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Carnaval Op. 9, Intermezzi Op. 4 & Sonata in B Minor
Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt

Sophie Pacini

Carnaval Op. 9, Intermezzi Op. 4 & Sonata in B Minor

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085532698
Catnr: AVI 8553269
Release date: 07 August 2012
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Label
CAvi
UPC
4260085532698
Catalogue number
AVI 8553269
Release date
07 August 2012
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Disco d'esordio per la pupilla di Martha Argerich, che di lei ha detto: "Mi ricordi molto me stessa da giovane".

Artist(s)

Sophie Pacini (piano)

Sophie Pacini graduated with honors from Salzburg Mozarteum, where she studied in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Pavel Gililov; during her studies she also actively participated in masterclasses given by Dmitri Bashkirov and Fou Ts'ong. In 2010 she met Martha Argerich, who invited her to perform at the Progetto Martha Argerich festival in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in 1991 in Munich, Sophie Pacini makes regular appearances at distinguished music venues including the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Zurich Tonhalle, the Herkulessaal in Munich and the Berlin Konzerthaus. The renowned music festivals of Lockenhaus, Salzburg and Schwetzingen have invited her as a guest performer. Appearances with orchestras such as the Dresden Philharmonic, the Lucerne Symphony, Niedersächsischer Staatsorchester Hannover and the Tokyo Philharmonic have counted among the highlights in her career. Sophie Pacini has...
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Sophie Pacini graduated with honors from Salzburg Mozarteum, where she studied in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Pavel Gililov; during her studies she also actively participated in masterclasses given by Dmitri Bashkirov and Fou Ts'ong. In 2010 she met Martha Argerich, who invited her to perform at the Progetto Martha Argerich festival in Lugano, Switzerland.
Born in 1991 in Munich, Sophie Pacini makes regular appearances at distinguished music venues including the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Zurich Tonhalle, the Herkulessaal in Munich and the Berlin Konzerthaus. The renowned music festivals of Lockenhaus, Salzburg and Schwetzingen have invited her as a guest performer.
Appearances with orchestras such as the Dresden Philharmonic, the Lucerne Symphony, Niedersächsischer Staatsorchester Hannover and the Tokyo Philharmonic have counted among the highlights in her career.
Sophie Pacini has won a number of prizes including the Groupe Edmund de Rothschild Prize at the Gstaad Musical Summit, which led to a recording of Schumann and Mozart piano concertos with the German State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz. In 2011 she was awarded the Deutschlandfunk Advancement Prize at the Musikfest Bremen, which led to her first solo piano recording featuring works by Schumann and Liszt, released by CAvi-Music in 2012.
The Dortmund Mozart Society has sponsored Sophie Pacini with a scholarship since 2013.

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Composer(s)

Franz Liszt

If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an...
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If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an advocate of both old and new music.
Together with his son-in-law Richard Wagner, he was in the forefront of the Romantic movement and anticipated the musical revolutions of the early 20th century with his new composition techniques.


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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in...
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Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Carnaval, Symphonic Studies, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and the Fantasie in C are among his most famous. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
In 1840, Schumann married Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara, against the wishes of her father, following a long and acrimonious legal battle, which found in favour of Clara and Robert. Clara also composed music and had a considerable concert career as a pianist, the earnings from which, before her marriage, formed a substantial part of her father's fortune.
Schumann suffered from a mental disorder, first manifesting itself in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode, which recurred several times alternating with phases of ‘exaltation’ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted to a mental asylum, at his own request, in Endenich near Bonn. Diagnosed with "psychotic melancholia", Schumann died two years later in 1856 without having recovered from his mental illness.

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01.
Carnaval Op. 9: Préambule. Quasi Maestoso
02:10
02.
Carnaval Op. 9: Pierrot. Moderato
01:51
03.
Carnaval Op. 9: Arlequin. Vivo
01:08
04.
Carnaval Op. 9: Valse Noble. Un Poco Maestoso
01:59
05.
Carnaval Op. 9: Eusebius. Adagio
01:47
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Carnaval Op. 9: Florestan. Passionato
00:51
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Carnaval Op. 9: Coquette. Vivo
01:43
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Carnaval Op. 9: Réplique. L'istesso Tempo (Sphinxes)
00:52
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Carnaval Op. 9: Papillons. Prestissimo
00:41
10.
Carnaval Op. 9: A.s.c.h. - S.c.h.a. (Lettres Dansantes). Presto
00:54
11.
Carnaval Op. 9: Chiarina. Passionato
01:25
12.
Carnaval Op. 9: Chopin. Agitato
01:04
13.
Carnaval Op. 9: Estrella. Con Affeto
00:28
14.
Carnaval Op. 9: Reconnaissance. Animato
01:47
15.
Carnaval Op. 9: Pantalon Et Colombine. Presto
01:00
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Carnaval Op. 9: Valse Allemande. Molto Vivace
00:58
17.
Carnaval Op. 9: Paganini. Presto
01:24
18.
Carnaval Op. 9: Aveu. Passionato
01:16
19.
Carnaval Op. 9: Promenade. Con Moto
02:29
20.
Carnaval Op. 9: Pause (Intervall). Presto
00:17
21.
Carnaval Op. 9: Marche Des
03:37
22.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Allegro Quasi Maestoso
03:15
23.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Presto E Capriccioso
04:16
24.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Allegro Marcato
03:29
25.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Allegretto Semplice
01:15
26.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Allegro moderato
04:03
27.
Intermezzi Op. 4 (1832): Allegro
02:55
28.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S 178: Lento Assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso
07:26
29.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S 178: Allegro energico - Andante sostenuto
10:47
30.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S 178: Allegro energico - Più Mosso
05:37
31.
Piano Sonata in B Minor S 178: Stretta (Quasi presto) - Prestissimo - Andante sostenuto
04:42
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