Field: Complete Nocturnes
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JOHN FIELD
Field: Complete Nocturnes
Elizabeth Joy Roe (piano)
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 13 May 2016
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.
"For the first time, all 18 of John Field's Nocturnes are brought together on a single album. The critically acclaimed pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe gives us the fascinating chance to hear the birth of a musical form which was created by Field but perfected by Chopin, whose works overshadowed Field's from then on. Liszt described Field's Nocturnes as "half-formed sighs floating through the air, softly lamenting and dissolved in delicious melancholy." Roe brings pin-sharp accuracy coupled with tender lyricism to the pieces, that hopefully will now win back the attention they so richly deserve." (ClassicFM)
Tracks:
1. Nocturne No.1 in E Flat Major, H.24
2. Nocturne No.2 in C Minor, H.25
3. Nocturne No.3 in A Flat Major, H.26
4. Nocturne No.4 in A Major, H.36
5. Nocturne No.5 in B Flat Major, H.37
6. Nocturne No.6 in F Major, 'Cradle Song', H.40
7. Nocturne No.7 in A Major, H.14
8. Nocturne No.8 in E Flat Major, H.30
9. Nocturne No.9 in E Minor, H.46
10. Nocturne No.10 in E Major "Nocturne Pastorale", H.54
11. Nocturne No.11 in E Flat Major, H.56
12. Nocturne No.12 in E Major "Nocturne Caractéristique: Noontide", H.13
13. Nocturne No.13 in C Major "Rêverie-Nocturne", H.45
14. Nocturne No.14 in G Major, H.58
15. Nocturne No.15 in D Minor "Song without Words", H.59
16. Nocturne No.16 in C Major, H.60
17. Nocturne No.17 in C Major, H.61
18. Nocturne No.18 in F Major, H.62
