The Italian newspaper La Repubblica calls him almost the "most talented Bach pianist" in Italy, and Andrea Bacchetti has given concerts internationally on the world's largest classical music stages. When Bacchetti talks about Bach, he calls his music "his life, his day and his night". Hardly any other pianist manages to read Bach's music in such a modern and precise way as the interpreter from Genoa does. On his latest release, he has now devoted himself to the second part of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Piano Book, one of the key works of the Baroque era, on whose music Bacchetti has...
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica calls him almost the "most talented Bach pianist" in Italy, and Andrea Bacchetti has given concerts internationally on the world's largest classical music stages. When Bacchetti talks about Bach, he calls his music "his life, his day and his night". Hardly any other pianist manages to read Bach's music in such a modern and precise way as the interpreter from Genoa does. On his latest release, he has now devoted himself to the second part of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Piano Book, one of the key works of the Baroque era, on whose music Bacchetti has specialized for years. For example, his recording of unreleased Scarlatti sonatas won the ICMA Award. In this recording, too, Bacchetti knows how to provide Bach's musical microcosm with the necessary sharpness and thus complete a cycle that makes one sit up and take notice in his interpretation. CD 1: Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-12, BWV 870-881 CD 2: Preludes & Fugues Nos. 13-24, BWV 882-893 ANDREA BACCHETTI Very young, he reveals an extraordinary affi nity with music and is formed with advice from Karajan, Magaloff, Berio, Horzszowsky. He had his debut at the age of 11 in Milan with the Solisti Veneti directed by C. Scimone, beginning a prestigious international career, guest of the main festivals (Lucerne, Salzburg, Toulouse, Warsaw, Ravenna, etc.) and musical centers, including the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Auditorium Nacional in Madrid, the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, the Moscow State Philharmonic, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Gewandthaus in Leipzig. He plays with some of the major orchestras in the world and for the most important Italian concert associations, under the guidance of great conductors including Luisi, Flor, Baumgartner, Urbansky, Chung, Frantz, Lü Ja and others.
