[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 2 February 1996
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Passion rather than insouciance is Pires's keynote.
Here is an intensity and drama that scorn all complacent salon or drawing-room expectations.
How she relishes Chopin's central storms, creating a vivid and spectacular yet unhistrionic contrast with all surrounding serenity or 'embalmed darkness'....one has no hesitation in declaring Maria João Pires among the most eloquent master- musicians of our time." Gramophone
Original 1995 recording in original packaging
Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat, 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