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Alessio Bax has been engaged as soloist with the famed St. Petersburg Philharmonic and its principal conductor, Yuri Temirkanov, to perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow on April 4, and in Nizhni Novgorod on April 6, 2012. This marks Bax’s debut with Russia’s oldest symphonic ensemble, which was founded in 1882
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Favorite Sessions: The Poetry and Power of Pianist Alessio Bax
“I had heard concert recordings of Alessio before he arrived for our chat and was impressed by his pianistic power and poetry. Both were present again here — he opened with a patiently tender performance of Bach's ‘Sheep May Safely Graze,’ then brought out the searching melancholy in a Ballade by Johannes Brahms. He finished with dazzling color and fireworks in a set of three Rachmaninoff Preludes — all suffused with the same glow of personal warmth that came through in our conversation. I'm awfully glad to have met Alessio, and I can't wait to hear what he'll bring to the music he plays in the future.”
— NPR Music, November 10, 2011 [Performance Today host Fred Child]
Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies CD Review
"This is an outstanding Rachmaninoff program in three sections ... Bax conquers all with plenty of technique to spare. His performance of the most difficult Prelude, the ninth, is taken at a jaw dropping tempo; and it's clean, clear, and very well voiced ... His own arrangement of the 'Vocalise' is simple and direct, without superfluous additions … His previous Signum release, Bach Transcribed, was a Critics Choice in 2005. This one may very well repeat the honor."
— "Critics' Choice" 2011 American Record Guide, November/December 2011 [James Harrington]
FEBRUARY TOUR DATES
5-6 Calgary, Canada
7 Vancouver, Canada
11 Washington, DC
12 Menlo Park, CA
14 New Haven, CT
18 Lexington, KY
19 Dallas, TX
26 Beacon, NY