Pietro Soraci

Pietro Soraci – Sämtliche Klavierwerke VI – Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (BWV 846-893) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:48:54 minutes | 3,91 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Italian pianist, Pietro Soraci, showed his extraordinary natural talent in playing the piano since he was 3 years old, gaining the interest of the national press and televisions. He performed first when he was 11, with the Orchestra of Bellini Opera Theater. He graduated – followed by Emilia Miozzi – with the highest score, cum laude, and honored with a special award of appreciation. After experiencing different approaches to the piano music and techniques through the contact with some of the major teachers like Elisabeth Leonskaja (Salzburg, Austria), Massimo Bertucci and Vincenzo Vitale (Sermoneta, Italy), Andrej Jasinski (Katovice Music Accademy), he was awarded of several prizes in national and international piano competitions and in particular he was recognized as the best Italian pianist by the International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in Varsaw (Poland) in 1985.
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Pietro Soraci – Johann Sebastian Bach: Sämtliche Klavierwerke VIII – Inventionen und Sinfonien BWV 702-801, Concerto BWV 971, Aria variata BWV 989 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:49 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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This Da Vinci Classics album explores two crucial aspects of Bach’s output and of his style. On the one hand, there is the “Italianness” of his music; on the other, the pedagogical dimension.

Bach is rightly considered as one of the undiscussed champions of German music; not only because he is one of the greatest composers (if not the greatest) who ever lived in today’s Germany, but also because he displays some traits which are typical for the German Baroque. Among them, an interest for intricate polyphony which was already disappearing in the coeval music of other countries. Even among his contemporaries and peers, and even in Germany, Bach’s music was particularly complex under this viewpoint; he was even seen as antiquated by some, precisely because the international trends of the late Baroque era were pointing toward greater lightness and simplicity, in what would become the style galante, Rococo and then the Classical style.

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