Sophie Pacini - Rimembranza (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 12 Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je Maman, K. 265 (300e)
02. Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 (300d) I. Allegro maestoso
03. Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 (300d) II. Andante cantabile con espressione
04. Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 (300d) III. Presto
05. Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 143 (D. 784) I. Allegro giusto
06. Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 143 (D. 784) II. Andante
07. Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 143 (D. 784) III. Allegro vivace
08. Impromptu No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 902 (D. 8992)
09. Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 903 (D. 8993)
10. Standchen, S. 560 (Transcription from Schubert's Schwanengesang No. 4, D. 957)
11. Love Theme from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso



"Music without memories is not possible", pianist Sophie Pacini confirms, and "Rimembranza" is the title she has chosen for her 6th solo album. Here the music is about hope and doubt, pain and liberation, bitter loss and especially memory. Mozart's mother died in Paris shortly before writing his sonata. His twelve variations on the French folk song "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman!" thus already bear the seed of the Sonata in A minor. "They are Mozart's rimembranza addressed to himself," she suggests. With their plaintive title that harks back to the past, these variations open the curtain on Sophie Pacini's album. Before it falls again, we hear.

Schubert's two Impromptus Op. 90: Sounding like fragments from his sonatas, "they strike our memory like two bittersweet rimembranzas from the past," she muses. The last act is introduced by Schubert's "Ständchen" on a love poem by Ludwig Rellstab. The subject of love closes it as well
album off; from the movie “Cinema Paradiso” we hear the love theme composed by the recently deceased Ennio Morricone and his son Andrea - a tribute to Sophie Pacini's second homeland, Italy.

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