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Chopin - Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
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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... —
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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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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Building a Library, March 2010, First Choice (Scherzo 4)
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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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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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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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Grammy Awards, 49th Awards (2006), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Mlynarski's Concerto is a real find. Nigel Kennedy shows passionate involvement with this unfamiliar music throughout… Jacek Kaspszyk and the Polish Chamber Orchestra accompany energetically... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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