Lara Melda Plays Chopin

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There is much to admire here: total technical control, sensitivity to linear balance, a wide range of dynamics and warm tone. If the Nocturnes seem to be more Lara Melda’s natural territory,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: CHRCD153
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 76 minutes

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

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

Work length3:57

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

Work length6:10

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Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23

Work length9:38

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

Work length5:36

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Chopin: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2

Work length5:21

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

Work length7:16

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

Work length7:55

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

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

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Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

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For her debut recording, BBC Young Musician winner Lara Melda fulfils a long held ambition to set down the musical ideas of Frédéric Chopin, a composer for whom she has had a special affinity since childhood.

Lara writes: “One day I yearn to fulfil a fantasy of playing all 169 works that Chopin wrote for the piano from his short life’s output ... for this album I selected Nocturnes and Ballades, starting with the Op.9 Nocturnes, which he began composing at the age of 20, and ending with the fourth Ballade, written twelve years later when he was 32. It has long been my dream to set down these works in a recording.”

Lara Melda won the BBC Young Musician 2010 competition, performing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 with Vasily Petrenko and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2018 with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay, and has since given numerous recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Les Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad, and the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Festival.

Other concerto performances include Britten’s Young Apollo with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Paul Daniel (Barbican), Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Kirill Karabits (The Sage), Mozart K466 and K242 with the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon (Kings Place), the Grieg Concerto with English Sinfonia (St John’s Smith Square) and Beethoven 3 in a tour of New Zealand with the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand.

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February 2021

There is much to admire here: total technical control, sensitivity to linear balance, a wide range of dynamics and warm tone. If the Nocturnes seem to be more Lara Melda’s natural territory, that’s mainly because the Ballades throw up more searching questions of structure.

January/February 2021

a pianist of a maturity well beyond her years... Melda is a major talent.

Lara Melda Plays Chopin

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