This page lists all recordings of 12 Études, Op. 25, by Frédéric François Chopin (1810-49) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) “Ashkenazy's 1971-2 recording of the Etudes is among the finest Chopin he recorded for Decca. Seasoned listeners might still prefer his more youthful Melodiya set, but the Decca version is consistently rewarding.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Arrau's technique is dazzling, especially for clarity - he uses little pedal - but here it’s difficult to forget that the etudes are etudes. Equally dry, ageing sound quality doesn't help.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007 *** “Arrau makes each piece wholly and uniquely his own.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“I expected good things from Maurizio Pollini, but his recording on Deutsche Grammophon provided more passion, more colour, more drama, than my wildest dreams.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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'a musician's Chopin and for the serious music lover rather than the piano fancier' Penguin Guide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Chopin raised the pedagogic 'study' (etude) to entirely new levels with his Opp. 10 and 25. Virtuoso studies testing the technique of any pianist, there are also incredibly poetic works. Here they are unforgettably played by Nikita Magaloff and the Trois Nouvelles Etudes, three tiny gems that were posthumously published, complete this oeuvre. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - The Complete Études
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth we are reissuing on Helios some of the finest performances from Garrick Ohlsson’s complete Chopin project, originally recorded for the American label Arabesque and reissued on Hyperion as a 16 CD boxed set CDS44351/66) in 2008. Sadly unacknowledged at the time of their original issue (very few of the original discs received much review coverage), these CDs include some of the greatest contemporary Chopin playing and include definitive performances of the complete etudes and mazurkas. It’s worth remembering the not only did Garrick win the 1970 Chopin competition (the only American to do so), but he also won the special prize for Mazurka playing, that most idiomatically Polish genre of Chopin’s output. “In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25, controlled and disciplined, never indulging in the sort of rhythmic licence that disguises technical shortcomings.
He has a dark side, too, revealed in Op. 10/6 and Op. 25/7” BBC Music Magazine | 
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| |  | Chopin - Preludes, Sonata No. 2 & EtudesCD2+BOOK
Legendary Russian pianist, Grigory Sokolov, considered one of the greatest pianists alive today, performs a recital of music by Frédéric Chopin. 2010 is the year of Chopin, celebrating the bicentennial of the composer’s birth. At the age of sixteen, Grigory Sokolov was awarded first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1966 and has since gained an almost mythical status throughout the world. |
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