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.61 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 programme, which is derived from a piano recital given at the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples in honour 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.