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Chopin: Etudes

Sonya Bach (piano)

Chopin: Etudes
Sonya Bach can certainly manage the lot, often gamely and at impressive tempos, but hers are generally somewhat prosaic rather than poetic accounts.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20202 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Chopin: Etudes

Sonya Bach (piano)

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Sonya Bach can certainly manage the lot, often gamely and at impressive tempos, but hers are generally somewhat prosaic rather than poetic accounts.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20202 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Sonya Bach’s debut album for Rubicon was a well-received 2CD set of J.S Bach’s Keyboard Concerti

with the English Chamber Orchestra. For this, her second album, she turns to Chopin and his Etudes. These works so stunned the critics and public when they appeared that Theodor Kullak wrote some 50 years after their publication, “Hence when we speak of the ideal of an Etude, the name of Chopin almost involuntarily falls from our lips.” That was in the 1880s and it remains true to this day.

The two sets op.10 and op25 occupy a unique position in piano literature, sweeping aside previously popular Etudes by J.B Cramer, Hummel, Kalkbrenner and Moscheles - all great pianist composers. Chopin learned from these composers and succeeded in elevating the Etude from the practice room to the concert hall where they remain to this day.

  • Release date: 20th Mar 2020
  • Label: Rubicon
  • Catalogue number: RCD1042
  • Length: 63 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
Work length27:44
No. 1 in C Major
Track length1:57
No. 2 in A Minor
Track length1:19
No. 3 in E Major 'Tristesse'
Track length4:28
No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor
Track length2:01
No. 5 in G- Flat Major "Black Keys"
Track length1:36
No. 6 in E- Flat Minor
Track length3:05
No. 7 in C Major
Track length1:28
No. 8 in F Major
Track length2:26
No. 9 in F Minor
Track length1:59
No. 10 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:02
No. 11 in E-Flat Major
Track length2:52
No. 12 in C Minor "Revolutionary"
Track length2:31
Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
Work length30:26
No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp"
Track length2:43
No. 2 in F Minor
Track length1:32
No. 3 in F Major
Track length1:47
No. 4 in A Minor
Track length1:43
No. 5 in E Minor
Track length3:09
No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor
Track length2:00
No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor
Track length5:16
No. 8 in D-Flat Major
Track length1:06
No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly"
Track length0:58
No. 10 in B Minor
Track length4:09
No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"
Track length3:28
No. 12 in C Minor
Track length2:35
Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
Work length5:49
No. 1 in F Minor
Track length2:15
No. 2 in D-Flat Major
Track length1:52
No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Track length1:42

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July 2020

Sonya Bach can certainly manage the lot, often gamely and at impressive tempos, but hers are generally somewhat prosaic rather than poetic accounts.
2 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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