Tag: Frédéric Chopin
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Jewels of French Ballet
“The orchestra is on its toes, and Solti gets some exhilarating playing … Gounod’s unshakably popular dances for Goethe’s vision of a Witches’ Sabbath, is welcomed for excellent playing and sumptuous sound” “Karajan’s re-thinking that has gone into these makes them unusually exciting. Coppélia in particular sounds much better music than in most performances, and…
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Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas
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Ashkenazy plays Chopin, Rachmaninov, Liszt, & Prokofiev
“Ashkenazy was in his early twenties when he set down these recordings … It’s inevitable that this evinces youthful fire but it’s accompanied by a tempering rigorousness of mind and of execution … what emerges, is precisely that elevated marrying of technical accomplishment and intellectual control, devoid of flashy gestures … where poetic richness is…
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Fryderyk Chopin: The Polonaises
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Classic Valentine – Music for Love
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CHOPIN: Complete Ballades & Impromptus
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25 Thunderous Classics
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25 Classical Favorites
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25 Romantic Classics
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25 Piano Favorites
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Ashkenazy plays Chopin
Ashkenazy won second prize at the Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1955), first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1956) and shared first prize in the Tchaikovsky Competition (1962), after which his career took off worldwide. This collection is devoted to Chopin, whose works have been central to Ashkenazy’s career and for whose…
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Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin
“Lipatti’s classic performances were recorded by Walter Legge in a dry Swiss Radio studio in the last year of Lipatti’s short life, and with each LP incarnation they seem to have grown in wisdom and subtlety. The reputation of these meticulous performances is fully deserved” (Penguin Guide rosette/ key recording)
