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Murray Perahia - Chopin: 4 Ballades, Valses, Nocturne, Mazurkas, Etudes (1994)

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Murray Perahia - Chopin: 4 Ballades, Valses, Nocturne, Mazurkas, Etudes (1994)

Murray Perahia - Chopin: 4 Ballades, Valses, Nocturne, Mazurkas, Etudes (1994)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:00:40 | 191 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 64399

This Chopin recital represents Murray Perahia's return to the Sony studios after a two-year absence due to serious injury. So may I start by saying that this is surely the greatest, certainly the richest, of all his many and exemplary recordings. Once again his performances are graced with rare and classic attributes and now, to supreme clarity, tonal elegance and musical perspective, he adds an even stronger poetic profile, a surer sense of the inflammatory rhetoric underpinning Chopin's surface equilibrium. In other words the vividness and immediacy are as remarkable as the finesse. And here, arguably, is the oblique but telling influence of Horowitz who Perahia befriended during the last months of the old wizard's life.

Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

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Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 68:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902702 | Recorded: 2022

A lover of historical keyboard instruments, Alexander Melnikov has already successfully met the challenge of exploring ‘Four Pieces, Four Pianos’ on disc and in concert back in 2018. Today, he has chosen to perform seven emblematic works of the fantasia genre on harpsichord, fortepiano, tangent piano, early grands, and so on. In this journey through the keyboards of time, we can discover these pieces as they sounded at the time of their creation, but also grasp the invisible thread that links them to each other.

Maria João Pires - Maria João Pires Plays Chopin: Waltzes, Preludes & Piano Concertos (2024)

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Maria João Pires - Maria João Pires Plays Chopin: Waltzes, Preludes & Piano Concertos (2024)

Maria João Pires - Maria João Pires Plays Chopin: Waltzes, Preludes & Piano Concertos (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 722 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 478 MB
2:49:27 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Acclaimed as one of the greatest interpreters of Mozart, Portuguese pianist Maria-João Pires is an artist who combines exquisite stylistic refinement with a serious effort to plumb the intellectual complexities and spiritual depths of music. Refusing to conform to the traditional image of a concert virtuoso, Pires emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of music, always searching for hidden meanings which may elude the analytical performer. This remarkable reverence toward works of music, clearly manifested in her performances of Mozart, was made explicit by her remark that, as a performer, she acts as a channel for the composer's ideas.

Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)

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Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)

Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 62:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 9029555215 | Recorded: 2018

Warner Classics and Askonas Holt are proud to announce the signing of 20-year old American pianist, Eric Lu, winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018. As part of this year’s coveted prize the winner receives worldwide management with Askonas Holt – one of the world's leading arts management agencies, and an international album release on Warner Classics – one of the foremost global classical music recording companies.

Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)

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Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)

Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 01:51:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68351/2 | Recorded: 2020

Just about everything about Stephen Hough’s Chopin Nocturne cycle seems ideal. His gorgeous and well-recorded sonority seduces in intimate moments, rising to the music’s dramatic climaxes with emotional force yet never losing clarity or luminosity. He applies rubato with the utmost discretion, taste, and proportion, while largely underlining the composer’s harmonic surprises through shifts of tone color and chord balances. The way in which the pianist floats soft cantabile legato lines often gives the illusion of more sustain pedal than is actually employed.

Sophie Pacini - Puzzle: Frédéric Chopin & Alexander Scriabin (2022)

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Sophie Pacini - Puzzle: Frédéric Chopin & Alexander Scriabin (2022)

Sophie Pacini - Puzzle: Frédéric Chopin & Alexander Scriabin (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 173 Mb | Total time: 53:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Fuga Libera | # FUG811 | Recorded: 2021

Hailed by the music press as one of the most gifted pianists of her generation and recipient of many international awards, established German-Italian pianist and ECHO winner Sophie Pacini invites us on a very personal journey across the pianistic cosmos. In her own words: “On this album, I have combined pieces which have accompanied and reassured me in seemingly small, but ultimately crucial moments of my life.”

Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)

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Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)

Maurizio Pollini - The complete Chopin recordings from 1972-2008 [9CDs] (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.38 Gb | Total time: 06:33:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9908 | Recorded: 1972-2008

Combining clarity with a dazzling technique, investing the music "with a symphonic gravitas, elemental power and electrifying modernity" (International Record Review), over three-and-a-half decades Maurizio Pollini has traversed the major works of Chopin as no other pianist of his time. Here is the legacy of this unique achievement, in a single box set for the first time. The complete Chopin recordings from 1972 to 2008 Comprising the Études, Preludes, Polonaises, Sonatas, Scherzi, Ballades, Nocturnes Also includes the 2008 recital.

François Chaplin - Frédéric Chopin: 19 Valses (2022)

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François Chaplin - Frédéric Chopin: 19 Valses (2022)

François Chaplin - Frédéric Chopin: 19 Valses (2022)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 63:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Aparté | # AP270 | Recorded: 2020

Very popular during Chopin’s lifetime, the waltzes have long been a favourite with professionals and amateurs alike. Highly virtuosic - most of them were clearly not intended to be danced - and sometimes melancholy, they nevertheless retain the distinctive lightness and grace that we associate with the genre. These pieces have accompanied François Chaplin since his early days as a pianist. After so many years spent playing them, looking beyond their apparent simplicity and fathoming the depths of their poetry, this lifelong admirer of Chopin brings together here, on this magnificent recording - ten years after his complete Nocturnes - the composer’s 19 Waltzes. This complete and continuous reading enables us to perceive them as a whole, stunningly beautiful and full of verve.

Sviatoslav Richter & VA - Music Festival 'December Nights', Moscow 1985: Schumann, Schubert, Chopin (2014) 2CDs

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Sviatoslav Richter & VA - Music Festival 'December Nights', Moscow 1985: Schumann, Schubert, Chopin (2014) 2CDs

Music Festival 'December Nights', Moscow 1985: Schumann, Schubert, Chopin (2014) 2 CDs
Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Anatoly Kamyshev, clarinet; Oleg Kagan, violin;
Natalia Gutman, cello; Yuri Bashmet, viola

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 610 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 341 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | # MEL CD 10 02204 | Time: 02:29:03

Firma Melodiya continues the series of compact discs dedicated to December Evenings Festival that takes place at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. This album, like the previous one, is dedicated to the 1985 festival World of Romanticism and includes recordings featuring Sviatoslav Richter. The atmosphere of December Evenings, an event initiated by the great pianist, differed from usual philharmonic concerts. The spirit of music as an inseparable part of "fusion of arts" the romanticists dreamt of was invisibly felt in each number; a sensitive listener can catch it in these, perhaps technically imperfect, concert recordings from thirty years ago. The works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin were performed by Sviatoslav Richter in ensemble with his outstanding contemporaries, violinist and David Oistrakh's student Oleg Kogan who passed away prematurely, violist Yuri Bashmet, cellist Natalia Gutman and clarinettist Anatoly Kamyshov.

Nelson Freire - Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10, Barcarolle Op. 60, Sonata No. 2 (2005)

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Nelson Freire - Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10, Barcarolle Op. 60, Sonata No. 2 (2005)

Nelson Freire - Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10, Barcarolle Op. 60, Sonata No. 2 (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 207 Mb | Total time: 57:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 6617 | Recorded: 2004

If you've ever presumed Chopin was a miniaturist whose music is to be played daintily you are wrong, and this CD is living proof. The Sonata No. 2 is a grand work and Freire treats it as such. He creates great tension in the first movement and delivers; his "scherzo" is filled with tempi tricks that all somehow cohere as he fearlessly leaps all over the keyboard, and the finale, a harmonic puzzle of sorts, makes excellent sense with all of the melodic lines given equal strength. The Barcarolle is more ferocious than we're used to but it's still a valid reading, and the Etudes are, indeed, perfect studies, offering a superb student's eye view of each.

