Chopin - Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57
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Instrumental » Piano Solos
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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... — More…
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Hamelin builds the Second Sonata… unerringly, producing a poetic and passionate performance that is finally carried off on a spectral wind. Hamelin… opens with an exquisitely textured Berceuse.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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A charm of lullabies, or an excess? If anyone could convince you that mostly slow and soft can work as an album sequence, it would be sonic magician Bertrand Chamayou...Within the narrow compass... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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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,... — More…
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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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Hough stresses the Classical outlook of Chopin's Romanticism, even in a programme encompassing some of his most harmonically advanced music. The opening Barcarolle has rare clarity, and the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th April 2010
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Murray Perahia plays Chopin
RecommendedMurray Perahia (piano)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
A self-recommending six-disc set...which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As Bryce Morrison said of that disc: 'From Perahia there is order and lucidity at the heart... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Instrumental
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Freire's sheer love of music, and of this music, is positively incandescent...This is playing of exceptional virility, entirely untainted by machismo posturing or narcissistic display. Chopin... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, Instrumental Choice
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Peaceful Piano Moods
Ola Gjeilo (piano), Van-Anh Nguyen (piano), Music Lab Collective (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Lilya Zilberstein (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Lambert, Stephan Moccio (piano), Joep Beving (piano), Alice Sara Ott (piano), Christian Badzura (synthesizer programming),...
