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Davide Cabassi - Escaping (2009)

Davide Cabassi - Escaping (2009)

BAND/ARTIST: Davide Cabassi

  • Title: Escaping
  • Year Of Release: 2009
  • Label: Endeavour Classics
  • Genre: Classical Piano
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:55:06
  • Total Size: 185 mb
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Tracklist

01. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: Arioso - Adagio
02. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: Andante
03. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: Adagissimo
04. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: His Friends Come
05. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: Aria di postiglione - Adagio poco
06. Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother in B-Flat Major, BWV 992: Fuga all'imitazione della cornetta di postiglione
07. Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
08. Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: Allegro molto
09. Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110: Adagio, ma non troppo - Fuga
10. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Aria
11. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation I: Piú Vivo
12. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation II: Animato
13. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation III: Dolce, scherzando
14. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation IV: Risoluto
15. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation V: Espressivo
16. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation VI: Sempre misterioso
17. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation VII: Deciso, con vivacita
18. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation VIII: Deciso, con vivacita
19. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation IX: Poco sostenuto
20. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation X: Allegro energico
21. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XI: Moderato, dolce espressivo
22. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XII: L'istesso tempo
23. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XIII: Largamente, ma non troppo
24. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XIV: Sciolto
25. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XV
26. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XVI
27. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XVII: Più mosso
28. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XVIII
29. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XIX: Leggiero e vivace manon troppo
30. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XX: Andante
31. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XXI: Vivace
32. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XXII: Alla musette
33. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XXIII: Vivace
34. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XXIV
35. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Variation XXV
36. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: Fuga

Italian pianist Davide Cabassi was a finalist at the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth. His first recordings have been intelligently programmed. The title of this one, Escaping, might be a loose translation of the movement "in fuga" that concludes each of the three works on the program, and the concept is backed up by innovative graphic design. Annotator Joshua H. Izzard goes on to assert that each work embodies "a transcendence and triumph of substance and form over worldly worries." That's a rather nebulous concept, and one that could be debated for at least two of these works. Indeed, the teenaged J.S. Bach's Capriccio in B flat major on the Departure of His Beloved Brother, BWV 992, the composer's only fully programmatic work, would seem more quotidian than transcendent. Probably composed on the occasion of Bach's brother's departure for a new job, it evokes such details as friends trying to persuade him not to go. There is a humorous aspect to the music that eludes Cabassi, although he's a fine Bach pianist. The Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110, whose transcendence can be granted, may be the strongest of the three performances on the album. There are many versions that differentiate the four movements more than Cabassi does, for example by speeding through or playing up the bumptious humor of the Scherzo. But Cabassi's clean approach, which makes the structure of the final fugue very clear, succeeds on its own terms. The Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, is something like Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, in its way of extracting the maximal structural and stylistic implications from a small kernel; the listener is taken on a tour of styles whose corners are not always fully illuminated here, although the slam-bang finale is effective. For his fresh thinking about programming, Cabassi is clearly a pianist to watch.

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