Italian Inspirations / Alessio Bax

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Signum Classics
Release Date
February 7, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH DALLAPICCOLA LISZT RAC
    • PERFORMER
      Alessio Bax
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2020
    • UPC
      635212061121
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD611
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    3. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    4. Theme: Andante

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    5. Variation 1: Poco più mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    6. Variation 2: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    7. Variation 3: Tempo di menuetto

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    8. Variation 4 - 5

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    9. Variation 6: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    10. Variation 7: Vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    11. Variation 8: Adagio misterioso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    12. Variation 9: Un poco più mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    13. Variation 10: Allegro scherzando

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    14. Variation 11: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    15. Variation 12: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    16. Variation 13: Agitato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    17. Intermezzo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    18. Variation 14: Andante (come prima)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    19. Variation 15: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    20. Variation 16: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    21. Variation 17: Meno mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    22. Variation 18: Allegro con brio

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    23. Variation 19: Più mosso, Agitato

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    24. Variation 20: Più mosso

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    25. Coda: Andante

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    26. I. Simbolo

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    27. II. Accenti

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    28. III. Contrapuntus primus

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    29. IV. Linee

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    30. V. Contrapunctus secundus

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    31. VI. Fregi

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    32. VII. Andantino amoroso e Contrapunctus tertius

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    33. VIII. Ritmi

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    34. IX. Colore

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    35. X. Ombre

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    36. XI. Quartina

      Composer: Luigi Dallapiccola

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    37. 2 Légendes, S175/R17: No. 1. St. François d'Assise - La prédication aux oiseaux

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Alessio Bax

    38. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy, S161/R10b: No. 7. Apres une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi una sonata (After Reading Dante)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Alessio Bax


Alessio Bax plays an Italian inspired programme, picking his favourite pieces taken from a rich history of music from one of the most romantic countries in the world.

He opens the programme with a J.S. Bach transcription of a oboe concerto by Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello, which reveals a deep insight into Bach’s mind. This is followed by Rachmaninov’s last ever work for solo piano, which is incredibly eloquent, introspective and personal. The Dallapiccola continues this eloquent theme, showing some beautifully crafted dodecaphonism. The recording is rounded off with two pieces of Liszt, which take the listener on a multi-legged journey through hell, purgatory and heaven, with beauty and drama along the way.



REVIEW:



This Italian’s salute to his home country is inspired indeed. The standout performance is a spellbinding account of the Dante Sonata in which Bax masterfully combines scrupulous observation of Liszt’s agogics and dynamics (trusting the composer here really does pay dividends) with quite thrilling bravura in which he throws caution to the wind. Few accounts of the first two pages are so filled with menace and mystery.


– Gramophone