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Title: Brahms: Piano Works
Artist: Cecino, Elia
Label: Ibs Classical
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8436597700962
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-06-20
Number of Discs: 1

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~I. Allegro
1.2 Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~II. Andante
1.3 Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco - Più mosso
1.4 Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1~IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco
1.5 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Thema. Ziemlich langsam
1.6 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 1. L'istesso tempo
1.7 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 2. Poco più moto. Espressivo
1.8 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 3. Tempo di tema
1.9 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 4. Poco più mosso
1.10 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 5. Allegro capriccioso
1.11 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 6. Allegro
1.12 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 7. Andante
1.13 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 8. Andante. Non troppo lento
1.14 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 9. Schnell
1.15 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 10. Poco Adagio
1.16 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 11. Un poco più animato
1.17 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 12. Allegretto, poco scherzando - Presto
1.18 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 13. Non troppo Presto
1.19 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 14. Andante
1.20 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 15. Poco Adagio - Espressivo
1.21 Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F sharp minor, Op. 9~Variation 16. Adagio
1.22 Klavierstück, Op. 119~I. Intermezzo in B minor
1.23 Klavierstück, Op. 119~II. Intermezzo in E minor
1.24 Klavierstück, Op. 119~III. Intermezzo in C major
1.25 Klavierstück, Op. 119~IV. Rhapsodie in E-flat