New album 'Golden Dreams' out !
Born in a family of musicians from Italy, Fanny Azzuro’s sonority has absorbed something of the warmth and colours of her native country. This first album Golden Dreams, under the naïve label, an escapade filled with resonances, put these qualities to their best possible use.
The pianist puts into perspective two great cycles written in the 19th century, two sets of twenty-four Preludes, the essential Opus 28 by Frédéric Chopin which dates from the years 1838 and 1839, and Opus 11 by Alexander Scriabin, composed between 1888 and 1896, direct homage to the previous one: two cycles of short pieces, similar in structure, organised according to a circle of ascending fifths where each major tonality is followed by its relative minor.
Fanny Azzuro advocates a light touch, rooting her interpretation in the art of singing and a subtle and discreet form of breathing in these forty-eight Preludes, perfectly readable in their polyphonies and clear in their colours. The “urgency of a existential, exalted quest, so close to faith” that the pianist hears in both Chopin and Scriabin, is revealed in all its acuteness.
