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Track(s) taken from CDA67371/2

Lento con gran espressione in C sharp minor 'Nocturne', KKIVa/16

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No 20; composed as a wedding gift for the composer's sister Ludwika in 1830; published in 1875

Angela Hewitt (piano)
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Recording details: November 2003
Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
Produced by Ludger Böckenhoff
Engineered by Ludger Böckenhoff
Release date: November 2004
Total duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds
 

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Reviews

‘In a catalogue boasting many distinguished Chopin Nocturne cycles, Angela Hewitt's commands attention’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘One of the most elegant pianists around, the Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt interrupts her epic Bach and Couperin cycles for Hyperion to explore some of Chopin's most refined music, the complete Nocturnes and Impromptus. Hewitt's innate sophistication and delicacy of touch are perfectly suited to these exquisite pieces, 25 of them over two discs, by a master of the genre at the height of his fragile powers. Spanning almost his entire creative life, the Nocturnes amount to a remarkable graph of Chopin's emotional maturity, touchingly reflected in the affectionate care Hewitt brings to what sounds like a labour of love’ (The Observer)

‘Hewitt is not given to grand effects, whether an extreme rubato or rude dynamic change. Still, she can play grandly as well, as we hear on her powerful performance of the great Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor. This new recording of the nocturnes is what Marlon Brando would have called, if he had cared, a contender. It's richly recorded and beautifully played: it has art's final seal’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Angela Hewitt is a sound buy … the delicacy of touch and manicured precision of the phrasing is a delight’ (The Scotsman)
A wedding gift composed for Chopin’s sister Ludwika in 1830, the ‘Lento con gran espressione’ in C sharp minor wraps its sober nocturne-like principal theme around a livelier middle section that is a self-pastiche, with themes borrowed from two of Ludwika’s favourite compositions by her brother, the Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor and the song ‘Życzenie’.

from notes by Jeffrey Kallberg © 2021

Cadeau de mariage composé en 1830 pour la sœur de Chopin, Ludwika, le «Lento con gran espressione» en ut dièse mineur enroule son thème principal sobre dans le style d’un nocturne autour d’une section centrale plus animée qui est un autopastiche, avec des thèmes empruntés à deux des compositions que Ludwika préférait dans l’œuvre de son frère, le Concerto pour piano nº 2 en fa mineur et la mélodie «Życzenie».

extrait des notes rédigées par Jeffrey Kallberg © 2021
Français: Marie-Stella Pâris

„Lento con gran espressione“ in cis-Moll war ein Hochzeitsgeschenk, das Chopin 1830 für seine Schwester Ludwika komponierte. Hier umhüllt das nüchterne nocturneartige Hauptthema einen lebhafteren Mittelteil, der ein Pasticcio eigener Themen ist. Diese Themen stammen aus dem Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 in f-Moll und dem Lied „Życzenie“—zwei von Ludowikas Lieblingswerken der Kompositionen ihres Bruders.

aus dem Begleittext von Jeffrey Kallberg © 2021
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

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