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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Nocturnes
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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... —
Awards:
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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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 [...],... —
Awards:
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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. Chopin: Sonatas 2 & 3 /Ballade No. 1 / Berceuse / Nocturnes
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Perhaps not the most multi-faceted Chopin playing , with too much emphasis on approaching the composer back through a Romantic lens rather than forward through a Classical one, but a characteristically... —
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Feltsman's seriousness and poetic commitment are never in doubt...he is deeply sensitive to the Nocturnes' fluctuations, their quiet despair and sudden violence...this is Chopin with an edge...we... —
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an understated view of the composer, yet one that is fully cultivated and always convincing...not that Lortie is afraid of big expression, or lacking in virtuosity: his elegant playing always... —
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Awards:
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Building a Library, March 2010, First Choice (Scherzo 4)
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Full-blooded playing from Leonskaja, with a suitably wide expressive range. Though there are moments of over-aggression, those are compensated for by her beautiful shaping of filigree arabesques... —
