Release Date: 04 November 2022
Label: Hanssler Cd / Hanssler Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 881488220490
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Frédéric Chopin
Description
Chopin shaped his two extended cycles of etudes into a pianistic cosmos that has a unique place in the literature for piano. The etudes for solo piano feature many technical possibilities composed with an accomplished sense of style. However, the main focus in each of the compositions is musical expression. Mechanical passages are nowhere to be found. The rich timbres of Chopin's virtuosity thus emerge as the basis for a nuanced tonal world blending Romantic sensibility with a manneristic stylistic approach. All in all: Chopin's etudes constitute a separate musical domain. They go beyond their own limits, reflecting on numerous other works by the composer in order to establish themselves as "styIistically anchored piIIars" within his piano aesthetics. Chopin redefined the genre. Without his pianistic and tonal innovations, the originality of later etudes - one need only think of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy and Ligeti - would probably be unimaginable.
Maxim Brilinsky
Heidelberger Sinfoniker; Thomas Fey; Johannes Klumpp
Verdi Quartett
Oregon Bach Festival Chamber O
Lala
Hatzopoulos Bunin, Pavlos Hat
Dekoor
Academy Of St. Martin In The F
