FT presents the short film My Riga Connection directed by Viktors Buda.
The short film was recorded following Francesco Tristano’s return to Riga after a 26-year hiatus.
”Last summer after 26 years, I had the opportunity to return to Riga, fusing piano and electronics in a live performance. It was an emotional return as I have a hidden connection to this city”.
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The new FT music label, IntotheFuture, is a journey in the broadest sense. Focusing on exploring new formats and bringing together styles, Intothefuture looks to the future with an eye toward the past.
The label’s first release is Bach The 6 English Suites, a recording which presents the music as constantly evolving, without repeats or comebacks.
Paris was the setting for the recording of Bach The 6 English Suites at the end of 2022. FT shows his talent in viewing Bach’s scores as an ever-changing universe of formal complexity and artistic value with these compositions of great formal complexity.
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The ballet company of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin is focusing on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach at its first premiere of the new season.
For the “Future” part of the production, the Luxembourg pianist Francesco Tristano recorded works by Bach and composed a piece himself.
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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. Francesco 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 as the Concerto in A Major BWV 1055. The piano section radiates with its succession of arpeggios while the string ensemble punctuates the dialogue with incisive and rhythmic interventions.
THE RECORD PROGRAMME
Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Concerto BWV 1052 in D Minor,
(Cadenza Miharu Ogura)
Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Concerto BWV 1055 in A Major,
(Cadenza Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier)
Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Concerto BWV 1058 in G Minor,
(Cadenza Francesco Tristano)
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