JS Bach - Bach Stage: Keyboard Concertos | La Scala Music SMU007

JS Bach - Bach Stage: Keyboard Concertos

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Label: La Scala Music

Cat No: SMU007

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd June 2023

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Eighteen years after first recording the Bach piano concertos, Francesco Tristano revisits three of these classics in partnership with Leo Margue as the conductor and the Bach Stage Ensemble, set up especially for the project. Recorded for the label Scala Music, this new version has historically been documented but never set in stone. Three composers were also given the opportunity to write cadenzas for these concertos. Francesto Tristano plays while standing with great spirit and energy. The pianist shakes up musical habits with this album. We have never heard these concertos with such an obsessive and forceful rhythm like the Concerto in A major, BWV 1055. The piano section, with its succession of arpeggios, radiates while the string ensemble punctuates the dialogue with incisive and rhythmic interventions.

Conductor, pianist and saxophonist, Leo Margue made his debut as an assistant conductor of three French orchestras: the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France. After entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Alain Altinoglu as a teacher since 2013, he followed Miko Franck’s masterclass along with the Philharmonic Orchestra from Radio France, and David Zinman’s with the Orchestre National de Lyon. Attracted by theatre and dance, he partnered with Marc-André Dalbavie, Bertrand de Billy at the Paris Opera and worked on several occasions with Farid Berki, French choregrapher of contemporary dance and hip-hop. Chief assistant of Matthias Pintscher at the Ensemble Intercontemporain from 2019 to 2021, he became particularly proactive in the field of creation and is especially interested in the correlation between improvisation and written music with the LIKΣN project, alongside with Thimothée Quost, composer and improviser.

Invited by the main French creative music ensembles, Léo Margue took over the artistic direction of Ensemble 2e2m in 2022 to ensure its historical integrity and innovativeness, so that artistic creation is at the heart of the expectations of all audiences, today and tomorrow.

Francesto Tristano has a multi-faceted career as a pianist, composer and producer, diving into classical and electronic music. As a classical music artist, he is often associated to baroque music, particularly with JS Bach as well as Buxtehude and Frescobaldi. Tristano is also at ease in contemporary music and avant-garde, interpreting Luciano Berio works, John Cage and Igor Stravinsky in addition to his own compositions.

While still studying, Tristano started his career as a soloist. In 2000, he made his debut in the United States with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev. Soon after, he founded the New Bach Players with whom he regularly produced himself as a soloist and conductor. Tristano started working with the Berliner techno label Get Physical Music in 2014, starting with the piano EP, with Hats & Stabs as well as LudePre, a twelve-minute work partnering with Carl Craig. ‘Afrodiziak’, a jazz-influenced album with percussionists Bachar Khalifé and Pascal Schumacher, was released in 2015 on the reborn label MPS. In 2016, ‘Surface Tension’ was released by Detroit label, Transmat, comprising four collaborations with Derrick May and a remix from Tristano of ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’, originally composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Tristano arranged, orchestrated and played on the album ‘Versus’ (2017) by Craig, on which the orchestra Les Siècles plays, conducted by François-Xavier Roth.

Tristano made his Sony Classical debut with ‘Piano Circle Songs’ (2017), which included collaborations with Chilly Gonzales. ‘Tokyo Stories’ (2019) acted as a tonal love letter to his namesake city. His latest release, ‘Tristano plays Gulda’, was released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the artist’s death in January 2020.

In 2018/19, Tristano collaborated with Japanese company Yamaha to create the first Glenn Gould artificial intelligence performance algorithm. The project premiered in 2019 at the Ars Nova Festival in Linz at the St Florian Monastery and was met with critical acclaim.

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