Chopin: Études
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Études
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
[ Piano Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 15 February 2015
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Even in this age where pyrotechnics seem commonplace, the recording of Chopin's complete Études presents a huge challenge for any pianist. Zlata Chochieva's interpretation is a special one: not only she conquers the daunting technical difficulties with apparent ease and supreme mastery, but she brings out the poetry, the colours, the joy and the sorrow of each individual study, thus creating a string of 24 miniature masterpieces, rather than a marathon of technical display.
Zlata's previous recording for Piano Classics (Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata 1 and Chopin Variations PCL0047) received high praise in the international press: "the possessor of a comprehensive technique she brings an inner glow to every bar. Her playing is indelibly Russian in its fullness and warmth, backed by dauntless and easy command…poetic and pianistic demand could hardly go further" (Bryce Morrison in Gramophone),
"Glowing, perfectly modelled, full of fantasy, 5 STAR" (Fono Forum),
"Zlata Chochieva is a pianist's pianist"(Musicweb).
"all I can say is that in each of the 27 studies Chochieva comes as close as anyone to how I hear the ideal performance in my head...No details are overlooked yet without drawing undue attention to them...The greatest on disc? I don't know; but it is certainly one of the most consistently executed and beautiful-sounding versions I can recall." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2015)
Tracks:
Études (12), Op. 10
Études (12), Op. 25
Trois Nouvelles Études
