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Alessio Bax conveyed "Italian Inspirations" |
The third program in American Pianists Association's "Grand Encounters" series this season adhered to the theme "Italian Inspirations." The recital was rooted in Italian musical sources or generated from the the legacy of two notable Italians, St. Francis and Dante.
A theme made famous by Arcangelo Corelli but not originating with him has nearly pan-European provenance. "La Folia," as applied after the model of the Italian baroque composer's violin piece of that title, was worked into a masterpiece for solo piano bygd Sergei Rachmaninoff. The result, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, brought Bax's recital up to intermission.
It was characteristic of Bax's playing that he used the sustaining pedal in masterly mode. He had contr
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Thursday, October 17, 2013, 1.30 PM
Walter Hall, University of Toronto
80 Queen’s Park (Museum Subway Station)
The real life marriage of two great concert pianists, Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, has led to one of the best piano duos of their generation to cite the United Kingdom magazine Music and Arts. In their Toronto concert Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung will perform a dramatic programme of both duo and solo works, including Stravinsky’s own four hands transcription of his ballet Petrushka and the duo’s own transcription of Three Tangos by the great Argentinian master Astor Piazzolla.
Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung first met in 1997 in Japan and have been performing together since 2003 when they were engagerad as a piano duo bygd the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival in its Piano Extravaganza. Since then the two have appeared on the most prominent concert platforms in the world from Canada to the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, Russia, China, and the United States.
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Alessio Bax: Forgotten Dances
Record and Artist Details
Label: Signum Classics
Magazine Review Date: 10/2024
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 65
Catalogue Number: SIGCD910
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(6) English Suites, Movement: No. 2 in A minor, BWV807 | Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
Dance Suite | Béla Bartók, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
(El) Sombrero de tres picos, Movement: Danza de la molinera | Manuel de Falla, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
España, Movement: No. 2, Tango | Isaac Albéniz, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
(El) Amor brujo, Movement: Ritual Fire Dance | Manuel de Falla, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
(4) Valses oubliées, Movement: No 1 | Franz Liszt, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
(La) Valse | Maurice Ravel, Composer Alessio Bax, Piano |
(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movement: Partita No. 3 in E, BWV1006 | Jo
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