Beatrice Rana - Bach: Keyboard Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Grandes Etudes de Paganini S141 2. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 S623A 3. Mephisto Waltz 4. Fantasia and Fugue S624 on the Chorale InchAd Nos, Ad Salutarem UndamInch from Meyerbeer's InchLe PropheteInch

For her second Warner Classics , young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana turns to a pinnacle of the solo keyboard repertoire and a composer she has described as Inchmy first loveInch Johann Sebastian Bach. Her interpretation of his epic Goldberg Variations bears out Le Monde's judgement that InchBeatrice Rana certainly has nothing left to prove when it comes to technique, but what makes an impression are her calm maturity and her sense of architecture,Inch and Gramophone's that she is Incha fully developed artist of a stature that belies her tender years.Inch Bach was the composer who most obsessed Beatrice Rana as a child, and in a recent interview with Pianist magazine, she confessed that it would be his music, and above all the Goldberg Variations, that she would choose if she had to devote her life to a single composer. As she said InchI'm very happy to be going back to Bach... It's best to avoid Bach in competitions... you can't expose yourself to be totally killed by the jury! But Bach is my first love; now I am allowed to play it in public and I'm really looking forward to that.Inch Album Tracks 1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 I. Aria 2. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 II. Variatio 1 a 1 Clav 3. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 III. Variatio 2 a 1 Clav 4. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 IV. Variatio 3 Canone All Unisuono a 1 Clav 5. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 V. Variatio 4 a 1 Clav 6. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 VI. Variatio 5 a 1 O Vero 2 Clav 7. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 VII. Variatio 6 Canone Alla Seconda a 1 Clav 8. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 VIII. Variatio 7 a 1 O Vero 2 Clav 9. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 IX. Variatio 8 a 2 Clav 10. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 X. Variatio 9 Canone Alla Terza a 2 Clav 11. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 XI. Variatio 10 Fughetta a 1 Clav 12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Xii. Variatio 11 a

Beatrice Rana combines Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann's piano concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin In an interview with the New York Times, Rana, who called the piano concerto by Clara Wieck Incha genius work in many ways,Inch said InchI think that it's very, very underestimated - the intellectual value of this concerto in the history of music. It's fascinating to see that she conceived of this music free from any limitations; that as a teenager she composed an uninterrupted concerto with no breaks between the movements. We think of Liszt's First Piano Concerto as revolutionary in that regard, but Clara wrote hers so much earlier, unbroken and with connecting themes linking the movements.Inch Album Tracks 1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 7 I. Allegro Maestoso 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 7 II. Romanze (Andante Non Troppo Con Grazia) 3. Piano Concerto No. 1 in a Minor, Op. 7 III. Finale. Allegro Non Troppo - Allegro Molto 4. Piano Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54 I. Allegro Affettuoso 5. Piano Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54 II. Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso) 6. Piano Concerto in a Minor, Op. 54 III. Allegro Vivace 7. Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 (Arr. Liszt, S. 566)