Elia Cecino - Brahms- Piano Works (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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. Elia Cecino - Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1: I. Allegro
2. Elia Cecino - Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1: II. Andante
3. Elia Cecino - Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco - Più mosso
4. Elia Cecino - Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
5. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Thema. Ziemlich langsam
6. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 1, L'istesso tempo
7. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 2, Poco più moto
8. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 3, Tempo di team
9. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 4, Poco più moto
10. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 5, Allegro capriccioso
11. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 6, Allegro
12. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 7, Andante
13. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 8, Andante non troppo lento
14. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 9, Schnell
15. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 10, Poco adagio
16. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 11, Un poco più animato
17. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 12, Allegretto, poco scherzando - Presto
18. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 13, Non troppo presto
19. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 14, Andante
20. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 15, Poco adagio
21. Elia Cecino - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9: Var. 16, Adagio
22. Elia Cecino - 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 1, Intermezzo. Adagio
23. Elia Cecino - 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 2, Intermezzo. Andantino un poco agitato
24. Elia Cecino - 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 3, Intermezzo. Grazioso e giocoso
25. Elia Cecino - 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119: No. 4, Rhapsody. Allegro risoluto



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