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Bach & Bach-Busoni: Keyboard Works / Colli
Chandos

Bach & Bach-Busoni: Keyboard Works / Colli

$21.99

Details

Composer
BACH, J.S.
Artist
Federico Colli
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Jan 04, 2019
Catalog #
CHAN 20079
UPC
095115207925

About

Known for his highly imaginative and philosophical approaches to his musical presentations, Federico Colli is back with a second album on Chandos. Having begun with Scarlatti sonatas, he now turns his hand to the great master J.S. Bach to explore the relationship between Bach’s music for keyboard and what Colli regards as its transcendent quality, its universal beauty. In a personal note for the booklet, Colli explains how he arrived at the extraordinary interpretations captured here. The relationship he explores is discoverable in the Italian Concerto and Partita No. 4, but it is in Ferruccio Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne that the relationship, in his view, becomes clear. Colli offers the listener a vivid interpretation which links the progress of the piece, rich in symbolic detail, to important stages in the life, and afterlife, of Christ, different re-iterations of the theme and of the tonalities corresponding with key moments in the religious narrative. As always, Colli gives deeply felt and exciting performances, his irrepressible personality and flair evident throughout.

REVIEW:

My enthusiasm for this disc is less about Colli’s philosophical ruminations upon the music, however heartfelt they may be, and more about his approach to playing it, which is both compelling and fresh; it combines abundant technical finesse with a visionary grasp of scale and structure, as well as the ability to project extremes of fragility and monumentality (most notably in the Chaconne), and above all to conjure a kaleidoscopic palette of colours and textures from his Steinway. This is an intelligently compiled programme, stunningly performed, in immaculate sound. Do not hesitate.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 I. Ouverture 05:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Ouverture
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  2. 2 II. Allemande 07:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  3. 3 III. Courante 03:47
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Courante
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  4. 4 IV. Aria 02:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Aria
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  5. 5 V. Sarabande 05:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Sarabande
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  6. 6 VI. Menuet 01:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Menuet
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  7. 7 VII. Gigue 03:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    VII. Gigue
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  8. 8 I. [Allegro] 03:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. [Allegro]
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  9. 9 II. Andante 04:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  10. 10 III. Presto 03:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli
  11. 11 Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne (arr. F. Busoni for piano) 16:47
    Track
    11
    Title
    Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne (arr. F. Busoni for piano)
    Duration
    16:47
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Federico Colli