Sandro Ivo Bartoli

Sandro Ivo Bartoli (born 10 February 1970 in Pisa) is an Italian pianist.

Early career From the early 1990s, Bartoli has rediscovered, played and recorded Italian classical music from the early twentieth century, leading a fashion. His performance of the concertos of Respighi (Bedford, 1991), Malipiero (London, 1994) and Casella (1995), was followed by the first modern production in the United States of Ottorino Respighi's Toccata for piano and orchestra, with the Johnson City Symphony under Lewis Dalvit which was broadcast live by PBS and added to PBS' Great Performances series. After this success, Bartoli signed his first recording contract, with ASV, for an album of the piano works of Malipiero, and, the following year, a recording of music by Casella. released in 2014. The double CD received a Diapason D'Or/Découvert award in France.

More recently, Bartoli has been involved in a project to bring back to public attention the historic opera houses of Italy. His 2008 tour In Tuscany of Chopin met with praise from critics, and earned him a public commendation from the Tuscan Minister of Culture.

In 2010, he performed Ottorino Respighi's Concerto in the myxolydian mode with the Orchestra of the Landesbühnen Sachsen in Dresden followed by Beethoven's Fourth Piano concerto with the Teschenphilharmonie in Munich and Chopin's Second Piano Concerto in Grosseto. The following year, Bartoli recorded Ottorino Respighi's Concerto in modo misolidio and Toccata for piano and orchestra with the Landesbühnen Sachsen under Michele Carulli for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics, beginning an artistic partnership with the label that has since seen the release of six albums with a diverse repertoire spanning from Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica to an album devoted to Frescobaldi (The Frescobaldi Legacy - 5 De Diapason 2013), and encompassing the Liszt-Busoni transcriptions and the complete Bach-Busoni transcriptions.

Discography Malipiero: Piano Music - ASV, September 1995 Casella: Piano Music - ASV, 17 March 1998 Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals - Neos, 2003 Encores - Opera Etcetera, 2004 Fugitives - Timbre, 21 February 2005 Malipiero: Piano Concertos, Variazioni Senza Tema (2-CD set). Radio Orchestra of Saarbruecken, M. Carulli. CPO, 2007. Chopin Brillante - Fenice DM, 2008 Liszt-Busoni: Piano transcriptions (Paganini Etudes, Mephisto Waltz, Hungarian Rhapsody No.19, Fantasy and Fugue on Ád nos ad salutarem undam. Brilliant Classics, 2011. Respighi: Concerto in modo misolido, Toccata. State Orchestra of Saxony, Michele Carulli. Brilliant Classics, 2011. Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, Seven Elegies. Brilliant Classics, 2011. Lotichius: Piano Concerto No.1. St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande. Navona, 2013. The Frescobaldi Legacy: transcriptions and original works by Respighi, Bartòk, feinberg, Ligeti, Reicha, Bauer. Brilliant Classics, 2013. Bach-Busoni: The complete transcriptions (2-CD set). Brilliant Classics, 2014. Liszt: The Franciscan Works. Solaire Records, 2015 Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludes, Fantasias and Minuets. Solaire Records, 2017