Field: Nocturnes Nos. 1-18

Elizabeth Joy Roe

Field: Nocturnes Nos. 1-18
Format
Audio
Publisher
Classics
Published
6 May 2016
ISBN
0028947896722

Field: Nocturnes Nos. 1-18

Elizabeth Joy Roe

Following her critically acclaimed coupling of the Britten & Barber Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Joy Roe enlightens the extraordinary world of John Field.

John Field has been called the ‘Father of the Nocturne’, creating the form which Chopin perfected, but thus relegated to a footnote in musical history. In fact he was held in high regard by his contemporaries: a student of Clementi, he knew Haydn, Hummel, Czerny and Mendelssohn, was championed by Liszt and an acknowledged influence on Chopin, Brahms and Schumann.

This is the first recording of all 18 of John Field’s Nocturnes on a single CD

Field led an extraordinary life: Dublin-born he travelled throughout Europe in the early 19th century, lived in St Petersburg and Moscow, fathered an illegitimate child and led an extravagant lifestyle, more or less drinking himself to early death in Moscow in 1837.

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