Maria Joao Pires - Frederic Chopin: The Nocturnes, Complete Recording (1996) 2CDs

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Maria João Pires - Frédéric Chopin: The Nocturnes, Complete Recording (1996) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 344 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:49:11
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 096-2

Those of us fortunate enough to have attended Maria João Pires’s Wigmore Hall recital earlier this year (1996) were given a hint of the recorded greatness to come when she ended her programme with a memorable selection of Chopin Nocturnes. And now, listening to the complete set, in bold recordings of demonstration quality, one is made doubly aware of the most concentrated eloquence and pianistic mastery. Passion rather than insouciance is Pires’s keynote. Here is no soft, moonlit option but an intensity and drama that scorn all complacent salon or drawing-room expectations. How she relishes Chopin’s central storms, creating a vivid and spectacular yet unhistrionic contrast with all surrounding serenity or ‘embalmed darkness’. The con fuoco of Op. 15 No. 1 erupts in a fine fury and in the first Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1, Pires’s sharp observance of Chopin’s appassionato marking comes like a prophecy of the coda’s sudden blaze. Such resolution and psychological awareness make you realize that Chopin, like D. H. Lawrence, may well have thought that “there must be a bit of fear, and a bit of horror in your life”. Chopin, Pires informs us in no uncertain terms, was no sentimentalist.

More intimately, in Op. 15 No. 3 (where the music’s wavering sense of irresolution led to the sobriquet ‘the Hamlet Nocturne’) Pires makes you hang on to every note in the coda’s curious, echoing chimes, and in the dolcissimo conclusion to No. 8 (Op. 27 No. 2) there is an unforgettable sense of ‘all passion spent’, of gradually ebbing emotion. Not surprisingly, given her general approach, Pires is drawn to No. 9 (Op. 32 No. 1), where an outwardly meek and Field-like demeanour is constantly menaced and thwarted, while in No. 13 in C minor, one of Chopin’s most sombre masterpieces, her sense of strength in adversity is overwhelming. Her emotional force in the concluding doppio movimento will surely bring tears to the eyes of even the hardiest, most seasoned listener. And since she is no less successful in the following, wistful F sharp minor Nocturne (always among Chopin’s favourites) and in the rich and fragrant pastures of Op. 62 Nos. 1 and 2, I can safely say that you will look far and wide for performances of greater poetic command and authority.

Just as Krystian Zimerman so startlingly re-evaluated the Debussy Préludes (DG, 3/94), more than proving that there is life after Gieseking, so Pires with her burning clarity has reinforced our sense of Chopin’s stature, created a new range of possibilities (showing us that there is life after Rubinstein). Naturally, Rubinstein’s legendary cycles possess a graciousness, an ease and elegance reflecting, perhaps, a long-vanished belle epoque. Yet moving ahead, as we all must, I have no hesitation in declaring Maria João Pires – a pianist without a trace of narcissism – among the most eloquent master-musicians of our time.

Review by Gramophone Magazine







Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Nocturne No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.9 No.1 - Larghetto (5:36)
02. Nocturne No.2 in E-flat major, Op.9 No.2 - Andante (4:29)
03. Nocturne No.3 in B major, Op.9 No.3 - Allegretto (6:39)
04. Nocturne No.4 in F major, Op.15 No.1 - Andante cantabile (4:21)
05. Nocturne No.5 in F-sharp major, Op.15 No.2 - Larghetto (3:27)
06. Nocturne No.6 in G minor, Op.15 No.3 - Lento (4:26)
07. Nocturne No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.27 No.1 - Larghetto (5:11)
08. Nocturne No.8 in D-flat major, Op.27 No.2 - Lento sostenuto (6:37)
09. Nocturne No.9 in B major, Op.32 No.1 - Andante sostenuto (4:54)
10. Nocturne No.10 in A-flat major, Op.32 No.2 - Lento (4:49)

CD2:

01. Nocturne No.11 in G minor, Op.37 No.1 - Andante sostenuto (5:47)
02. Nocturne No.12 in G major, Op.37 No.2 - Andantino (5:57)
03. Nocturne No.13 in C minor, Op.48 No.1 - Lento (6:45)
04. Nocturne No.14 in F-sharp minor, Op.48 No.2 - Andantino (7:18)
05. Nocturne No.15 in G minor, Op.55 No.1 - Andante (4:40)
06. Nocturne No.16 in E-flat major, Op.55 No.2 - Lento sostenuto (4:52)
07. Nocturne No.17 in B major, Op.62 No.1 - Andante (6:27)
08. Nocturne No.18 in E major, Op.62 no.2 - Lento (5:58)
09. Nocturne No.19 in E minor, Op.post.72 No.1 - Andante (4:08)
10. Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor, Op.post - Lento con gran espressione (4:02)
11. Nocturne No.21 in C minor, Op.post. (2:48)


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Frederic Chopin / The Nocturnes (CD1)

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DR12 -5.41 dB -23.32 dB 4:08 09-Nocturne No.19 in E minor, Op.post.72 No.1 - Andante
DR13 -4.84 dB -24.04 dB 4:02 10-Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor, Op.post - Lento con gran espressione
DR13 -3.89 dB -22.25 dB 2:48 11-Nocturne No.21 in C minor, Op.post.
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 417 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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