Maria João Pires - The Complete Erato Recordings [17CDs] (2014)

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Maria João Pires - The Complete Erato Recordings [17CDs] (2014)

Maria João Pires - The Complete Erato Recordings: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann [17CDs] (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3,79 Gb | Total time: 17:07:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato| # 2564631065 | Recorded: 1972-1987

With her refined, honest artistry, the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires - who turns 70 in July 2014 - is one of the musicians who defined the Erato label in the 1970s and 1980s. This 17-CD box presents all the recordings she made between 1972 and 1987. Reflecting the consistent focus of her repertoire, this box set's emphasis is on Austro-German composers of the Classical and early-Romantic periods. Embracing solo works, piano duets, and concertos, this release contains works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Beethoven, as well as by Bach and Chopin.

Janne Mertanen - Chopin (2023)

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Janne Mertanen - Chopin (2023)

Janne Mertanen - Chopin (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 176 Mb | Total time: 57:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19658857172 | Recorded: 2022

Pianist Janne Mertanen has been around since the turn of the century, recording thoughtful interpretations of Chopin and Scandinavian music on smaller labels, but when this Chopin collection appeared on Sony Classical in 2023, he had only recently been signed to the label. So perhaps he still qualifies as an up-and-comer. Mertanen put out an acclaimed pairing of the Chopin concertos several years ago, and on this release, he also sticks to larger forms with the Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, a pair Impromptus, the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, and the Barcarolle in F sharp minor, Op. 60. These are all later Chopin works, displaying the characteristic complexity of his music toward the end of his life.

Daniil Trifonov plays Frédéric Chopin (2011)

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Daniil Trifonov plays Frédéric Chopin (2011)

Daniil Trifonov plays Frédéric Chopin (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 66:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # B0018271-02 | Recorded: 2010

Following his successful 2012 release of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov tries on the more intimate role of recitalist for this live Decca album of solo piano pieces by Frédéric Chopin.

Evgeny Kissin - Chopin: Sonata in B Minor; Mazurkas, Volume 2 (1994)

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Evgeny Kissin - Chopin: Sonata in B Minor; Mazurkas, Volume 2 (1994)

Evgeny Kissin - Chopin: Sonata in B Minor; Mazurkas, Volume 2 (1994)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:03:58 | 212 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: 09026 62542 2| Catalog: RCA Victor Red Seal

This CD is possibly my favorite of all which I own. Kissin's technical prowess rivals that of pianists twice his age, yet it is neither age nor technique that sets him apart from his peers, but his unmatched sensitivity and insight. This is musicianship of the very highest caliber. Kissin has a special affinity for Chopin. His very natural touch and "declamation" sound like what one must imagine Chopin, himself, must have played.

Ingrid Haebler: The Philips Legacy [58CDs] (2022)

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Ingrid Haebler: The Philips Legacy [58CDs] (2022)

Ingrid Haebler: The Philips Legacy [58CDs] (2022)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 16,41 Gb | Total time: 65:28:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 2005 | Recorded: 1953-1979

"Terms such as “fastidious”, “intimate” and “quietly nuanced” have long been applied to the immensely respected Ingrid Haebler’s interpretations. She was a “purist” in the best sense of the word and has often said that she always sought to convey the essence of the music according to the language and style of the composer’s time. Her goal is that the listener should understand the structure and the message of the work, without anything to disrupt it. She has always been admired for the grace and shapeliness of her phrasing, her pellucid cantabile touch, her crystalline articulation, and the warmth, sensitivity, and quietly nuanced expressivity of her interpretations. With an imposing discography, Haebler was regarded by many as Philips’ “house pianist”. Decca now proudly presents her Complete Philips Recordings on 58CDs in tribute to this rare and special artist.