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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.
Suite In B Flat Major, HWV 434 - I Prelude
II Aria Con Variazioni (5)
III Menuet
Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel, Op. 24 - Theme Aria
Variazione I
Variazione II
Variazione III
Variazione IV
Variazione V
Variazione VI
Variazione VII
Variazione VIII
Variazione IX
Variazione X
Variazione XI
Variazione XII
Variazione Xiii
Variazione XIV
Variazione XV
Variazione XVI
Variazione XVIi
Variazione XVIII
Variazione XIX
Varazopme XX
Variazione XXI
Variazione Xxii
Variazione Xxiii
Variazione Xxiv
Variazione XXV
Fugue
Partita In B Flat, BWV 825 - I Prelude
II Allemande
III Courante
IV Sarabande
V Menuett I - II
VI Gigue
Toccata And Fugue In G Minor, BWV 542 - I Prelude
II Fugue
Vallee d'Obermann (From Years Of Pilgrimmage, First Year: Suisse)
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.”
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.”
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.”
September 2011
*****
“It's not just intelligent programme planning...that makes Piemontesi stand out; this is seriosuly 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”
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Suite In B Flat Major, HWV 434 - I Prelude
