THE FIRST ALBUM FROM THE SONATA FOR 7 CITIES

Thirty-year-old pianist Filippo Gorini releases Sonata for 7 Cities: live in Vienna, the first recording chapter from his international musical and social project

Today, January 30, the first single is released and digital pre-orders open for the album featuring sonatas by Schubert, Gervasoni and Beethoven for Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France

Digital release on Friday, February 27

To inhabit a city through music, to listen to its voices, and to return its energy in a live recital.
Sonata for 7 Cities: live in Vienna is the new album by thirty-year-old pianist Filippo Gorini for Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France, marking the discographic starting point of Sonata for 7 Cities, an international initiative conceived by Gorini that unfolds across seven cities worldwide, combining musical research with social engagement.

Recorded live in Vienna, the first stop of the project, the album presents a programme pairing Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in C major D 840 “Reliquie”, the Piano Sonata by Italian composer Stefano Gervasoni, specially commissioned for the Viennese residency, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, op. 111.

Today, January 30, digital pre-orders for the album open, accompanied by the release of the first single: the third movement, Allegretto, from Schubert’s “Reliquie” Sonata.
The album will be available digitally from Friday, February 27, while a physical box set is planned for release upon completion of all seven recorded chapters of the project.

This album documents the first stage of Sonata for 7 Cities, a multi-year project awarded the Franco Buitoni Award in 2023, which in each city involves a residency of approximately one month and an active presence in the local cultural and social life.
In 2025, in addition to Vienna, Gorini has already travelled to South Africa and Hong Kong, bringing the same approach to profoundly different cultural and social contexts. The project will continue in March with its fourth stop in Portland (USA), where the recital programme will be accompanied by an extensive set of educational and musical activities, in line with the social and outreach-driven vision underpinning the entire cycle.

The concert documented in Sonata for 7 Cities: live in Vienna took place on February 26, 2025, in the Mozart Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, and represented the culmination of the Viennese residency.

During the recording process, particular attention was given to achieving a sound capable of reacting vividly to the finest timbral nuances, while retaining a concrete, almost physical energy. As Gorini himself explains, «it is this living, unrepeatable dimension of the encounter between performer, music and community that the albums of Sonata for 7 Cities seek to preserve. They are not simply documents of concerts, but traces of real encounters between music, places and people, made possible through shared time and the relationships built within each city».

During his time in Vienna, alongside the official recitals, Gorini brought the same programme to schools and social institutions, including care homes and soup kitchens, offering concerts and shared listening experiences in places where classical music rarely reaches.
With Sonata for 7 Cities: live in Vienna, Filippo Gorini inaugurates a discography that narrates, city after city, an idea of music as presence, relationship and deep listening—constantly in dialogue with the places and the people who inhabit them.

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