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Sonata for 7 Cities: Live in Hong Kong
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Sonata for 7 Cities: Live in Hong Kong

Filippo Gorini: Seven Cities, One Unforgettable Recital.

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Artists Filippo Gorini

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Sonata for 7 Cities is Filippo Gorini's yearlong project of month-long residencies in seven cities. This live album comes from the Hong Kong leg.

During a month there, as the guest of Premiere Performances Hong Kong (October 23 to November 25, 2025), he combined concerts, teaching and outreach. He played for homeless shelters, a blind community and underprivileged children, as well as for conventional audiences. The centerpiece was this City Hall recital, which Gorini describes as a journey "from pure adrenaline to sublime poetry," linked by a hidden thread of repeated notes.

The program opens with the premiere of Beat Furrer's Studie IV für Klaviersolo, a nervy tour de force of chromatic clusters and erratic rhythms that collapses into mysterious quiet. Brahms's late Fantasien, Op. 116 follows, alternating eruptive capriccios with fragile intermezzos in an autumnal, retrospective mood.

After the break comes Schubert's Sonata in G major, D. 894, the "divinely long" piece Schumann admired, warm and introspective and ending in quiet peace. Recorded live at Hong Kong City Hall, the album captures the particular energy of a recital given in the middle of an extraordinary month.

Filippo Gorini, Piano

Tracklist

Total time: 01:26:38

1. Studie IV für Klaviersolo
14:10
2. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 1, Capriccio. Presto energico
02:25
3. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 2, Intermezzo. Andante
04:41
4. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 3, Capriccio. Allegro passionato
03:29
5. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 4, Intermezzo. Adagio
05:40
6. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 5, Intermezzo. Andante con grazia ed intimissimo sentimento
03:29
7. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 6, Intermezzo. Andantino teneramente
03:39
8. 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: No. 7, Capriccio. Allegro agitato
02:32
9. Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894: I. Molto moderato e cantabile
21:41
10. Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894: II. Andante
10:05
11. Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894: III. Menuetto. Allegro moderato - Trio
04:44
12. Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894: IV. Allegretto
10:03

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Additional Information

Label
Alpha Classics
SKU
ALPHA1263
Qualities
DXD 24 Bit, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 128, WAV 96 kHz, DSD 64
Channels
2ch Stereo
Artists
Filippo Gorini
Composers
Brahms, Schubert
Genres
Classical
Original Recording Format
PCM 96k
Instruments
Piano
Recording Location
Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
Producer
Francesco Parolo
Recording Engineer
Francesco Parolo
Release Date
October 09, 2026
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Sonata for 7 Cities: Live in Hong Kong

Sonata for 7 Cities: Live in Hong Kong

€29,99 EUR

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