Chopin by Sophie Pacini

Frédéric Chopin

Sophie Pacini

Chopin

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533091
Catnr: AVI 8553309
Release date: 12 September 2014
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Label
CAvi

UPC
4260085533091

Catalogue number
AVI 8553309

Release date
12 September 2014

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About the album

More than any other genre in Chopin’s music, the nocturnes show him in his role as a charmer of the Paris salons.

The Nocturne op. 48/1 is one of Sophie Pacini’s favourite works: she still remembers it from a scene in the Academy-Awardwinning
film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. Tornatore’s cinematic masterpiece features a fragmented narrative structure that intermingles the past with the present – for instance by incorporating sequences from other films. Describing her success as a performer, Pacini puts it in a nutshell: ”I want to be a musical interpreter, not a keyboard daredevil”.

Artist(s)

Sophie Pacini

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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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition. He was a master in making the small form great. His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes all belong to the most popular standard works for piano ever written. As a child prodigy, Chopin grew up in a middle class family, who lived among the literati of Warsaw. When in 1830 the November Uprising broke out in Poland, the twenty year old Chopin stayed in Vienna. He became an exile and never returned to his mother country. He eventually settled in Paris. He avoided public concerts, but he did like performing in small settings, such as salons and at home for his friends. This way, Chopin built a reputation as an exceptional pianist, teacher and composer.
Chopin brought a unique synthesis between the Viennese bravado and the French/English lyric style. Even though his pieces often are technically very demanding, the focus was always on creating a lyric expression and poetic atmosphere. He invented the instrumental ballade, and brought salongenres to a higher level with his many innovations and refinements.

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