Bart van Oort, Costantino Mastroprimiano, Cor de Groot, Jan Vermeulen, Stanley Hoogland, Fred Oldenburg - Chopin: His contemporaries & his instruments (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.3 Gb | 06:29:58
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.3 Gb | 06:29:58
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics
This 6CD set charts not only the development of the Nocturne as a musical form, but also the development of the piano from the closing years of the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. Two great ‘piano schools’ had emerged, each having some of the greatest performers and composers of the day associated with them. Some of these composers were highly successful businessmen as well – Clementi and Pleyel in particular established highly successful piano manufacturing and music publishing firms. The English school, with its powerful instruments (of which the pianos of John Broadwood and Co are the best examples) enabled London based composers such as Cramer, Clementi and Dussek to write music with a singing almost bel canto quality.