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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Maurizio Pollini - Chopin Recital
Chopin holds a pre-eminent place in Pollini's career; in 1960 he was awarded the first prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and appeared in the same year at La Scala, Milan, playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto under Sergiu Celibidache. This was the start of his extraordinary musical career. Despite this huge success, Pollini ceased performing Chopin in order not to become stamped as a mere Chopin interpreter. But he returned to him many times later Maurizio Pollini says that Chopin composed almost exclusively masterpieces and that he didn't tolerate music that had no thinking behind it. After the successful release of the complete Chopin Nocturnes in 2005 (Echo Award, Grammy, Victoires de la Musique Classique Award), the Italian maestro again turns his attention to Chopin: he has re-recorded the famous Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35 (recorded in 1984 and released in 1986) and the Ballade no. 2 in F (recorded and released in 1999) and added the Mazurkas op. 33, Waltzes op. 34 and Impromptu no. 2 in F sharp major, op. 36. All of these works were composed in a relatively late phase of Chopin’s career (1834–1839) and display the great variety of his art The message is simple: one of the greatest pianists of our times interprets Chopin, a composer that moves both classical music connoisseurs as well as a wider audience. As Pollini says: "I play Chopin more freely than I did in my youth, or at the time of the Chopin competition. I like my old recordings, but some of them strike me today as rather straight." Reason enough to make classical-music fans curious to hear how Pollini's Chopin sounds nowadays Pollini’s Nocturnes sold + 91.000 units worldwide and achieved Gold status in Italy | 
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| |  | Great Pianists - Moiseiwitsch 12Chopin Recordings Volume 2 (1938-1952)
Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) This second volume of Moiseiwitsch’s Chopin recordings focuses on the complete Préludes, Op. 28, which the great pianist had attempted to record, unsuccessfully, with the acoustic process, and the Four Ballades. The recording of the complete Préludes is one of the most satisfactory on disc, as Moiseiwitsch captures perfectly the mood of each of these miniature masterpieces. The slower preludes in particular show Moiseiwitsch’s understanding of musical phrasing linked to harmonic progressions. The recording of the Ballade No. 4, his only 78rpm recording of the work, derives from a test pressing. All tracks were recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London |
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| |  | The Great Pianists Volume 6 - Eugène d’Albert
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| |  | Chopin - The Original Piano Roll Recordings
Chopin: | Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre' 3rd movement Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4 Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Prelude No. 1, Op. 28 Largo, Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 10 Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21 Prelude No. 24, Op. 28 Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 Mazurka No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 50 No. 2 Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key' Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Prelude No. 15 in D flat ‘Raindrop' Op. 28 No. 15 Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Mazurka No. 34 in C major, Op. 56 No. 2 Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3 Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36 Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 |
Alfred Cortot, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Fanny Zeisler, Ignaz Friedman, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir de Pachmann, Leopold Godowsky, Guiomar Novaes, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Eugène d'Albert | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Great Pianists - Cortot78 rpm recordings - volume 5
Chopin: | Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Recorded 7th June, 1929, London Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Recorded 11th March, 1929, London Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Recorded 19th March, 1929, London Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 Recorded 17th October, 1951, London Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Recorded 20th April, 1948, London Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 Recorded 17th October, 1951, London Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 Recorded 9th October, 1947, London Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 Recorded 15th October, 1947, London |
“The great French pianist famous for…. His magical touch and lovely singing tone and a flexibility of phrasing and movement as natural as breathing.” The Sunday Times | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Chopin: | Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 13 Preludes from Op. 28 Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 | Schumann: | Humoreske, Op. 20 Abegg Variations, Op. 1 | Weber: | Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op.49 |
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Recordings made in Moscow 1950-1955 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Roland Pöntinen plays Chopin
Chopin: | Boléro, Op. 19 Mazurka No. 20 in D flat major, Op. 30 No. 3 Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 Mazurka No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4 Mazurka No. 33 in B major, Op. 56 No. 1 Mazurka No. 34 in C major, Op. 56 No. 2 Mazurka No. 35 in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3 Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4 |
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| |  | The Young Ashkenazy Vol. 2
Chopin: | Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Mazurka No. 21 in C sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 4 Mazurka No. 29 in A flat major, Op. 41 No. 4 Mazurka No. 35 in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3 Mazurka No. 36 in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1 Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1 Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' | Liszt: | Transcendental Study, S139 No. 4 'Mazeppa' Mephisto Waltz No. 1 | Prokofiev: | Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83 | Rachmaninov: | Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42 |
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| |  | Chopin: | Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4 Prelude in D major, Op. 28, No. 5 Prelude No. 7, Op. 28 Prelude in B minor, Op. 28, No. 6 Prelude No. 9, Op. 28 Prelude in C minor, Op. 28, No. 10 Prelude in B minor, Op. 28, No. 11 Prelude No. 19, Op. 28 Prelude No. 17 in A flat major, Op. 28 No. 17 Prelude No. 23 Prelude, Op. 28 No. 8 Prelude No. 24, Op. 28 Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 3 Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 |
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| |  | Anatole Kitain - The Complete Columbia Recordings 1936-39
plus works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin & Schumann
On the evidence of these 26 titles, lovingly remastered in almost uniformly remarkable sound, here is one of the major pianists of the century... I would definitely put this important release into my "Top Fifty All-time Great Piano recordings" without a doubt. Classic CD (UK) | | APR - APR7029 (CD - 2 discs) Normally: £16.49 (£14.03 ex. VAT) Special: £12.36 (£10.52 ex. VAT) |
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