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Chopin: Waltzes & Impromptus

Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

Chopin: Waltzes & Impromptus
this earlier version is wistful and whimsical, and impeccably tasteful.

BBC Music Magazine, March 20114 out of 5 stars

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Chopin: Waltzes & Impromptus

Arthur Rubinstein (piano)

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this earlier version is wistful and whimsical, and impeccably tasteful.

BBC Music Magazine, March 20114 out of 5 stars

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Reissue Producer and Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn

This volume continues the Naxos series of Rubinstein’s ‘middle period’ Chopin recordings, begun with the Piano Concertos (8111296) and followed by the Polonaises (8111346). Because the HMV/Victor catalogue already included Cortot’s complete traversal of the Waltzes (8111035), Rubinstein set down only two of them on shellac before making this complete recording in 1954. He had made previous recordings for RCA of two of the Impromptus (Opp. 51 and 66) before taping the four new versions heard on this disc.

Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 18
Work length5:25
Waltz No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 18, "Grande valse brillante"
Track length5:25
Excerpt,Chopin: Waltzes (3), Op. 34
Work length10:39
Waltz No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1, "Valse brillante"
Track length5:08
Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2, "Valse brillante"
Track length5:31
Chopin: Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 3
Work length2:18
Waltz No. 4 in F Major, Op. 34, No. 3, "Valse brillante" (Live)
Track length2:18
Chopin: Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, Op. 42
Work length3:55
Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42
Track length3:55
Chopin: Waltzes (3), Op. 64
Work length9:05
Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute"
Track length1:56
Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Track length3:46
Waltz No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
Track length3:23
Excerpt,Chopin: Waltzes (2), Op. 69
Work length4:28
Waltz No. 9 in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1, "L'adieu"
Track length4:28
Chopin: Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2
Work length4:20
Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2
Track length4:20
Chopin: Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70 No. 1
Work length1:55
Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1
Track length1:55
Excerpt,Chopin: Waltzes (3), Op. 70
Work length3:09
Waltz No. 12 in F Minor, Op. 70, No. 2
Track length3:09
Chopin: Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70 No. 3
Work length2:47
Chopin: Waltz No. 14 in E minor, Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56
Work length3:18
Chopin: Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
Work length4:06
Chopin: Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op. 36
Work length5:55
Chopin: Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51
Work length4:51
Chopin: Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Work length5:25

Awards and reviews

March 2011

this earlier version is wistful and whimsical, and impeccably tasteful.
4 out of 5 stars

July 2011

Try Waltzes Nos 3, 7 and 13...and you will realise that no other pianist has captured more subtly Chopin's unique blend of classical bias and romantic freedom. Here in particular you note an elegance and insiunation devoid of all sentimentality, neurosis or self-serving idiosyncrasy.
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