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Chopin: | Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' Maurizio Pollini (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop' Martha Argerich (piano) Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz' Maria João Pires (piano) Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 Alice Sara Ott (piano) Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary' Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse' Nelson Freire (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor Rafal Blechacz (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major Rafal Blechacz (piano) Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Hélène Grimaud (piano) Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 'Military' Emil Gilels (piano) Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Maria João Pires (piano) Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Daniel Barenboim (piano) Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Maurizio Pollini (piano) Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 Zoltán Kocsis (piano) Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind' Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Lang Lang (piano) Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor Nelson Freire (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 3 in G major Martha Argerich (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 6 in B minor Martha Argerich (piano) Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 Ivo Pogorelich (piano) Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre': 3rd movement (Funeral March) Hélène Grimaud (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 11 in B major Friedrich Gulda (piano) Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor Friedrich Gulda (piano) 3 Écossaises, Op. 72 No. 3 Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly' Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2 Maria João Pires (piano) Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29 Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Maurizio Pollini (piano) Mazurka No. 19 in B minor, Op. 30 No. 2 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) |
The essential collection of favourite solo works for Chopin Year 2010! Over 140 minutes of pure listening pleasure 2CDs for the price of 1 Featuring Argerich, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Blechacz, Freire, Grimaud, Gulda, Horowitz, Lang Lang, Michelangeli, Ott, Pires, Pollini and many more “Chopin was the greatest of us all, for he discovered everything through the piano alone”. So wrote Debussy about the Polish master, the 200th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated in 2010. This collection – featuring the world’s greatest pianists – bears out this remark, ranging from the dreamy to the heroic, from the passionate to the playful, with all Chopin’s favourite titles included. | 
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| |  | Chopin chez Pleyel
Alain Planès (piano Pleyel 1837coll. Anthony Sidey) 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 **** |
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| |  | Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin
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| |  | Artur RubinsteinLive, Moscow, Great Hall Moscow Conservatory, 1st October, 1964
Chopin: | Polonaise No. 5 in F sharp minor, Op. 44 Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre' Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp' Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key' Waltz No. 3 in A minor 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 2 Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' | Debussy: | Préludes - Book 2: No. 8, Ondine | Schumann: | Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 No. 1 'Des Abends' | Villa-Lobos: | O Polichinelo (from Prole do Bebê, book 1) |
Artur Rubinstein's charismatic personality and unique ability to connect with an audience made each of his concert appearances an event. Surprisingly, the vast majority of his recorded output - whether on record or film - was made in the recording studio.This rare film, preserved in the vaults of the Russian State television archives for nearly 50 years, shows Rubinstein at his prime playing in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.This historic concert both testifies to Rubinstein's freer and risk-taking approach when in front of an audience and allows us to share the electric atmosphere of his live appearances. BONUS: 1928 footage accompanying a silent film “From the archives of Russian state television, this astonishing film captures the great Rubinstein holding his Moscow audience spellbound.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 ***** “Considering his celebrity, longevity and huge studio recording legacy, there is very little film of Rubinstein in concert. Indeed, this is the only full solo recital I can recall and as such is immensely valuable… fine as are most of his studio recordings, Rubinstein played with a greater freedom and daring when in front of an audience. The playing, of course, is heart-warming... Everything seems so inevitable and right, whether in the caressing phrases of the Barcarolle or the bravura of the A flat Polonaise, the inevitable trademark conclusion to any Rubinstein recital.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3
Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Recent discs from Marc-André Hamelin have concentrated on music which is obscure, under-recorded or virtually unplayable. However in this latest recording he turns his attention to two mainstays of the Romantic repertoire: Chopin’s Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. The results are simply staggering: playing of matchless brilliance and consummate artistry, stunningly recorded. As a recent critic of Hamelin’s live performance of the B minor sonata remarked, ‘Hamelin starts where most other pianists leave off … such was his control that frequently it seemed as though an extra dimension were being added, the music’s teeming internal life clarified by his ability to voice the inner parts’. The disc is completed by some of Chopin’s greatest single-movement works; the contrasting two Nocturnes of Op 27, the extraordinarily colouristic Berceuse Op 57 and the monumental Barcarolle in F sharp major. We think this is one of the most authoritative and important Chopin discs to have appeared in recent years—an unmissable release. “Hamelin builds the Second Sonata… unerringly, producing a poetic and passionate performance that is finally carried off on a spectral wind. Hamelin… opens with an exquisitely textured Berceuse. He finds all the richness of the Barcarollem and responds fully to Chopin's melodic impulse in the two Op. 27 Nocturnes. ...hugely satisfying Chopin recital.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 ***** “Hamelin's playing is refreshingly free from the "inverted comma" school of profundity, and he lets the music speak through him most eloquently. …though Hamelin has made many fabulous discs, particularly in reportoire of superhuman virtuosity, this is one of his very finest achievements to date.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin - The Complete Recordings(recorded 1947, 1948 & 1950)
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| |  | Chopin - Preludes & Nocturnes
Chopin: | 24 Preludes, Op. 28 Prelude Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25) Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3 Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3 Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2 Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2 Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2 Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1 Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. Nocturne No. 21 in C minor, BI 108 Prelude Op. posth. in A flat major (No. 26) |
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| |  | Maksim - The Piano PlayerWorld Premiere Performance including Works By Grieg, Handel, Liszt And Chopin
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Each waltz is treated with the same care that a piano sonata might deserve and the effect is magical: this is true poetry - James Jolly, Gramophone 1000th issue | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3 Polonaise No. 5 in F sharp minor, Op. 44 Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Mazurka No. 40 in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42 Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70 No. 1 Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18 | Piazzólla: | Adiós Nonino Encore |
Recorded live at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on December 1, 2003 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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