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CHOPIN, F.: Piano Favourites, Vol. 2 |
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Composer: |
Fryderyk Chopin |
Artist: |
Idil Biret, Bernd Glemser, Vladimir Horowitz, Peter Nagy, Alexander Paley, Konstantin Scherbakov, Istvan Szekely, Balazs Szokolay, Alexandre Tharaud, Irina Zaritzkaya, Alfred Cortot, Arthur Rubinstein, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Staffan Scheja, Solomon, Josef Lhevinne, Ignaz Friedman, Mischa Levitzki, William Murdoch, Josef Hofmann, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Raoul Pugno, Gertrude Peppercorn, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Freddy Kempf, Roland Pontinen, Friedrich Gulda, Ivan Moravec, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Shura Cherkassky, Guiomar Novaes, Camille Saint-Saens, Ferruccio Busoni, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Chengzong Yin, Earl Wild, Stephane Blet, Robert Lortat, Vlado Perlemuter, Sviatoslav Richter, Raoul Koczalski, Dinu Lipatti, Vladimir de Pachmann, Yvonne Lefebure, Marie-Catherine Girod, Sebastian Knauer, Julius Katchen, Sheila Arnold, Alfonso Alberti, Alexis Weissenberg, Christian Ihle Hadland, Krzysztof Jablonski, Stanislav Bunin, Ivo Pogorelich, Andreas Pistorius, Elfrun Gabriel, Yuval Fichman, Cedric Tiberghien, Alain Planes, Anna Gourari, Helene Tysman, Amir Katz, Natalia Nikolai, Alejandro Pico-Leonis, Florence Delaage, Albert Tiu |
Label: |
Naxos |
Catalogue No.: |
8.555799 |
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CD |
Barcode: |
0747313579921 |
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One of the supremely gifted writers for piano, Chopin used the instrument to convey subtle tone-colours and a degree of emotional intensity hitherto unknown. Much of his later work was for solo piano, composed in forms that he adapted and developed, such as the Nocturne, the Waltz, the Polish Mazurka and the Polonaise. While beautifully expressive melodies are to be found in abundance on this second volume of Piano Favourites (Volume 1 is available on 8.553170), works such as the Grande Valse, Barcarolle, Scherzo No. 2 and the Fantasie in F minor demonstrate that Chopin also possessed a unique and often complex sense of form and colour.
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