Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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Anyone approaching such oft-recorded repertoire as this great pair of Chopin concertos really needs to bring some special credentials to the enterprise, and Charles Richard-Hamelin certainly... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: AN29146
Label: Analekta
Length: 80 minutes

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Work length34:16

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Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Richard-Hamelin

I. Maestoso

Track length15:11

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II. Larghetto

Track length10:13

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length8:52

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Work length41:58

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Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Richard-Hamelin

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length21:17

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II. Romance. Larghetto

Track length10:36

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III. Rondo. Vivace

Track length10:05

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.

Work length3:58

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Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Richard-Hamelin

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In their very first recording together, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal directed by Kent Nagano and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin give us amazing versions of Frédéric Chopin’s concertos for piano and orchestra, two vibrant and poetic works that the composer wrote while in his early 20s.

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman award at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, is impressive with his extremely refined playing and the OSM offers wonderfully fluid and emotional performances and the result rivals the best recordings that have been made of these great works.

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August 2019

Anyone approaching such oft-recorded repertoire as this great pair of Chopin concertos really needs to bring some special credentials to the enterprise, and Charles Richard-Hamelin certainly has them…The recording opens with the Concerto No. 2…and its subtle interpretative challenges seem well suited to Richard-Hamelin’s musical persona.

July 2019

Richard-Hamelin’s overriding concern is the life of the phrase, achieved by replicating Chopin’s expressive gestures through precise observance of every detail in the score. His playing never sounds routine or exhibitionistic. In his hands, Chopin’s bravura passagework is imbued with meaning, its purpose the preparation of embellishment of a lyrical moment…even if you have a dozen recordings of the Chopin concertos on your shelf, you won’t regret adding this one.

The Wholenote April 2019

An exhilarating encounter with these two items of standard repertoire. There is a freshness in this performance that owes everything to its collaborators...While historical criticism of these works has focused on Chopin’s weak orchestral writing, Hamelin and Nagano have delivered such a transcendent experience that the criticism seems somehow lost if not irrelevant in the overwhelming beauty of this performance.

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