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| Chopin: The Four Ballades, Berceuse, Etc / Evgeny Kissin | |||||
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Release Date: 05/18/1999 Label: Rca Victor Red Seal Catalog #: 63259 Spars Code: DDD Composer: Frédéric Chopin Performer: Evgeni Kissin
Number of Discs: 1 |
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This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)." Evgeny Kissin has progressed from the wide-eyed, innocent interpreter of his first discs into a very aware and increasingly mature artist. Chopin is the composer who looms largest in his discography, and here in the four Ballades he seemingly takes their narrative origins to heart with a great deal of rhetorical hesitation and acceleration. The dynamic range employed is huge, from whispered pianissimos to thunderous fortissimos. If not perhaps the most natural way to play Chopin, it is an approach with many rewards and certainly brings out the kinship to opera that permeates Chopin's music. The melodies are inflected much the way a great singer performing an aria of Bellini's would inflect the musical line. This individualization of the music continues with gentle but powerful readings of the Berceuse and the Barcarolle. With the addition of the Fourth Scherzo, this is a generous selection of Chopin in storyteller mode. The recording captures Kissin's Steinway to near perfection, giving him the best possible sound to explore his maturing vision of Chopin. |
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Ballade for Piano no 1 in G minor, B 66/Op. 23 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1831-1835 |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 9 Minutes 52 Secs. |
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Ballade for Piano no 2 in F major/a minor, B 102/Op. 38 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1836-1839; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 7 Minutes 38 Secs. |
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Ballade for Piano no 3 in A flat major, B 136/Op. 47 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1840-1841; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 8 Minutes 0 Secs. |
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Ballade for Piano no 4 in F minor, B 146/Op. 52 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1842; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 11 Minutes 41 Secs. |
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Berceuse for Piano in D flat major, B 154/Op. 57 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1844; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 4 Minutes 44 Secs. |
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Scherzo for Piano no 4 in E major, B 148/Op. 54 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1842; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 10 Minutes 33 Secs. |
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Barcarolle for Piano in F sharp major, B 158/Op. 60 by Frédéric Chopin | ||||
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Performer:
Evgeni Kissin (Piano)
Period: Romantic Written: 1845-1846; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 08/1998 Venue: Southwest German Radio Studio, Freiburg Length: 8 Minutes 56 Secs. |
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