Paderewski: Sonata in E flat minor Op. 21 & Humoresques de concert

There are at least three good reasons for investing in this fine recording. First, there is the prospect of hearing 10 of Paderewski’s best works for solo piano played on his own instrument...Second,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: NIFCCD057
Label: Frederick Chopin Institute
Length: 70 minutes

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October 2018

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Paderewski: Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21

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II. Andante ma non troppo

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III. Allegro vivace

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The Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s new recording series has been given the name ‘Resonance’. Figuratively, this word means a reaction to something, a response, a reverberation, an echo…

The music we present in this series is a response, a more or less obvious reaction to the music of Fryderyk Chopin. We find a clear trace of Chopin’s legacy in the music of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and it is with him, on the 100th anniversary of Poland’s regaining of independence, that we begin our new phonographic series.

The recording contains remarkable works for piano: the Sonata in E-flat minor op. 21 as well as popular miniatures in the interpretation of eminent American pianist Kevin Kenner, the winner of the 1990 Chopin Competition. The artist plays a 1925 Steinway piano that once belonged to Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

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October 2018

There are at least three good reasons for investing in this fine recording. First, there is the prospect of hearing 10 of Paderewski’s best works for solo piano played on his own instrument...Second, there is the inclusion of Paderewski’s Op 1...Third, and most persuasively, there is the playing of Kevin Kenner.

January 2019

...the finest modern performance of the 1903 Sonata, a staggering piece, recorded like the rest of the album on Paderewski’s own 1925 Steinway. For the first movement, think Liszt but with more block chords; Paderewski counters this muscularity with a tender slow movement, while Kenner crowns the performance with a magnificently impassioned yet fizzing finale. An eye-opening winner of a disc.

Paderewski: Sonata in E flat minor Op. 21 & Humoresques de concert

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