Chopin Nocturnes

Hewitt Angela

Chopin Nocturnes
Format
Audio
Published
11 January 2005
ISBN
0034571173719

Chopin Nocturnes

Hewitt Angela

Catalogue # CDA673712

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Chopin:
\nNocturnes Nos. 1-21 (complete)
\nImpromptus Nos. 1-4

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Angela Hewitt (piano)

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CD - 2 discs

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Angela Hewitt takes a well-deserved break from her mammoth Bach\nand Couperin surveys to present us with this enthralling set of\nChopin’s most distinguished piano pieces—the complete Nocturnes and\nImpromptus.

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Between 1830 and 1846 Chopin wrote eighteen Nocturnes that were\npublished more or less in the order in which they were written. By\nspanning almost his entire creative life, they give us a marvellous\nopportunity to see not only how his early works were already\ntotally inspired and original, but also how his style and emotional\nmaturity developed through the years.

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The four Impromptus date from 1835 to 1842. The title suggests\nimprovisation; they might very well have been conceived as such\ninitially, but we know that Chopin went through agonies when it\ncame to writing a musical idea down. He would often spend six weeks\non a page, only to return to what he had written in the first\nplace. You wouldn’t know it listening to these pieces. They are\nfull of vitality and freshness, and carry us along with great\nfluidity.

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