Krzysztof Jablonski: Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & 25 CD

Krzysztof Jablonski - Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & 25

Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & 25

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Cat No: NIFCCD047

Release Date: 17 November 2017

Label: NIFCCD

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5906395034017

Genres: Classical

Release Date: 17 February 2017

Label: NIFCCD

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5907690736965

Genres: Classical

Description
The complete Etudes of Fryderyk Chopin performed of one of Poland's most superb pianists, Krzysztof Jablonski, on a period instrument.

Following Krzysztof Jablonski's interpretations of the Etudes Op. 10 and 25 on a contemporary piano (NIFCCD215, 2016), the Fryderyk Chopin Institute presents the Etudes on a piano from Chopin's era. Each disc is an example of superb piano playing however, together, aside from their artistic value, they are also of exceptional research value, as they provide the chance to directly compare sonic and interpretative differences in specific pieces.
One specific feature of Chopin's Å“uvre is a peculiar synthesising of different genres. Some etudes, for example, display characteristics of a nocturne (the E major and E-flat minor from op. 10 and the C-sharp minor from op. 25), scherzo (the G-flat major from op. 10, which according to Anton Rubinstein is a kind of 'refined joke', and the E minor from op. 25) or an impromptu (also the G-flat major from op. 10). Chopin's etudes have been called 'immortal' works (Ignacy F. Dobrzynski). For Hugo Leichtentritt, they were 'a succession of felicitous discoveries of the capacities of the piano'; for Vladimir Jankelevitch, 'a microcosm, a miracle'; and for Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski, 'the revelation of new horizons in the domain of piano playing [â€¦].'

Krzysztof Jablonski won Third Prize at the 11th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1985, as well as numerous top prizes at international piano competitions in Milan (1980), Palm Beach (1988), Monza (1988), Dublin (1988), New York (1989) and Calgary (1992), and also the Gold Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (1989).

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The form of Chopin's Etudes, Op. 10 is clearly in three phases or parts.The principal melodic-figurational motif is exposed in the opening phase or part, transformed in the middle phase, often in a contrasting texture, and returns in the reprise, which is never explicit and ends with a coda, cadenza or epilogue.

The history of the autographs of the Etudes, Op. 10 is rather complicated, but six of them – Nos. 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 – were still held during the nineteenth century in the Königliche Bibliothek, then the Preussische Staatsbibliothek, in Berlin.

In 1949, on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the Presidium of the German People's Council handed them over 'to the Polish nation, as a token of expiation'. Donated to the National Museum, they were passed to the Fryderyk Chopin Society, initially as a deposit (in 1958) and then as a donation (in 1968). Today, they are held in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum, together with copies of Etudes Nos. 1 and 2.

A facsimile edition of the six etudes listed above (source commentary by Irena Poniatowska) was issued by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in 2007. An autograph of the Etude in C sharp minor, No. 4 was purchased by the Fryderyk Chopin Society in 2004 (now in the Chopin Museum as deposit D 106). The remaining autographs are held abroad: the Etude in C major, No. 7 in New York, and the Etudes in E flat major No. 11 and in C minor No. 12 in Stockholm.

The second cycle of Etudes, Op. 25, written by 1837, probably in the years 1835–1837, and dedicated to Liszt's beloved Countess d'Agoult, expands the range of technical means still further.
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