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Supporting new talents is in Alpha’s DNA. Here is the very first recording of the Italian pianist Filippo Gorini, who was recently awarded First Prize in the Telekom-Beethoven Competition in Bonn. He has also won the same competition’s Audience Prize twice over.
At just twenty years of age, he has already played in such prestigious venues as the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Die Glocke in Bremen, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Moscow Conservatory. Strongly supported by Alfred Brendel, with whom he studies, he has chosen to tackle a monument of the piano repertory, the Diabelli Variations, a work whose interpretation he has matured through frequent performance, notably at the Beethoven Competition where it was the key item in his winning programme. And, appropriately, it is at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn that he made this first disc, the start of a highly promising recording career.
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Technique: 3/5
Patrick Szersnovicz - 10 Years of Diapason D’or (France) – December 2017
ICMA Solo Instrument Category Nominee
2018 International Classical Music Awards
Performance ***** Recording *****
"This is, it soon becomes evident, one of the great interpretations of one of Beethoven's most invigoration, far-ranging and finally ethereal works... this is a triumphant success."
Michael Tanner - BBC Music magazine - Christmas 2017
Marco Frei - Piano News magazine (Germany) - November/December 2017
"Beethoven's massive and confounding Diabelli Variations isn't the obvious choice for a debut disc, but the young Italian pianist Filippo Gorini seems drawn to the strange drama of this martial little tune and its mysterious decorations... It is brave, original playing for a musician of any age." *****
Kate Molleson - The Guardian - 18 August 2017
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