Magdalena Zuk: Couleur de Temps
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Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Discovery
Magazine Review Date: 04/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DMV111
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(26) Preludes, Movement: C sharp minor, Op. 45 |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
(3) Nocturnes, Movement: F |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, Movement: Larghetto |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
Suite bergamasque |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
Pavane pour une infante défunte |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Magdalena Zuk, Piano Maurice Ravel, Composer |
(9) Preludes |
Karol Szymanowski, Composer
Karol Szymanowski, Composer |
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
Souvenir de Paganini (Variations in A) |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Magdalena Zuk, Piano |
Author: Edward Greenfield
Those are qualities to be cherished in all these pieces from Chopin onwards. The Suite bergamasque of Debussy brings finely controlled tonal contrasts with the ever-popular ‘Clair de lune’, third of the sequence, given the subtlest treatment imaginable, never rising above pianissimo. Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte then comes as a bit of a disappointment, nicely graded and transparent of texture, but one tends to miss the orchestral colouring.
The nine Szymanowski pieces then provide the main focus of the disc, and it would be hard to imagine them played more lovingly or more stylishly, with the links with Chopin evident throughout. It would be good now to hear Zuk in English piano music by Ireland or Bax. Trained in Paris and at the Royal College of Music in London, hers is plainly a talent to watch.
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