Chopin: The Nocturnes - Maria João Pires
Deutsche Grammophon | 16 Sep 1996 | Classical | APE+CUE | 3% Recovery | 2 CDS | 141+165 MB | 50: 29 + 58: 42
Can 21 Nocturnes be a bit too much of a good thing in one go? Not if the composer is Chopin, undisputed king of the genre, and the pianist is Maria Joâo Pires. She's not exactly a prolific recording artist, but the results are invariably special. Not for her the namby-pamby, soft-focus approach that these pieces sometimes provoke. Chopin's approach to the form is by no means straightforwardly lyrical – take No. 4: it starts innocently enough, but in its middle section that mood is abruptly flung aside by a considerably more passionate section. To Pires, each is a song, a narrative urgently to be expounded (just try the famous No. 12 – an entirely new experience in her hands, or the way she becomes the most expressive of sopranos in No. 20). Night casts strange shadows, shedding a different perspective on what seems so familiar by day. No one is more aware of that than Chopin. And no protagonist relishes the very innovative aspect of these pieces better than Pires. – Harriet Smith, Amazon.co.uk Review
CD1:
01. N 1 In B Flat Minor, Op 9 N 1 : Larghetto
02. N 2 In E Flat Major, Op 9 N 2 : Andante
03. N 3 In B Flat Major, Op 9 N 3 : Allegretto
04. N 4 In F Major, Op 15 N 1 : Andante Cantabile
05. N 5 In F Sharp Major, Op 15 N 2 : Larghetto
06. N 6 In G Minor, Op 15 N 3 : Lento
07. N 7 In C Sharp Minor, Op 27 N 1 : Larghetto
08. N 8 In D Flat Major, Op 27 N 2 : Lento Sostenuto
09. N 9 In B Major, Op 32 N 1 : Andante Sostenuto
10. N 10 In A Flat Major, Op 32 N 2 : Lento
CD2
01. N 11 In G Minor, Op 37 N 1 : Andante Sostenuto
02. N 12 In G Major, Op 37 N 2 : Andantino
03. N 13 In C Minor, Op 48 N 1 : Lento
04. N 14 In F Sharp Minor, Op 48 N 2 : Andantino
05. N 15 In F Minor, Op 55 N 1 : Andante
06. N 16 In E Flat Major, Op 55 N 2 : Lento Sostenuto
07. N 17 In B Major, Op 62 N 1 : Andante
08. N 18 In E Major, Op 62 N 2 : Lento
09. N 19 In E Minor, Op Post. 72 N 1 : Andante
10. N 20 In C Sharp Minor, Op Posthume : Lento Con Gran Espressione
11. N 21 In C Minor, Op Posthume
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