Hanna Bachmann - Plaisanteries - Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev

Humor in music is the theme of this album by the 25-year-old pianist Hanna Bachmann from Austria, who plans debuts in the Berlin Philharmonic and concerts in the UK and US next season, and whom the conductor Kirill Petrenko attested �great musicality, crea-tivity, high technical ability, fine sound and a matured personality�. The spectrum of variety of this program spans from the childlike cheerfulness of Mozart (Variations on �A Woman is the Most Delightful Thing� K. 613) to the profound wit and deliberate irony of Beethoven (�Diabelli Variations� Op. 120) to the pungent laughter of Prokofiev (�Sarcasm� Op. 17).