Chopin The Nocturnes
Freire Nelson
Chopin The Nocturnes
Freire Nelson
ABC Classic FM, CD of the Week, 26th April\n2010
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Universal Classical Album of the Month, March\n2010
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TRACK LISTING
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CHOPIN CD 1 1. Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1 2.\nNocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 3. Nocturne No. 3 in B\nmajor, Op. 9 No. 3 4. Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1 5.\nNocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 6. Nocturne No. 6 in\nG minor, Op. 15 No. 3 7. Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27\nNo. 1 8. Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 9. Nocturne\nNo. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1 10. Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major,\nOp. 32 No. 2 11. Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1
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CD 2 1. Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2 2. Nocturne No.\n13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 3. Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor,\nOp. 48 No. 2 4. Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 5.\nNocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2 6. Nocturne No. 17 in\nB major, Op. 62 No. 1 7. Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2\n8. Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. posth. 72 No. 1 9. Nocturne No.\n20 in C sharp minor, KK IVa/16
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In celebration of Chopin Year – 2010 being the 200th birthday of\nthe sui generis Polish genius – Nelson Freire, a Chopin interpreter\nof unique discernment, records the beloved Nocturnes.
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Nelson Freire is an acknowledged master of the keyboard. His\nrecordings for Decca have won numerous awards, including a\nGramophone Award, Diapason d’or, Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles\nCros, and Choc du Monde de la musique. Freire is a past winner of\nthe Dinu Lipatti Medal, first prize winner of the International\nVianna da Motta Competition and was France’s Victoires de la\nMusique’s “Soloist of the Year” in 2002.
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A pianist’s pianist whose playing “sings” with every refinement\nof the school of bel canto, Nelson Freire is an artist whose\nprofile deserves the attention of a wider classical market. In the\nopinion of The Dallas Morning News, “Any new Freire recording is\nvirtually self-recommending\“.
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Review
Maurice Smith, guest reviewer
Here is some truly inspirational playing. Nelson Freire seems to have cut to the core of Chopin’s Nocturnes; they are, from his point of view, reflective and introspective but devoid of the sentimentality that is sometimes evident in other interpretations.
Freire is of course no stranger to Chopin and here lies his great facility – his experience and understanding of the texture, the colour and the bel canto-like melody line of Chopin’s Nocturnes. In Freire’s hands, the very first Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1, flows seamlessly. Not even the marked difference of the central section seems to interrupt Freire’s control over the nocturne as a whole. This set of nocturnes stand up there with the best – a must-have for any Chopin devotee.
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