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Elia Cecino - Brahms: Pno Works [CD]

Elia Cecino - Brahms: Pno Works [CD]

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The album you hold in your hands charts a journey that is, in more than one sense, the cartography of a life. Not only does it span both the first and one of the last piano works of Johannes Brahms, but beneath it's design lies a deeper meditation on the nature of time.The young Italian pianist Elia Cecino does not merely confront the pianistic and expressive challenges of these works; he assumes the role of a narrator, shaping, through the poetry of sound, a tale of fullness and nostalgia, of youth and age, of promises and memories dissolving into the ether. The Sonata No. 1, written in the ardor of youth, still resounds with echoes of Beethoven-it opens with a direct citation from the Hammerklavier-revealing a Brahms who raises his voice with impassioned fervor, boldly claiming the great classical legacy with the audacity of one who knows he has something to say. At the heart of the program, the Variations on a Theme by Schumann dwell in a space of reverence and sorrow, where a more mature Brahms converses with his friend and mentor in a gesture of tribute and love, of confidences and affinities, of encounters and brotherhood. Finally, the Pieces, Op. 119 transport us to a realm where the urgency of performance and virtuosity has given way to the most intimate contemplation, a kind of personal, confessional journal, in which every note is almost a whisper, a thought suspended in time.Through these three great works, Elia traces the arc of a life and, in doing so, invites us to share in the experience of an entire existence in each listening-to traverse, in little more than an hour, the distance that separates youth from twilight, certainty from doubt, fullness from farewell.

Tracklist:

  1. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~I. Allegro
  2. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~II. Andante
  3. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco - Più mosso
  4. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
  5. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Thema. Ziemlich langsam
  6. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  7. L'istesso tempo
  8. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  9. Poco più moto. Espressivo
  10. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  11. Tempo di tema
  12. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  13. Poco più mosso
  14. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  15. Allegro capriccioso
  16. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  17. Allegro
  18. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  19. Andante
  20. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  21. Andante. Non troppo lento
  22. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation
  23. Schnell
  24. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  25. Poco Adagio
  26. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  27. Un poco più animato
  28. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  29. Allegretto, poco scherzando - Presto
  30. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  31. Non troppo Presto
  32. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  33. Andante
  34. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  35. Poco Adagio - Espressivo
  36. Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1
  37. Adagio
  38. Klavierstück, Op. 119~I. Intermezzo in B minor
  39. Klavierstück, Op. 119~II. Intermezzo in E minor
  40. Klavierstück, Op. 119~III. Intermezzo in C major
  41. Klavierstück, Op. 119~IV. Rhapsodie in E-flat

UPC: 8436597700962
Label: Ibs Classical
Release Date: 6.20.25
Format: CD

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