 He joined with Italian composer Antonio Tabucchi, for a production at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and then the Festival of Aix-en-Provence to a positive reception.In 2000, he performed in Germany, where his interpretation of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto was acclaimed ("such a performance of the Emperor concerto had not been heard for more than a decade" wrote the "Thüringer Allgemeine"), then he went to the UK, where he played Rachmaninoff's Paganini Rhapsody with The Hallé under Nicolae Moldoveanu.In 2002, Bartoli produced the music for Fernando Pessoa's Book of disquiet, at the Festival d'Avignon in "Antonio Tabucchi", and was pianist, arranger and composer.