New CD Release by Italian Pianist Roberta Pili

The Italian pianist Roberta Pili presents her new Album titled „Mirrors“.
The production has been released as a triple-CD Box on her own Label Roberta Pili Piano Records®. The live recording was realized during a solo piano recital in Germany, gaining high praise by the press and critics.
When choosing a programme for a solo piano recital, Roberta Pili always combines works that build a musical and historical line as well as contrasting characters of the pieces.
The album is now available on several online music stores, on the artst´s website thepianist.com and through general distributor for Austria Gramola.

The CD recording will be officially presented on February 28th in Vienna at Gramola Dacapo,
Dr. Walter Gürtelschmied will be conducting a live interview with the artist.

Roberta Pili - "MIRRORS"
Triple CD Box
The first of the three CDs faces two masters of the piano literature, Bach and Beethoven, and their later works: The sixth Partita in e-minor BWV 830, and the thirtieth Piano Sonata in E-Major Op.109.
The second CD shows two interesting combinations of piano works, where “baroque” and “romanticism” are perfectly reflecting the theme, even using different characters in the variations - C.P.E. Bach Variations on the Theme
“La Folia” and S. Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.42.
Where Handel wrote variations on his own theme in the Suite for Harpsichord No.1 in B-Flat Major HWV 434 (1733), Brahms was indeed inspired by his baroque melody “Air”, and composed a wonderful masterpiece, the Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel Op.24.
These works can be listened in the third CD.
When Romanticism is facing Baroque, variations are facing a theme and musical structures are aesthetically reflected, and characters are contrasting and at the same time being similar to each other, we can really and truly speak about “Mirrors”…

Roberta Pili – „MIRRORS“

CD 1
J.S. Bach - Partita No.6 E-Minor BWV 830
L.v. Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.30 E-Major Op.109

CD 2
C.P.E. Bach - 12 Variations auf die Folie d´Espagne
S. Rachmaninoff – Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.42

CD 3
G.F. Handel - Prelude, Sonata und Air mit Variationen B-Dur HWV 434/1-3
J. Brahms - Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Händel Op.24

Live Recording
Roberta Pili – Piano
CD No. RPPR2001
Roberta Pili Piano Records®

RPPR
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VITA
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Roberta Pili comes from a musical family background. She had her first piano lesson at the age of five with her father, a musician and piano teacher. At the age of eight she won three first prizes at national youth piano competitions.
At the age of eleven she began her studies at the music conservatory of her hometown with Angela Pintor, a student of Lodovico Lessona, who was one of the best pupils of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
She made her first public appearance at the age of twelve with a solo recital
in Cagliari.
During her studies Roberta Pili won several other prizes at national piano competitions in Italy. At the age of seventeen she concluded her studies at the Conservatory with the highest degree and honours.
Masterclasses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy with Joaquin Achucarro and Paul Badura-Skoda led her to further studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Badura-Skoda. She completed her musical education with the Concert Diploma and Master of Arts.

She also received lessons from Jürgen Uhde, Dmitri Bashkirov, Dafydd Llywelyn.
Roberta Pili won several prizes at international piano competitions.
She performed at renowned international music festivals and toured through Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, USA and Canada.
Roberta Pili´s wide repertoire ranges from Bach to Berio and includes the complete cycle of the 32 piano Sonatas by Beethoven.
Her new CD recording ( triple-CD , Live recording ) is released on her own label "RPPR" Roberta Pili Piano Records.
It is the part one of a recording trilogy titled "The mirrors trilogy" and contains works of solo piano literature which Roberta Pili has accurately selected and combined, following a philosophic and historical reflection of different music styles.

More information: Roberta Pili – www.thepianist.com

This release was published on openPR.