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Forgotten Dances
Various composers

Alessio Bax

Forgotten Dances

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212091029
Catnr: SIGCD 910
Release date: 06 September 2024
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212091029
Catalogue number
SIGCD 910
Release date
06 September 2024
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About the album

His ninth solo album on Signum Records, Alessio Bax combines exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique and is without a doubt “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). Here he presents an album of works for dancing, including tangos and waltzes spanning three centuries. Featuring composers such as J S Bach, Manuel de Falla and Claude Debussy a variety of cultures are showcased in this album for solo piano, and features contributions to an arrangement by Bax himself.

Artist(s)

Alessio Bax (piano)

Combining exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique, Alessio Bax is without a doubt “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). He catapulted to prominence with First Prize wins at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and is now a familiar face on five continents, not only as a recitalist and chamber musician, but also as a concerto soloist who has appeared with more than 150 orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston, Dallas, Cincinnati, Sydney, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and the NHK Symphony in Japan, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jaap van...
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Combining exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique, Alessio Bax is without a doubt “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). He catapulted to prominence with First Prize wins at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and is now a familiar face

on five continents, not only as a recitalist and chamber musician, but also as a concerto soloist who has appeared with more than 150 orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston, Dallas, Cincinnati, Sydney, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and the NHK Symphony in Japan, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jaap van Zweden.

Since 2017, he has been the Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, a Summer Music Festival in the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany. He appears regularly in festivals such as Seattle, Bravo Vail, Salon-de-Provence, Le Pont in Japan, Great Lakes, Verbier, Ravinia, and Music@Menlo.

Bax constantly explores many facets of his career. He released his eleventh Signum Classics album, Italian Inspirations, whose program was also the vehicle for his solo recital debut at New York’s 92nd Street Y as well as on tour. He has also toured Spain with violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis. Bax and his regular piano duo partner, Lucille Chung, gave recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center and were featured with the St. Louis Symphony and Stéphane Denève. He has also presented the complete works of Beethoven for cello and piano with cellist Paul Watkins in New York City. Further highlights of previous seasons were his debuts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra Belfast, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Gdansk and his return for the fourth time for two recitals at the historic Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires festival as well as return appearances at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival with the Dallas Symphony and Fabio Luisi conducting.

Bax revisited Mozart’s K. 491 and K. 595 concertos, as heard on the recording Alessio Bax Plays Mozart, for debuts with the Boston and Melbourne Symphonies, both with Sir Andrew Davis, and with the Sydney Symphony, which he led from the keyboard. Other highlights include his Auckland Philharmonia debut, concerts in

Israel, a Japanese tour featuring dates with the Tokyo Symphony and a high-profile U.S. tour with Berlin Philharmonic principal flautist Emmanuel Pahud. Previous seasons also saw Bax make his solo recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall, which aired live on BBC Radio 3, and gave concerts at L.A.’s Disney Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

He was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and four years later he received both the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists.

Bax’s celebrated Signum Classics discography includes Beethoven’s Hammerklavier and Moonlight Sonatas (a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”); Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Bax & Chung, a duo disc with Lucille Chung; Alessio Bax plays Mozart, recorded with London’s Southbank Sinfonia; Alessio Bax: Scriabin & Mussorgsky (named “Recording of the Month ... and quite possibly ... of the year” by MusicWeb International); Alessio Bax plays Brahms (a Gramophone “Critics’ Choice”); Bach Transcribed and Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies (an American Record Guide “Critics’ Choice 2011”). Recorded for Warner Classics, his Baroque Reflections album was also a Gramophone

“Editor’s Choice.” He performed Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata for Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available on DVD from EMI.

At age 14, Bax graduated with top honours from the conservatory of Bari, his hometown in Italy, and after further studies in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1994. A Steinway artist, he lives in New York City with pianist Lucille Chung and their daughter, Mila. He was invited to join the piano faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory in 2019.


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01.
English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: I. Prélude
04:15
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
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English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: II. Allemande
03:27
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
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English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: III. Courante
01:38
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
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English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: IV. Sarabande
03:14
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
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English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: V. Bourrée I, Bourrée II
04:08
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
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English Suite no. 2 in A minor, BWV 807: VI. Gigue
02:06
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
07.
Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: I. Moderato
03:07
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
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Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: II. Allegro molto
02:05
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
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Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: III. Allegro vivace
02:43
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
10.
Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: IV. Molto tranquillo
02:48
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
11.
Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: V. Comodo
01:01
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
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Tanzsuite, Sz.77, BB 86b: VI. Finale. Allegro
03:53
(Béla Bartók) Alessio Bax
13.
El sombrero de tres picos: Danza del molinero (Farruca)
03:10
(Manuel de Falla) Alessio Bax
14.
España, Op. 165: Tango
03:02
(Isaac Albéniz) Alessio Bax
15.
El amor brujo: Danza ritual del fuego, para ahuyentar los malos espíritus
04:01
(Manuel de Falla) Alessio Bax
16.
Valse oubliée No. 1, S.215/1
02:56
(Franz Liszt) Alessio Bax
17.
La valse
11:12
(Maurice Ravel) Alessio Bax
18.
Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
03:07
(J.S. Bach) Alessio Bax
19.
Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D-flat major, WoO 1
03:11
(Johannes Brahms) Alessio Bax
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