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Chopin - Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2
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the great interpreters of this music never confuse the melancholic with the sentimental. Stephen Hough is even more ‘objective’ than most while bringing pianistic poise to everything and breathing... —
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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The first prerequisite of great Chopin playing is arguably beauty of tone, as well as refinement and variety...Lortie is a model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without ever... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Instrumental Choice
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The Complete Chopin Edition
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano), Claudio Arrau (piano), Anatol Ugorski (piano), Maurizio Pollini (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Maria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Rafal Blechacz (piano), Yundi Li (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Kurt Bauer, Heidi Bung (pianos),...
The quality, both of DG's chosen recordings and the set's general presentation, is just about as good as it gets. To have in one box such wonders as Zimmerman's Ballades, Pollini's Etudes,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, First Choice
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For Freire the Nocturnes are tirelessly experimental, an opalescent world of shifting moods and colours...True, there are moments when a once legendary and impeccable technique stiffens [...],... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Piano
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Special offer. Arthur de Greef: Solo and Concerto Studio Recordings
Arthur de Greef (piano)
New Symphony Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Landon Ronald
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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…Planès himself works poetic magic, with wonderfully paced phrasing and a style of rubato replete with beautifully judged elasticity and grace; and he has explored Chopin's approach to improvised... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Finalist
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Special offer. Nocturnes For Piano
Tyler Hay, Vincenzo Maltempo, François Dumont, Bart van Oort, Cristina Ariagno, Chiara Cipelli, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Marco Rapetti, Costantino Mastroprimiano (piano)
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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... —Purchase product
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Chopin: Piano Concerto & Nocturnes
Maria João Pires (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Christopher Warren-Green
