This page lists all recordings of Prelude Op. 28 No. 9 in E major, by Frédéric François Chopin (1810-49) on CD, SACD, DVD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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Master pianist Maurizio Pollini turned 70 on January 5th, 2012 and DG are celebrating this milestone birthday with a new album of breath-taking Chopin. Pollini’s Chopin recordings are his best-sellers – the complete Nocturnes, released in 2005, have sold more than 100,000 CDs to date. Chopin: Preludes is a birthday programme of newly recorded solo works: Preludes op.28, four Mazurkas op.30, two Nocturnes op.27, and the Scherzo no.2 op.31. Pollini often feature Chopin’s works in his solo recitals – The Guardian raved, “... he still plays Chopin with the ease that floored even Rubinstein more than 50 years ago ...” “His sense of phrasing, structure and pacing is undimmed...There are other accounts of the 24 Preludes that are more impassioned, more vividly imagined and coloured, but few are more pure or devoted. Recorded sound is excellent. The fingers are not entirely all they used to be in terms of nimbleness, but that isn't too intrusive.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2013 **** “The best of it, especially the B flat minor Scherzo, is superb, the virtuosity effortless, the grip on the formal structure utterly secure, but elsewhere...there's sometimes a chilly relentlessness about the playing, an impatience almost, that keeps the music at a distance.” The Guardian, 1st November 2012 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28
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| |  | Chopin: Preludes & Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3
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| |  | Chopin: Nocturnes & Preludes
“The sum effect of these performances is exciting, deeply personal and often moving. I doubt that anyone who knows and loves Chopin’s music will find Francois’s approach less than absorbing.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin: 4 Scherzi & 13 Preludesrecorded in Tokyo 1977-9
“Immense, yet light-fingered keyboard power from Richter, whose mastery opens out great vistas of space around the music.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Hélène Tysman plays Chopin
Hélène Tysman has the ability to take the listener’s hand, at the outset of a Prélude or of a Sonata movement, and to lead and hold your attention until the very last bar, due to the outstanding range of colours she conjures up. She studied at the Paris Conservatory and has performed with many orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sheila Arnold plays Chopin
Sheila Arnold’s performances show Chopin’s works in a new light; through the thrilling grasps of the perfomer, born in India and now a German pianist, who grapples intensively with historical instruments on all levels, producing a different sound and a complete new dimension on the pieces. She performs on an Érard Fortepiano (Paris 1839). | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin chez Pleyel
A journey into Chopin's world . . . On 21 February 1842, the Polish composer gave one of his very rare concerts: he did not enjoy appearing in public, for his music was above all a chamber art. Alain Planès has striven to recreate the programme of this concert as closely as possible and recorded it on a Pleyel piano of 1836 that the composer might have played.The questions he throws up in the process are fascinating: how did Chopin play? Apart from his famous rubato, what was the role of ornamentation, and indeed improvisation? “The revelations stem from the admirable restraint of Planès's playing...The Nocturnes... combine elegance with profundity, while the selection from the Op 25 Etudes is exquisitely done.” The Guardian, 7th January 2010 **** “…Planès himself works poetic magic, with wonderfully paced phrasing and a style of rubato replete with beautifully judged elasticity and grace; and he has explored Chopin's approach to improvised ornamentation to tasteful effect. There's not a meaningless note in the whole disc.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2010 ***** “Alain Planès...is obviously at home with the instrument, and plays finely. He also makes a gallant attempt at recapturing Chopin’s famously fluid style of playing. The A flat ballade is particularly pleasing.” Sunday Times, 28th February 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - Préludes
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| |  | Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28
Wojciech Switala has won prizes in a number of international competitions: in Bardolino, Italy (First Prize), the Long/Thibaud in Paris (Second Grand Prix, audience prize, prize for the leading European) and the Montreal Piano Competition. In the Twelfth Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (1990) he received the prize for the best performance of a polonaise. The disc features new recordings of the 24 Preludes, Op. 28 made on a Pleyel piano from 1848 and Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise in E flat major, Op. 22 made on an Erard piano from 1849. Recorded in Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, 11–13 November 2006 and 4 May 2007. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2011