Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-21

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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 16th Sep 1996
Catalogue No: 4470962
Label: DG
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

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Chopin: Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1

Work length5:36

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2

Work length4:29

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3

Work length6:39

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1

Work length4:21

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2

Work length3:27

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3

Work length4:26

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1

Work length5:11

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2

Work length6:37

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1

Work length4:54

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1995-01-05
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2

Work length4:49

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1

Work length5:47

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2

Work length5:57

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1

Work length6:45

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2

Work length7:17

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1

Work length4:40

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-04-09
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2

Work length4:52

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-04-09
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1

Work length6:27

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-04-09
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2

Work length5:58

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-04-09
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1

Work length4:08

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-01-04
Recording Venue: Musikhochschule, Munich

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

Work length4:02

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-06-21
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Chopin: Nocturne No. 21 in C minor, BI 108

Work length2:48

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Maria João Pires (piano)
Recorded: 1996-06-21
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

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2010

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'. The con fuoco of Op 15 No 1 erupts in a fine fury and in the first Nocturne, Op 9 No 1, Pires's sharp observance of Chopin's appassionato marking comes like a prophecy of the coda's sudden blaze. Chopin, she informs us in no uncertain terms, was no sentimentalist. More intimately, in Op-15 No 3 (where the music's wavering sense of irresolution led to the sobriquet 'the Hamlet Nocturne') Pires makes you hang on to every note in the coda's curious, echoing chimes, and in the dolcissimo conclusion to No 8 (Op 27 No 2) there's an unforgettable sense of 'all passion spent', of gradually ebbing emotion. Pires with her burning clarity has reinforced our sense of Chopin's stature and created a new range of possibilities (showing us that there's life after Rubinstein). Naturally, Rubinstein's legendary cycles possess a graciousness, an ease and elegance reflecting, perhaps, a long-vanished belle époque. Yet moving ahead, one has no hesitation in declaring Maria João Pires among the most eloquent master- musicians of our time.

Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-21

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