Chopin - Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Nocturnes
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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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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... — More…
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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As a former pupil of Cortot, it wasn't perhaps surprising that Lipatti always kept a special place in his heart for Chopin. And thanks primarily to the 14 Waltzes, played in a non-chronological... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's 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,... — 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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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 [...],... — More…
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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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A sense of delight permeates his performance of the Ravel waltzes; he digs into the scrunchy textures and lets the composer's lime-and-soda harmonies fizz and gleam...Shame about the sound quality,... — More…
