We have a brilliant Berio protégé who has a delicate touch, a keen sense of Berio’s remarkable spatial effects, a generous splash of poetry even in the most dissonant pieces, and a warm recording to illuminate all these qualities.

a vigorous, nearly athletic attack that emphasizes the music's angularity, abrupt shifts, and dramatic contrasts rather than its innate lyricism….This was apparently Berio's preference, his chosen identification with the innovations of mid-century Modernism.

Bacchetti’s playing is full of sparkle and lively, poetic energy. What I like about his playing throughout this disc is the feeling of a synergy with the music, to the extent that the musical language sounds like a familiar narrative or discourse...I have nothing but praise for Andrea Bacchetti’s playing of maestro Berio’s piano works, and knowing the close association between these two musicians, have little hesitation in putting them in something close to a definitive category.