Solo Piano - Beethoven & Liszt

Sophie Pacini

Released on 09/09/2016 by Warner Classics
Main artists: Sophie Pacini
Genre: Classical

Digital booklet

Available in

24-Bit/96 kHz Stereo

Unlimited Streaming

Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps

Start my trial period and start listening to this album

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Digital Download

Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.

The young pianist Sophie Pacini has been touted as the next big thing by Martha Argerich, something that should make you sit up and take notice. The evidence from this album is positive. The pairing of Beethoven and Liszt, the Viennese theme-worker and the exotic Parisian showman, is not that common today, but it certainly would have been in Liszt's own time, and Liszt might easily have played this exact program (and enjoyed the way Pacini plays it). Pacini opens with the Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein"), given a detailed reading that isolates all the sixteenth notes and emphasizes the work's poetic qualities, as if to whet the appetite for the fireworks to come. And come they do, although this is rather poetic Liszt itself, not the keyboard-pounding stuff. Again, this is something with which Liszt would have had no problem. Pacini's strength lies in capturing the breadth of Liszt's conceptions, which would have seemed as amazing as his keyboard heroics to listeners of his own time. Sample the relatively rarely recorded transcription of the Overture to Wagner's Tannhäuser, which shows you something both of Liszt's pianism and of Pacini's. With fine sound from the Sendesaal Bremen, Warner Classics propels its young find to the front of the pack of new pianists.

© TiVo

More info

Solo Piano - Beethoven & Liszt

Sophie Pacini

You are currently listening to samples.

Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.

Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.

From £10.83/month

Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein" (Ludwig van Beethoven)

I. Allegro con brio

00:11:04

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Sophie Pacini, Piano, MainArtist

II. Introduzione. Adagio molto

00:04:05

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Sophie Pacini, Piano, MainArtist

III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo

00:09:52

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Sophie Pacini, Piano, MainArtist

6 Consolations, S. 172 (Franz Liszt)

No. 1 in E Major

00:01:37