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Release Date: 11 October 2024
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917299625
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This disc is pianist Lestari Scholtes's first solo disc. The selection is both a personal one and also a private story of Chopin, as the pieces outline a journey in time through his entire output.
"To me, this album is both a personal story and a musical narrative about one of the (piano) composers I find the most fascinating: Frederic Chopin. I chose a dozen works; twelve of his jewels that represent different stages of his life and that each hold a particular significance for me. I open up this album with the First Impromptu, the first of Chopin's works I was to learn as a young teenager. The album closes with the first piece by Chopin that I heard as a toddler: my mother often played the Waltz, opus 64 no. 1, at home on our dark brown Rippen piano. My mother, who was always so closely involved and supportive from the first time I reached up to the piano as a young girl until my last concert before her untimely death last April." - Lestari Scholtes
Lestari Scholtes features on three discs in the Challenge Classics Catalogue: she is the pianist of Trio 258 (Rachmaninov: CC 72920) and of the Scholtes & Janssens piano duo (Mozart/Schubert: CC 72848 and Ten Holt; CC 72987).
Tracklisting
Duo Saraswati
Lestari Scholtes
Trio Fibonacci
Alma Quartet
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jan Willem de Vriend
Aseo Friesacher
Theo Plath, Armand Djikoloum, Olivier Stankiewicz, Sakoto Doi, Jordi Carrasco Hjelm
Lestari Scholtes
Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim
Various artists
Pina Napolitano
Various Artists
Nicolai Lugansky
Tom Beghin
Milosz Maczynski
