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Chopin Preludes

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin

Label: DG

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 36

Mastering:

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Catalogue Number: 413 796-2GH

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 1 in C Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 2 in A minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in G Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 4 in E minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 5 in D Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 6 in B minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 7 in A Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 8 in F sharp minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 9 in E Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 10 in C sharp minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 11 in B Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 12 in G sharp minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 13 in F sharp Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 14 in E flat minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 15 in D flat (Raindrop) Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 16 in B flat minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 17 in A flat Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 18 in F minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 19 in E flat Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 20 in C minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 21 in B flat Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 22 in G minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 23 in F Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 24 in D minor Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Maurizio Pollini, Piano
Almost a decade after its first appearance I find I still have some reservations about this generally well regarded set. Of course it contains some excellent things; the B flat major Prelude, for example, has a most beautiful sound, with finely balanced textures, and is played with an apt flexivility of pulse. The F major piece is a marvel of delicacy and legatissimo, and there is real menace in the E flat minor. Elsewhere Pollini, as in his version of Chopin's Etudes (DG CD 413 794-2GH—to be reviewed shortly), responds best to the many-noted turbulence of pieces like the Prelude in B flat minor. Yet the march-like E major is strangely lumpy for so highly accomplished a player, and the A minor is too brisk to convey its proper feeling of desolation. Digitally remastered, the sound is not much different from that on the LP.'

Chopin Preludes

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 1 in C

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 2 in A minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in G

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 4 in E minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 5 in D

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 6 in B minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 7 in A

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 8 in F sharp minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 9 in E

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 10 in C sharp minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 11 in B

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 12 in G sharp minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 13 in F sharp

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 14 in E flat minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 15 in D flat (Raindrop)

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 16 in B flat minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 17 in A flat

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 18 in F minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 19 in E flat

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 20 in C minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 21 in B flat

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 22 in G minor

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 23 in F

(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 24 in D minor

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