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A film by Phil Grabsky + Interviews with Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner, Janusz Olejniczak and Marc Destrubé. On February 26, 2010 a historic concert took place in Warsaw, the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin. During the course of that single evening all the works written by this composer for piano with orchestra were performed, with participants of the highest calibre. Furthermore, the event took place under the auspices of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, with the knowledge and experience of engineers from Polish Radio and with the creativity of the film-maker Phil Grabsky, whose cameras were placed amongst the musicians of the orchestra. All this enabled the full magic of a historic event to be captured in both image and sound. Playing an Érard piano dating from 1849, the pianists Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner and Janusz Olejniczak, alongside the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen, each performed each of the six works which the young Chopin composed in order for them to be displayed before the demanding public of his own country. With such works Chopin’s fame as a great piano virtuoso was to become established elsewhere. Performances of the two famous Concertos, in E minor and F minor, are joined here by the less-famous but notwithstanding highly-attractive works, such as the Variations on ‘Là ci darem la mano’, from Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’, or the ‘Fantasy on Polish Airs’. Completing the film of this event is a series of interviews with the soloists, and with Marc Destrubé, the orchestra’s leader. “this was one of the most memorable concerts in my experience. Revisiting it through this live recording is something I cherish. Happily, it stands up to scrutiny away from the special atmosphere of that occasion...[Kenner] plays with poetry, virtuosic fluency and a searching quality ideal in this music...But the Argentinian Nelson Goerner is the hero of the concerto, bringing superb style to four works that, if anything, are tougher than the concertos.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Chopin’s youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary talent. Eldar Nebolsin’s recording of Liszt’s piano concertos (8570517) was ranked ‘among the finest’ by Gramophone. AUDIO Recorded and edited in HIGH DEFINITION 24-bit, 88.2 kHz PCM Surround. Presented in HIGH DEFINITION 24-BIT 96 KHZ DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 Surround PCM Stereo 2.0 Total Running Time: 67.42 “Nebolsin [is] comfortably among the finest interpreters of his generation. The Concerto No. 1 can hold its head up alongside almost any performance.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2011 ***** | | Naxos - NBD0011 (Blu-ray audio) Normally: $15.00 Special: $12.00 |
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Chopin’s youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the teenage performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary virtuosity. Its ravishing Romanza (‘reviving in one’s soul beautiful memories’, as the composer described it) is framed by an opening movement rich in dramatic lyricism and a vivacious Rondo. The Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13 and the Rondo à la Krakowiak are similarly vehicles for Romantic reverie and bravura which pay tribute to the music of his homeland. Eldar Nebolsin’s recording of Liszt’s piano concertos (8570517) was ranked “among the finest” by Gramophone. “[Nebolsin] proves himself a scintillating and persuasive Chopinist, alive to every detail and, indeed, subtly highlighting a few that are generally ignored...[The Rondo is] the highlight of the disc, nonchalantly fleet-fingered, beautifully phrased and conveying a real joy of shared music-making.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 “...the assertiveness Nebolsin brings to the second subject of the Concerto's allegro immediately establishes an extrovert approach that persists through the disc. His virtuosity often creates a sense of high drama...In keeping with the scale of it all, conductor Antoni Wit favours big forces and grand-manner orchestral playing.” The Guardian, 12th August 2010 **** | | | (also available to download from $5.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Chopin: Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra Volume 1
Tatiana Shebanova (piano) The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Tadeusz Wojciechowsk Following the release of Tatiana Shebanova’s 10 CD box set of the critically acclaimed complete solo piano works of Chopin, DUX are proud to issue two volumes of the complete works for piano and orchestra. “Her touch always makes one aware of the music's bel canto aspect, her playing is rhythmically taut and crisp, and she commands a wide range of pianistic colour.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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The CD includes young Chopin’s three masterpieces, composed in Warsaw in the years 1827-29, as well as Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in the version for piano and orchestra. The music is performed by Nelson Goerner and the Orchestra of the 18th Century conducted by Frans Brüggen. There is a bonus - the Polish national anthem Mazurek Dabrowskiego for the first time played on period instruments. Fantasy on Polish Airs in A major, Op. 13 was recorded during a concert held on 30 August 2006 at the Grand Theatre – National Opera. Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22, Variations in B flat major on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Op. 2, Rondo à la Krakowiak, in F major, Op. 14 were recorded in Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio, Warsaw, 11 November 2007. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Chopin - Complete Works For Piano & Orchestra
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| |  | The Very Best of Chopin
Chopin: | Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Piotr Paleczny (piano) Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Kevin Kenner (piano) Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Zbigniew Raubo (piano) Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Tomasz Sikorski (piano) Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary' Jerzy Romaniuk (piano) Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp' Jerzy Romaniuk (piano) Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Kazimierz Gierzod (piano) Mazurka No. 44 in C major, Op. 67 No. 3 Kevin Kenner (piano) Mazurka No. 45 in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4 Kevin Kenner (piano) Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 Kazimierz Gierzod (piano) Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Teresa Kaban (piano) Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Zbigniew Raubo (piano) Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Zbigniew Raubo (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 19 in E flat major Edward Wolanin (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor Edward Wolanin (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 24 in D minor Edward Wolanin (piano) Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Jerzy Romaniuk (piano) Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Tatiana Szebanowa (piano) Zyczenie (The Maiden's Wish), Op. 74 No. 1 Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano) Gdzie lubi (What She Likes), Op. 74 No. 5 Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano) Piosnka litewska (Lithuanian Song), Op. 74 No. 16 Ewa Podles (contralto) Sliczny chlopiec (Handsome Lad), Op. 74 No. 8 Ewa Podles (contralto) Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Theme of Moore Waldemar Malicki, Tamara Granat (pianos) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11: Romance Piotr Paleczny Prima Vista Quartet Krakowiak - Concert Rondo in F, Op. 14 Piotr Paleczny Prima Vista Quartet Allegro de Concert in A major Op. 46 Edward Wolanin National Chamber Orchestra of Slupsk Sinfonia Baltica, Bohdan Jarmolowicz Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op. 22 Marek Drewnowski Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor (orchestral version) Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Wojciech Rajski |
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