Bach Nostalghia

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Both [originals and transcriptions] are played, tantalisingly, with a keen sense of place and time – the Bach affectionately and glowingly, but with a modern stylistic sensitivity, the Busoni... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: PTC5186846
Label: Pentatone
Length: 52 minutes

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Bach, J S: Prelude in E flat major, BWV552 / 1 'St Anne'

Work length8:32

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

Work length4:42

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV645 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'

Work length4:03

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$1.30

$1.75

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Work length12:10

$3.00

$3.90

$5.25

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length4:00

$1.00

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$1.75

II. Andante

Track length4:16

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Presto

Track length3:54

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$1.75

Bach, C P E: Flute Sonata in E flat major (after BWV 1031), (H545)

Work length3:16

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

II. Siciliano (Attrib. J.S. Bach as BWV 1031) [Transcr. W. Kempff for Piano]

Track length3:16

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV650 'Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter'

Work length3:07

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Busoni: Toccata in A flat minor, K287

Work length9:16

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Bach, J S: Prelude in E flat major, BWV552 / 1 'St Anne'

Work length7:00

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

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On Bach Nostalghia, his second PENTATONE album, pianist Francesco Piemontesi presents original works of Bach, alongside Bach transcriptions and works inspired by Bach from Ferruccio Busoni, Wilhelm Kempff and Maximilian Schnaus. Whereas many modern-day musicians aim to revive the instruments used in Bach’s own time, Piemontesi explores the tradition of Bach transcriptions for piano. This tradition started in the nineteenth-century, found its most prominent exponent in Busoni, and is still alive today, as Schnaus’s transcription of Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter demonstrates. Despite using an instrument not yet existing in the composer’s time, Busoni and others sought to interpret Bach’s music with utmost reverence and study, expanding our notions of authenticity and Werktreue. For Piemontesi, playing Bach through the eyes of Busoni and Kempff incites a sense of nostalgia, re- establishing the ties to a rich pianistic tradition. The album title alludes to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, a 1983 film about the untranslatability of art and culture. Francesco Piemontesi is among the most-cherished pianists of our age, and presents the second fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, having released the acclaimed Schubert - Last Piano Sonatas in 2019, which was crowned as Classica’s Choc of the Month in February 202

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June 2021

Both [originals and transcriptions] are played, tantalisingly, with a keen sense of place and time – the Bach affectionately and glowingly, but with a modern stylistic sensitivity, the Busoni on an appropriately grander scale, yet with half an eye on its Bachian trajectory.

September/October 2021

Piemontesi’s collection is exemplary of its kind, and if you like his expressive bent, you will find much to enjoy here. Warmly recommended.

13th June 2021

Piemontesi makes light work of Busoni’s Bach-inspired Toccata and makes a point of contrasting the sonorities of the transcriptions — one by the great German pianist Wilhelm Kempff — with the transparency and staccato of “original” Bach. A collector’s item for piano enthusiasts.

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