Federico Colli
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The real point of this recording is its wonderful pianism…Colli takes no liberties with the text…the kaleidoscope is shaken and shaken, creating a riveting hour, with most of the works being... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Recording of the Month
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Colli’s colouring of the music is imaginative, and he is often persuasive in his cantabile playing…Yet too often elsewhere his gestures seem exaggerated…In short, notwithstanding some splendid... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Mozart: The Piano Quartets
Francesca Dego (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Federico Colli (piano)
All four musicians here are star soloists in their own rights, but there's no sense of jostling egos in these warmly collegiate performances - just the sense of ideas being exchanged in the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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JS Bach: Italian Concerto; Partita No. 4; Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor
Federico Colli (piano)
Colli’s Bach playing is from an expressive standpoint in the Romantic tradition, especially where dynamics are concerned…He gives a dazzling but never flashy account of [the Italian Concerto’s]... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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It’s not a question of ‘liberties’ taken: it’s about a kind of musical free-association, a grabbing of clues in the score which most pianists follow to the letter, but which Colli takes in both... —
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Wagner: Paraphrases and Transcriptions (Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 31)
Joseph Moog, Ya-Fei Chuang, Severin von Eckardstein and Federico Colli
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From the very first bars of the Adagio, K540, Colli's extreme delicacy of touch reinforces the impression of an artist lost in his own thoughts. He evokes such intimacy, such intensity, that... —
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Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos
Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano), James Thompson (trumpet), Stephen Hough (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (bass), Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Christopher Plummer (narrator), Celia Nicklin (oboe), Ian Watson (organ), Nigel Kennedy (violin), Peter Pettinger (piano),...
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Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 31: Wagner & Verdi
Joseph Moog (piano), Severin von Eckardstein (piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (piano), Federico Colli (piano), Robert Levin (piano), Sophie-Mayuko Vetter (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
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$43.50
