{"id":6773,"date":"2025-03-22T21:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/beautiful-review-in-the-strad-for-francesca-bonaita-and-her-new-recording-project\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T20:47:08","slug":"beautiful-review-in-the-strad-for-francesca-bonaita-and-her-new-recording-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/beautiful-review-in-the-strad-for-francesca-bonaita-and-her-new-recording-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful review in The Strad for Francesca Bonaita and her new recording project!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-33umxc-f52e9cc3be769e731ae070845578e7c9 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8koev6x-0698cb48edc1fb5a6e984409ff02d1d6 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Stad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Stad.png 642w, https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Stad-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"138\">\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udcbf CD RECORDING REVIEW! \ud83d\udcbf\ud83d\udca5<br \/>\nOn <strong>The Strad\u00a0<\/strong>the renowned and prestigious strings magazine, March 2025 issue<br \/>\n\u201cFRANCESCA BONAITA: SZYMANOWSKI<br \/>\nA YOUNG VIOLINIST OFFERS MUCH TO SEDUCE THE EAR\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSzymanowski\u2019s three Mythes may be the most performed of his violin-and-piano works &#8211; most of which appear here &#8211; but this disc also traces the intriguing path towards them. The earliest piece, the Violin Sonata, was written while the composer was still studying in Warsaw and, while it remains rooted in the grand Romantic tradition, it is bold in both its rhetoric and its soaring lyricism. These qualities are realised by Francesca Bonaita, whose winning sound is especially impressive in the first movement\u2019s fiery passion.<br \/>\nIn the second she spins out a natural lyrical thread over a tonal core of tender sweetness.<br \/>\nThe more enigmatic (and headily chromatic) Romance, from 1910, takes us further along the path to Szymanowski\u2019s later sensuality and mysticism. Bonaita here responds well to its more supple lines yet she\u2019s also fearless in the ascending octaves leading to its climax.<br \/>\nMore perfumed and Impressionistic are the Mythes. In the first, \u2018La fontaine d\u2019Ar\u00e9thuse\u2019, Bonaita sings siren-like over the piano\u2019s watery roulades, delicately handled by Saskia Giorgini, an ideal partner throughout the disc. \u2018Narcisse\u2019 is especially ravishing, bathed in half-lights, and \u2018Dryades et Pan\u2019 is both capricious and enigmatic.<br \/>\nSzymanowski\u2019s elaborations of three Paganini Caprices are a welcome confection to end, showing, among much else, Bonaita\u2019s ability to hover apparently indefinitely in the instrument\u2019s uppermost reaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianobagency.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}