Lorenzo Pone - Tribute to Paul Badura-Skoda (2025)

Native from Naples, Italy, pianist Lorenzo Pone lives in Salzburg and is one of the most highly acclaimed young pianists today. Having been a student of Paul Badura-Skoda’s for almost a decade, he dedicates his debut album “Tribute to Paul Badura-Skoda” to this great master. Universally praised for the distinctive quality of his sound and his formidable perfectionism, Pone presents among others piano sonatas which he worked on with Badura-Skoda during the last weeks of the latter’s life in 2019, among them the Sonata No. 51 by Joseph Haydn, the Grand Sonata No. 26 in A-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven, the Piano Sonata Op. 1 No. 10 by Lodovico Giustini and the Three Nocturnes Op. 15 by Frédéric Chopin. The program, which is derived from a piano reci-tal given at the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples in honor of Badura-Skoda in October, 2019, closes off with three pieces of Claude Debussy’s Préludes: Minstrels, La fille aux cheveux de lin and La Puerta del Vino.

TRACKLIST

1. Lorenzo Pone - Joseph Haydn - Sonata in D major Hob. XVI:51 - I - Andante
2. Lorenzo Pone - Joseph Haydn - Sonata in D major Hob. XVI:51 - II - Finale. Presto
3. Lorenzo Pone - Ludwig van Beethoven - Grand Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 - I - Andante con variazioni
4. Lorenzo Pone - Ludwig van Beethoven - Grand Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 - II - Scherzo. Allegro molto
5. Lorenzo Pone - Ludwig van Beethoven - Grand Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 - III - Marche Funèbre sulla morte d’un Eroe. Maestoso andante
6. Lorenzo Pone - Ludwig van Beethoven - Grand Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 - IV - Allegro
7. Lorenzo Pone - Lodovico Giustini - Sonata in F minor, Op. 1, No. 10 - I - Allemanda I
8. Lorenzo Pone - Lodovico Giustini - Sonata in F minor, Op. 1, No. 10 - II - Canzona
9. Lorenzo Pone - Lodovico Giustini - Sonata in F minor, Op. 1, No. 10 - III - Allemanda II
10. Lorenzo Pone - Lodovico Giustini - Sonata in F minor, Op. 1, No. 10 - IV - Corrente
11. Lorenzo Pone - Frédéric Chopin - Three Nocturnes, Op. 15 - I - in F major. Andante cantabile
12. Lorenzo Pone - Frédéric Chopin - Three Nocturnes, Op. 15 - II - in F-sharp major. Larghetto
13. Lorenzo Pone - Frédéric Chopin - Three Nocturnes, Op. 15 - III - in G minor. Lento
14. Lorenzo Pone - Claude Debussy - Minstrels
15. Lorenzo Pone - Claude Debussy - La fille aux cheveux de lin
16. Lorenzo Pone - Claude Debussy - La Puerta del Vino