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Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (pronunciation perilous for non-Poles, but try "BLEH-hotch") made his name as a young Chopin specialist, but has often featured Bach's Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971, in concert. The Bach-Chopin connection is one that would have made perfect sense to Chopin himself, and here Blechacz expands it to full program length, with impressive results indeed. He may remind you of Dinu Lipatti, another Eastern European Chopin player whose Bach was haunting: sample the gentle and yet awesomely clear first movement of the Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825. Blechacz's Italian Concerto has great forward urgency without ever breaking tempo. The program has an intelligent structure of its own, placing the rather rare Four Duets, BWV 802-805 -- essentially expanded two-part inventions -- at the center: the music seems to enter a deeper chromatic realm and then slowly depart from it with another partita, and finally, with the arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Dame Myra Hess, another pianist whom Blechacz may bring to mind. If it seems wrong to bring up these big names, well, just give the album a listen. With this release Blechacz definitively transcends young phenom status. The metal-oriented Friedrich-Ebert-Halle arena in Ludwigshafen is a bit large and impersonal for what Blechacz is trying to do here, although everything's clear.
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Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV 825 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
4 Duettos (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Fantasia & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 944 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Partita No.3 in A minor, BWV 827 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Rafal Blechacz, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - (Rainer Maillard, Recording Engineer - Arend Prohmann, Producer)
℗ 2016 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz (pronunciation perilous for non-Poles, but try "BLEH-hotch") made his name as a young Chopin specialist, but has often featured Bach's Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971, in concert. The Bach-Chopin connection is one that would have made perfect sense to Chopin himself, and here Blechacz expands it to full program length, with impressive results indeed. He may remind you of Dinu Lipatti, another Eastern European Chopin player whose Bach was haunting: sample the gentle and yet awesomely clear first movement of the Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825. Blechacz's Italian Concerto has great forward urgency without ever breaking tempo. The program has an intelligent structure of its own, placing the rather rare Four Duets, BWV 802-805 -- essentially expanded two-part inventions -- at the center: the music seems to enter a deeper chromatic realm and then slowly depart from it with another partita, and finally, with the arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Dame Myra Hess, another pianist whom Blechacz may bring to mind. If it seems wrong to bring up these big names, well, just give the album a listen. With this release Blechacz definitively transcends young phenom status. The metal-oriented Friedrich-Ebert-Halle arena in Ludwigshafen is a bit large and impersonal for what Blechacz is trying to do here, although everything's clear.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:53
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Rafał Blechacz
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music Solo Piano
© 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, under exclusive license to Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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