Edna Stern plays Chopin

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The tone is soft and sweetly tactile in the medium register, becoming harder and brighter in the treble, while the single-escapement action makes it harder to play fast repeated notes than on... — The Independent, 23rd April 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: AM197
Label: Ambroisie
Length: 64 minutes

Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études

Work length7:00

$3.00

$3.90

Edna Stern (piano)

Etude No. 1 in F minor: Andantino

Track length1:53

$1.00

$1.30

Etude No. 2 in A flat major: Allegretto

Track length2:32

$1.00

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Etude No. 3 in D flat major: Allegretto

Track length2:35

$1.00

$1.30

Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38

Work length7:17

$2.00

$2.60

Edna Stern (piano)

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'

Work length24:53

$6.00

$7.80

Edna Stern (piano)

I. Grave - Doppio movimento

Track length7:50

$2.00

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II. Scherzo

Track length6:48

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III. Marche funebre: Lento

Track length8:25

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IV. Finale: Presto

Track length1:50

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$1.30

Chopin: Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42

Work length5:00

$1.00

$1.30

Edna Stern (piano)

Chopin: Prelude Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25)

Work length5:09

$1.00

$1.30

Edna Stern (piano)

Chopin: Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70 No. 2

Work length2:00

$1.00

$1.30

Edna Stern (piano)

Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47

Work length7:24

$2.00

$2.60

Edna Stern (piano)

Chopin: Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2

Work length3:46

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Edna Stern (piano)

Excerpt, Chopin: Preludes (24), Op. 28

Work length1:41

$1.00

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Edna Stern (piano)

Prelude No. 20 in C minor, Op. 28, No. 20

Track length1:41

$1.00

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Naïve celebrates the bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin’s birth with the debut release from Israeli pianist Edna Stern - a programme devoted to the Polish composer’s Sonata No 2 and various short pieces, performed on the famous 1842 Pleyel piano at Paris’s Musée de la Musique.

The award winning Belgian-born Israeli pianist, Edna Stern, presents an all Chopin programme featuring a selection his Études, Waltzes, Préludes and Ballades, together with the well-known Sonata No 2. Chopin admired above all others the pianos of the firm of Pleyel. For this recording, Edna Stern plays the famous Pleyel piano (1842) held at the Musée de la Musique in Paris. The grand Pleyel piano is characteristic of the instruments Chopin had at his disposal during the last ten years of his life, it is very similar to the grand piano of 1839 which belonged to the composer from 1839 to 1841.

This release is part of the Cité de la Musique series on Naïve – offering internationally renowned musicians the opportunity to record on the legendary instruments on display within the museum of early instruments at the Cité de la Musique. Edna Stern is a multi-award winning recording artist. Her first recording, ‘Chaconne’, won the Diapason Découverte and Arte ‘Best CD 2005’ awards. She has been described as having “the panache of Martha Argerich, the musicality of Leon Fleisher and the impeccable finish of Krystian Zimerman.” (Diapason, August 2005).

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23rd April 2010

The tone is soft and sweetly tactile in the medium register, becoming harder and brighter in the treble, while the single-escapement action makes it harder to play fast repeated notes than on modern instruments, though this matters less when the material is played as deliberately slowly as in Stern's interpretations.

8th May 2010

Mercurial and meditative, Stern’s interpretations are distinctive enough. But it’s her piano that makes the big difference: an 1842 Pleyel, which clouds most of the notes in a velvety darkness, transforming textures and cutting out scintillating display. Odd? Perhaps. Yet this muffled sonority was what Chopin favoured.

Edna Stern plays Chopin

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