Berio - Cinque Variazioni (1952/1953 – revised 1966)

Matteo Bevilacqua steals a march on his precursor, Francesco Tristano Schlimé, who made the first recording of the Sonata (Sisyphe, 7/07) but did not include in his ‘complete’ collection the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…

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... — American Record Guide, January/February 2009 More…

It's the accounts of the impressive Sonata, though, that point up the basic differences between the rival discs. Lucchesini, who gave the work's premiere in 2001, takes just 23 minutes over... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Celebrating the enduring power of the variations form, this recital moves from distinguished recent examples to Brahms’s resplendent Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel...Peter Lieberson’s... — Sunday Times, 1st March 2015 More…