Chopin: Nocturnes and Ballades
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes and Ballades
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
[ Double Decca / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 15 May 2004
"In his sense of wonder Ashkenazy never disappoints. The magic and mystery of this music emerge in a way I can only describe as hypnotic."
(Gramophone)
"The sound-world, as always with this artist, is wholly Chopinesque in its gleaming translucency. Only very occasionally at moments of emphasis in the treble did I detect just a passing steely glint. Tempo is invariably judicious. Certainly the slightly more flowing speed chosen for the lento of No. 6 in G minor allows No. 11 in the same key to sound more laden in contrast. In comparison with the older Rubinstein (RCA), Ashkenazy's rubato perhaps draws just a little more attention to itself (as in the first few notes of the opening B flat minor Nocturne)-though never quite so much as from Arrau (Philips). In his sense of wonder Ashkenazy never disappoints. The magic and mystery of this music emerge in a way I can only describe as hypnotic."
(Gramophone)
Tracks:
Disc: 1
1. 3. Nocturnes, Op.9: I. B Flat Minor
2. 3. Nocturnes, Op.9: II. E Flat Major
3. 3. Nocturnes, Op.9: III. B Major
4. 3. Nocturnes, Op. 15: I. F Major
5. 3. Nocturnes, Op. 15: II. F Sharp Major
6. 3. Nocturnes, Op. 15: III. G Minor
7. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 27: I. C Sharp Minor
8. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 27: II. D Flat Major
9. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 32: I. B major
10. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 32: II. A Flat Major
11. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 37: I. G Minor
12. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 37: II. G Major
13. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 48: I. C Minor
14. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 48: II. F Sharp Minor
Disc: 2
1. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 55: I. F Minor
2. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 55: II. E-flat major
3. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 62: I. B major
4. 2. Nocturnes, Op. 62: II. E major
5. Nocturne In E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1
6. Nocturne In C Sharp Minor
7. Nocturne In C Minor
8. Ballade No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 23
9. Ballade No. 2 In F Major, Op. 38
10. Ballade No. 3 In A-Flat Major, Op. 47
11. Ballade No. 4 In F Minor, Op. 52
