Bach Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052 1053 1054 1056
Exploring the myriad possibilities of Bach on the piano, Beatrice Rana engages in intimate and illuminating dialogue with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in four of the composer’s keyboard concertos: BWV 1052 in D minor, BWV 1053 in E major, BWV 1054 in D major, and BWV 1056 in F minor. For the New York Times, Rana’s […]
Schumann: Bilder aus Osten
Warner Classics brings you Robert Schumann’s lesser-known Bilder aus Osten, Op. 66 for piano four hands, featuring the terrific Beatrice Rana and Yannick Nézet -Seguin. “Robert Schumann had the personality of a poet, using music as a language to really write poems in music – Rana tells – I think that this aspect emerges very […]
Chopin – Beethoven
Beatrice Rana, characterised by Gramophone as a pianist of “fire and poetry, imagination and originality, temperament and charm, all on top of fearless technical address”, brings together two monumental sonatas: Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Piano Sonata (No. 29) and Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B♭minor, Op. 35, famous for its third movement, the Funeral March.
Piazzolla: Libertango
Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos
Beatrice Rana, partnered by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs the piano concertos of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck-Schumann. She complements them with Liszt’s transcription for solo piano of Robert’s song ‘Widmung’, an exuberant dedication of love, composed in the year of Robert and Clara’s marriage. The previous year (1839), Robert […]
Chopin Études Op. 25 – 4 Scherzi
‘Beatrice Rana set a new standard. She made the Chopin sound as poetic and colorful as anything he ever wrote. Her playing was refined and soft-spoken in its brilliance throughout. She had the audience rapt.’ – The New York Times
Stravinsky: Petrushka, The Firebird – Ravel: Miroirs, La Valse
Beatrice Rana, in the words of the New York Times, is a pianist who “has ferocious technique but is distinguished by her musical intelligence.” Here she plays virtuosic, poetic works that evoke the creative ferment of Paris in the transitional early years of the 20th century: piano transcriptions of Stravinsky’s iridescent ballet scores The Firebird and Petrushka, and […]
Bernstein: Complete Symphonies 1-3
‘The Santa Cecilia players fully relish the heat…with Pappano’s solo casting (inspired throughout this set) hitting precisely the right declamatory tone with Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s ripely theatrical delivery. ‘Pappano’s choice of the audacious young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana – a rising star if ever there was one – is right on the money. She has the […]
Bach: Goldberg Variations
For her second Warner Classics release, young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana turns to a pinnacle of the solo keyboard repertoire and a composer she has described as “my first love”: Johann Sebastian Bach. Her interpretation of his epic Goldberg Variations bears out Le Monde’s judgement that “Beatrice Rana certainly has nothing left to prove when it […]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Maestro Antonio Pappano insisted he wanted to record with Beatrice Rana, the 22-year-old Italian pianist championed by Martha Argerich who shot to stardom when she claimed the Silver Medal and the coveted Audience Award in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On that occasion, Huffington Post described the seasoned competition winner’s performance as ‘an […]