 7^th February 2007 The pianist shows off his skinless, rigor and mastery, dexterity and lightness of execution, of touch… At the end of 75 minutes of uninterrupted music, great applauses and approvals of the numerous audience… *Andrea Bacchetti’s masterly performance* TarantOggi – 7^th February 2007 Gaetano Laudadio


		… a Mozart show absolutely unpublished and out of beaten patterns on the stage, next to the pianist Andrea Bacchetti – an old knowledge of the audience of Bergamo – the Genoese actor Luigi Maio, the “musicactor” …on stage the fairy and fantastic Mozart’s work par excellence: the Magic Flute… *The Magic Flute opens Quartetto Society* L’Eco di Bergamo – 11^th February 2007 Bernardino Zappa A jest, a joke. What originally is a fable, rich in metaphors and allegories, in Luigi Maio’s version becomes a play … an ironic version, conducted with undoubted mastery by Luigi Maio, while Andrea Bacchetti supported him with diligent, wise and faultless presence at piano, and was the object of some jests by the actor… *With the Quartet music becomes play* L’Eco di Bergamo – 14^th February 2007 Bernardino Zappa


		…one of the most broad-minded pianist but also attentive to the less known music of the past. Tonight at IUC he is offering a program dedicated to the keyboard Italian music of the end of ‘700 and ‘800 … We suggest Bacchetti, infrequent compositions on piano Il Messaggero – 6^th March 2007 Alfredo Gasponi IUC tonight proposes some of Cherubini’s Sonatas performed by the clever pianist Andrea Bacchetti, who has just recorded Cherubini’s “integrale” for keyboard, for the first time on a modern piano … *Cherubini and Rossini with Bacchetti’s piano* La Repubblica – 6^th March 2007 (landa ketoff) … Ingenious, very precocious, once he reached his maturity he allowed himself a nervous and unexhausted search in the literature for his instrument, that led him to explore – besides contemporary one – far authors like Bach, Debussy and Chopin … *The ingenious Andrea Bacchetti* L’Unità, Roma – 6^th March 2007 (landa ketoff) Besides some Rossini’s, Cimarosa’s and Clementi’s pages, the young pianist Andrea Bacchetti plays Luigi Cherubini ‘s Sonatas IV, V and VI, an unusual choice because the rediscovery of instrumental Cherubini happened very few decades ago through of epoch instruments, and moreover because the composer is more known for his lyric production… *Andrea Bacchetti on piano for Cherubini* Corriere della Sera – 6^th March 2007 A program that is more erudite and interesting rather than really balanced, that is a search for an uncommon and a bit enigmatic fund, and after all it comes from a pianist who distinguished himself for originality … In Bacchetti’s sound there is the ambition to beauty of colors that was got above all through the big easiness and elegance of his right hand; on one hand a taste which comes from an ancient and a bit obsolete tradition, on the other one a stylistic research that looks, also in the varied “riprese”, at the latest orientations. *In Bacchetti’s sign* Il Manifesto - 9^th March 2007 Arrigo Quattrocchi … specialized in contemporaneousness, he is very appreciated by Pierre Boulez, and he is perhaps the most clever in Luciano Berio’s piano music… the extraordinary Andrea Bacchetti’s soft and soft touch and his being Italian put the young Cherubini’s sonatas next to Cimarosa’s smiling ‘700, more than Clementi’s already romantic “pianismo”. … *Appointments… in the capital* La Voce di Roma e Provincia – 15^th March 2007 Paola Pariset …the young pianist set Cherubini’s Sonatas in the serene grace of Italian harpsichordists … highlighting their gracefulness with his incomparable touch, as pure as a caress that – even in the greatest technical difficulties offered somewhere else by the composers of ‘900 – always leads us to a superior harmony … *Andrea Bacchetti at “La Sapienza” University* Ragioni Socialiste, Roma – March 2007 Paola Pariset



		Bacchetti is “interesting” in the very approach to the instrument and to its literature, in the formation and in the referring to precise numens of piano firmament, in the fund and at last in the way he plays, which gives him an authentic peculiarity in a crowded but rather homogeneous … Bacchetti prefers the “frammento” and those little forms that converge and gather around a centre, like lazy snapshots of a particular moment. What charms him of these forms is the perfect structure, which tallies with an assiduous work on sound and on the recurrence of “incisi” and timbres. His present interest for J. S. Bach comes from here … an author he proposed more and more often, within monographic concerts he is asked for a bit everywhere and especially by important musical international institutions. … *Andrea Bacchetti at Venezze Palace* Il Resto del Carlino – 18^th March 2007 Sergio Garbato Precision, temper, fine taste … totally captured by each execution, Bacchetti adopted an always elegant yet strong sonority, aiming to highlight the faultless phrasing, the precision of technique and the mature taste, even in the most stringent sections as far as rhythm is concerned, till to the explosion of virtuosity of the last piece. Andrea Bacchetti’s precision and taste at the Venezze Il Gazzettino – 20^th March 2007 Sofia Teresa Bisi … a pianist who is to leave a mark thanks to an unmistakable musical personality and to the ability to link the inheritance of the big masters with the taste of contemporaneousness. … To act as an underlying theme and to lead back the whole to an authentic unity of style and expression, a phrasing (but we would like to say a “dizione”) literally fabulous, soft and assertive at the same time, able to redefine and shade a sharp enough sonority. … the stylistic fullness of a player who reads again the fund with a prophet’s eye. *An extraordinary Beethoven’s and Debussy’s reading again* Il Resto del Carlino – 20^th March 2007 Sergio Garbato


		The pianist Andrea Bacchetti is performing Cimarosa’s, Cherubini’s, Clementi’s, Rossini’s pieces. During the evening his latest CD is being presenting, Luigi Cherubini’s Sei Sonate, for the first time in the world on modern piano, produced by Sony on RCA label… *An extraordinary concert with Bacchetti’s Cherubini* Il Secolo XIX, Savona – 23^rd March 2007


		… a pianist who never renounces to search and never stops in front of the obvious, also with a courage that must be underlined… because wandering between Beethoven and Chopin, between Schumann and Brahms is not a simple matter, but at least he has on his side the author’s and pages’ popularity. However is definitely another matter displaying in this sequence Cimarosa and Cherubini, Scarlatti, Clementi and Rossini… Bacchetti passed through their compositions with a confident gesture, with a musicality that was communicative by instinct, a fine measure of style but rigorous instrumental evidence, unraveling Scarlatti’s melodic sweetness such as Clementi’s structural ambitions with neat analytic evidence and soft richness of sound … *From Scarlatti to Rossini Bacchetti’s brave notes* Il Giornale di Vicenza – 14^th April 2007 Cesare Galla






















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