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Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4 / Nocturnes (Cortot, 78 rpm Recordings, Vol. 5) (1929-1951) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A triumphant end for the Cortot-Chopin series then. Good restoration work allows us to hear these performances in all their disputatious but teeming glory." (MusicWeb May 2007) |
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Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 - 3 / Polonaises (Cortot 78 rpm Recordings Vol. 4) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "A valuable repository of some of the most charismatic and resourceful Chopin playing on record" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
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Chopin: Nocturnes and Scherzi (Rec 1936-1937) Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ Naxos Historic Great Pianists / 2 CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] "Critics' Choice.' How remarkable to to have the greatest of Rubinstein's Chopin, his 1932-39 recoridngs, available on Naxos. A bargain of bargains, no more extrovert or subtly ebusive Chopin exists." - Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, January 2002 |
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Chopin Recordings Vol 2 (Incls 24 Preludes Op 28 & Ballades Nos 1-4) (Rec 1938-52) Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] This second volume of Moiseiwitsch's Chopin recordings focuses on the complete Préludes, Op. 28, which the great pianist had attempted to record, unsuccessfully, with the acoustic process, and the Four Ballades. The recording of the complete Préludes... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been taken to Poland in 1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobacco factory, before taking part in the... |
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Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "For me this is near the ideal in the performance of Chopin." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Dec 2010) |
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Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 11 (Rondos, Mazurkas, Variations) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] "With world-class playing it's remarkable. And at (bargain price) it's astonishing. Who's inspiring the superlatives - Ashkenazy, Pogorelich, Pollini? No: Idil Biret." Classic CD |
FRANZ LISZT
Idil Biret Solo Edition 3: Liszt - 12 Grandes Etudes Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos Idil Biret Edition / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-19 / Ecossaises, Op. 72 / Tarantelle, Op. 43 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "warm-hearted and pleasurable" - Classics |