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Special offer. Francesco Piemontesi: Recital

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

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It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by...

Special offer. Francesco Piemontesi: Recital

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

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It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by...

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Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, still only 27, is one of the most sought after young artists of his generation. In 2009 he was awarded a fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and was invited to join the BBC ‘New Generation Artists’ scheme. This recital beginning with Handel’s Suite in B flat shows his superb sonority.

Contents and tracklist

I. Prelude
Track length3:31
II. Aria con Variazioni 5
Track length2:51
III. Menuet
Track length2:34
Variations and Fugue on a Theme, Op. 24: Theme. Aria
Track length0:37
Variations and Fugue on a Themel, Op. 24: Variation 1
Track length0:39
Variation 2
Track length0:33
Variation 3
Track length0:37
Variation 4
Track length0:38
Variation 5
Track length0:52
Variation 6
Track length0:44
Variation 7
Track length0:27
Variation 8
Track length0:36
Variation 9
Track length1:18
Variation 10
Track length0:28
Variation 11
Track length0:40
Variation 12
Track length0:42
Variation 13
Track length1:40
Variation 14
Track length0:29
Variation 15
Track length0:33
Variation 16
Track length0:30
Variation 17
Track length0:34
Variation 18
Track length0:45
Variation 19
Track length1:24
Variation 20
Track length1:06
Variation 21
Track length0:40
Variation 22
Track length0:57
Variation 23
Track length0:29
Variation 24
Track length0:28
Variation 25
Track length0:30
Fuga
Track length5:14
I. Prelude
Track length1:55
II. Allemande
Track length2:15
III. Courante
Track length2:06
IV. Sarabande
Track length3:43
V. Menuett I - II
Track length2:09
VI. Gigue
Track length1:36
I. Prelude
Track length5:09
II. Fugue
Track length5:18

Awards and reviews

September 2011

It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriously classy pianism. Clarity of thought is complemented by clarity of touch, incisive intellect by a good dose of fantasy. The details are a joy...there's space to breathe and to dance...Spacious but clear recording quality enhances the lot.

Awards Issue 2011

The Handel is alluringly played, segueing neatly into the Brahms. Piemontesi gives this a thoughtful, meticulously observed reading but seems inhibited when it comes to exploiting the full resources of the piano...The intimacy and desolation of "Valle d'Obermann" are sensitively characterised but again Piemontesi seems afraid to let go

31st July 2011

Handel’s B flat major Suite, HWV 34, is incisive and positive, while clarity is not compromised by the wide tonal palette he displays in Brahms’s Handel Variations, Op 24. Bach’s B flat major Partita is articulated elegantly. A fine account of Liszt’s transcription of Bach’s G minor Fantasy and Fugue does its massiveness and thrilling contrapuntal intricacies utter justice.

30th June 2011

There's a real aristocratic sweep to this 27-year-old Swiss pianist's playing; the Handel suite from which Brahms extracted the theme of his Handel Variations is generously expressive...Piemontesi's unaffected Bach playing is recognisably all of a piece with his fundamentally unflamboyant approach to Liszt, which manages to present the rhetorical grandeur of Vallée d'Obermann truthfully, without exaggerating it in any way.

4th August 2011

Piemontesi combines communicative panache with remarkable insight. He prefaces a virile, sensitive performance of Brahms’s Handel Variations with a stylistically discerning one of the Handel suite...[the Liszt pieces] provide further evidence of Piemontesi’s exceptional talent.

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