De jonge Italiaanse pianiste Beatrice Rana brak in 2013 definitief door tijdens het Cliburn Concours, waar zij naast de tweede prijs ook de publieksprijs won. Twee jaar eerder won zij als achttienjarige al prestigieuze concoursen in o.a. Canada. Op haar vierde soloalbum stort zij zich vol overgave op Bachs Goldberg Variaties. Gedurfd, zeker, maar dankzij haar aangename lichte touch sprankelt haar interpretatie van begin tot eind. Ook de opname is aangenaam transparant.
Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Bach was the composer who most obsessed Beatrice Rana as a child, and in a recent interview with Pianist magazine, she confessed that it would be his music, and above all the Goldberg Variations, that she would choose if she had to devote her life to a single composer. As she said: “I’m very happy to be going back to Bach … It’s best to avoid Bach in competitions … you can’t expose yourself to be totally killed by the jury! But Bach is my first love; now I am allowed to play it in public and I’m really looking forward to that.”
