JS Bach: Italian Concerto; Partita No. 4; Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor

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Colli’s Bach playing is from an expressive standpoint in the Romantic tradition, especially where dynamics are concerned…He gives a dazzling but never flashy account of [the Italian Concerto’s]... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 4th Jan 2019
Catalogue No: CHAN20079
Label: Chandos
Length: 59 minutes

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Bach, J S: Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV828

Work length30:22

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Federico Colli (piano)
Recorded: 17-19 May 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

I. Ouverture

Track length5:11

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II. Allemande

Track length8:00

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III. Courante

Track length3:49

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IV. Aria

Track length2:32

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V. Sarabande

Track length5:30

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VI. Menuet

Track length1:53

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VII. Gigue

Track length3:27

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Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Work length12:29

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Federico Colli (piano)
Recorded: 17-19 May 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Track length3:58

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II. Andante

Track length5:00

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III. Presto

Track length3:31

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Busoni: Transcription of Bach's Partita BWV 1004: Chaconne

Work length16:47

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Federico Colli (piano)
Recorded: 17-19 May 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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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.

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February 2019

Colli’s Bach playing is from an expressive standpoint in the Romantic tradition, especially where dynamics are concerned…He gives a dazzling but never flashy account of [the Italian Concerto’s] fast outer movements, while shaping the continuous melody of the Andante with lovingly-crafted contours.

January 2019

What shines through this new Bach disc is a sense of musical daring; imagination, too; and sincerity by the bucketful, not just at the keyboard but also in his soul-baring notes…Just occasionally, though, I wanted him to rein things in a little. Nevertheless, there’s no doubt that Colli is one of the more original thinkers of his generation.

March 2019

There shades of Argerich’s classic DG recording in his approach, which is robust and clear in the Ouvertüre to the Partita. Colli’s pedalling is an object lesson in utilising the strengths of a modern instrument while remaining faithful to the expression in the original. This is Colli’s fourth Chandos release and confirms his position as a pianist of note. One awaits the next impatiently.

March 2019

This is an intelligently compiled programme, stunningly performed, in immaculate sound. Do not hesitate.

January 2019

The exuberance and expansiveness which made this young Italian pianist’s Scarlatti recital last year so engaging prove equally riveting in Bach – Colli may view Baroque repertoire through the prism of Romanticism, but he never loses sight of the underlying structures behind the music. The mighty Chaconne (in Busoni’s transcription) sees him conjuring quasi-orchestral sonorities from his Steinway, but it’s his weightless delicacy in the slow movements of the Partita that make this essential listening.

27th January 2019

His liner note weightily considers the transcendent in Bach, yet his playing of the Partita, especially its vivacious dance movements, and the Italian Concerto is all lightness and brilliance.

10th January 2019

There is a percussive quality to his touch that means that when he rattles winningly through the outer movements of the Italian Concerto, with entirely natural fluency, you can almost hear how they would sound on a harpsichord…Colli’s performance [of the Chaconne] is characteristically thoughtful and considered, yet has a self-aware sense of the epic about it...it’s a monumentally well-paced performance that grips from each moment to the next.

11th January 2019

Whatever he plays, whatever he does, Colli compels attention...I’d place this D major Partita as the album’s real transcendent experience. It’s here that the clarity of Colli’s fingerwork brings the most benefit, along with his engineering skills. Over the work’s half-hour span every movement is carefully weighted to form part of a whole...At his best Colli makes most other pianists appear thin and flat. On this album, you get three dimensions, sometimes more.

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