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twelve o’clock, September 29, 2021 – 4:08 pm
An original and mature approach that of the Salento pianist at 12 tudes op. 25 what’s up four Jokes in the new album released by Warner Classics: an essay on technique, passion and intelligence by absolute level
from Fabrizio Versienti
Not new to compete with Chopin, Beatrice Rana; for the 28-year-old pianist from Salento, a consecrated star of concerts, it is indeed the return to a great youthful love that is now rediscovered with a very little Chopinian approach. After recording the 26 Pruludes as a fresh winner of the Montral competition comes now, ten years later, this album for Warner Classics entirely dedicated to Chopin, to the 12 tudes op. 25 what’s up four Jokes. The declared intention is to free it from the encrustations of tradition. No languor, no stolen goods, no time licenses; rather, fidelity to the score but also an interpretation rich in personality, which makes the instrument sing and returns with great transparency all the subtle and very rich compositional texture. From this point of view, the four Jokes work for Rana as an effective synthesis of Chopin’s path: virtuous and brilliant as a young man in n. 1 op. 20 (written in 1831), then tormented by mystical visions and aspirations to the absolute in the most restless phase of the two Scherzi op. 31 and op. 39 (1837 – 1839), finally arrived at a classical equilibrium and a deeper spirituality in the fourth (1842). A little over a decade which sums up a short and intense life (Chopin died in 1849, aged 39). The tudes, on the other hand, they are pages of skill but also of overflowing imagination. Beatrice Rana enhances every nuance, from the half tones of the first episodes to the warm expressiveness of the number 7, where the left hand caresses the keyboard producing intense cello strings, up to the telluric power of the number 12. In doing so, she exhibits a prodigious technical ability , passion and intelligence, confirming, after the happy approach to Bach, Ravel and Stravinsky of his most recent CDs for Warner, that he does not limit his talent.
29 September 2021 | 16:08
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