Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt, April 12th 2019

Franz Schubert once thought there was no such thing as jovial music. But perhaps just interpreters who serve up deadly serious music as jovial. The twenty-five-year-old pianist Hanna Bachmann from Vorarlberg is one of them and is able to prove it impressively on her new solo album which is her second CD.

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Review by Fritz Jurmann, February 2nd 2019, Magazine ‘Kultur’. Online Edition

„Do you know of any funny music? I don‘t!” Musician, choir director and composer Martin Lindenthal quoted Franz Schubert’s famous quotation when he presented pianist Hanna Bachmann’s (25) second album (Gramola label) in the Kosmos Theatre in Bregenz on Thursday night. The CD with the title ‘Plaisanteries’ (French for ‘jokes’) finds the pianist dealing with the subject of humour in the classical and the classic modern piano pieces in this catagory. Bearing this in mind the dialogue between the presenter and interpreter debated this often deliberated theme, while the pianist played especially chosen pieces live for her audience from her latest CD. Continue reading “Hanna Bachmann’s CD Presentation: Humour Cleverly Wrapped Up in Piano Music”

It is refreshing how Hanna Bachmann has launched her second CD.

BREGENZ She lays fully clothed in a nostalgic white enamel bath tub with small feet. That is how pianist Hanna Bachmann (25) from Röthis advertises her second CD and woos her audience for her new project ‘Plaisanteries’, which is French for ‘joke, fun’ (Gramola). Numerous fans and friends of the young pianist accepted her invitation to the launch of her CD in the Kosmos Theatre in Bregenz. Musician and composer Martin Lindenthal lead the audience skillfully through a world caught between a high level of required interpretation and hidden humour. Continue reading “For Her Fans She Even Climbs into the Bath. Concert Review by Fritz Jurmann in ‘Vorarlberger Nachrichten’ (Feb 2nd)”