Advantages: A discovery unforgettable Disadvantages: Nothing
...difficult in the same time.
I try to do it:
1) He make a full immersion in historycal background of Chopin;
2) He loved to study hand-written Chopin's music;
3) Like he said, he stopped to learn a work when "sounds flow in my blood".
4) An intelligent control by means of mind and heart.
He playsChopin's Nocturnes suspended in "time": night is not only darkness, mystery or passions; night in Chopin is without time also...
This Arturo understood and now we can hear a strange dimension of time.
Of course, there are passions, loves, cryes but these are nothing...in front of a world without time.
Often Nocturnes seem lullabyes: it is true!
But they send to sleep the death not the listeners!
Then, these musics are a victory on the death!
Other pianists have played these Chopin's works: Horowitz, Schnabel, Pollini, Richter...
Some years...
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Advantages: beautiful piano pieces. Disadvantages: are you kidding...none!
...I play the piano freqeuntly. As a result i come across many composers. Of them all, chopin is my favourite. With his singing melodie, and wonderous chromatic passages he is easily the greatest composer, poetically.
Chopin's nocturnes are among the most popular of his works, and this style is most famous for Chopin, even thought it was originally created by an Irish compose named John Field.
The 3 nocturnes that make up Op.9 were written in 1830-1831 and were published in 1832, the year Chopin became succesful. These 3 pieces were dedicated to Camile Moke Pleyel, a very tallented pianist and wife of one of France's most famous piano manufactures. Op.9 No.1 is currently the most performed of all his nocturnes.
Op.15 was written at about the same time as Op.9 except for Op.15 No.3. This was written in 1833. This Opus was dedicated...
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Advantages: The most beautiful performance of a superb collection Disadvantages: The CD has an end!
...From the second that the left hand begins the oscillating theme in the first track of Fantaisie Impromptu it is clear that Naxos have made a fantastic decision in the use of Idil Biret as the pianist for this collection.
The pianist plays with more human regard for the pieces than I have ever heard from another- she is never rushed, even through the mad vivace tempo marking the Minute Waltz- even in that she plays with a beauty and subtle tone that leaves the listener glad to have partaken in the experience.
The collection is superbly recorded and sourced- there is a wide variation of the Chopin favourites here, and they can all be excused their vast notereity solely as Biret's interpretations are so secure and novel.
For any Chopin fan this CD takes you through all forms of his works- from the surprising anger of the Revolutionary...
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