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Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No 1

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No 19; 1827; published in 1855 by Julian Fontana

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: 4 minutes 54 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)
The Nocturne in E minor, published posthumously as Op 72 No 1, is likely Chopin’s earliest, composed in Warsaw in 1827. The conceptual closeness of the vocal model is especially clear in those passages where Chopin set the melody in parallel thirds, a favourite technique in vocal nocturnes.

from notes by Jeffrey Kallberg © 2021

Le Nocturne en mi mineur, publié à titre posthume sous l’op.72 nº 1, est probablement le plus ancien de Chopin, composé à Varsovie en 1827. La proximité conceptuelle du modèle vocal est particulièrement claire dans ces passages où Chopin compose la mélodie en tierces parallèles, technique favorite dans les nocturnes vocaux.

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

Das Nocturne e-Moll, posthum veröffentlicht als op. 72 Nr. 1, ist wahrscheinlich Chopins frühestes Werk, das 1827 in Warschau entstand. Die Anlage ist dem vokalen Modell sehr nahe, was besonders in denjenigen Passagen deutlich wird, wo Chopin die Melodie in Terzparallelen setzt—eine beliebte Technik in vokalen Nocturnes.

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

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