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Track(s) taken from CDS44351/66

Nocturne in C minor, KKIVb/8

composer
No 21; 1837 (possibly 1827); published in 1938; not authorized for release by Chopin; primary composition is probably by Charlotte de Rothschild

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Recording details: October 1994
Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA
Produced by Adam Abeshouse
Engineered by Adam Abeshouse
Release date: November 2008
Total duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds

Cover artwork: Frédéric Chopin in concert at the Hotel Lambert, Paris (1840). Antar Teofil Kwiatowski (1809-1891)
Bibliothèque Polonaise, Paris / Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images
 

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Reviews

‘Hyperion's big deal … Ohlsson is a powerful and committed player, and is afforded very good sound by the engineers … this is almost certainly how these pieces were played in Chopin's time’ (The Mail on Sunday)

‘This is an oustanding achievement, which any genuine Chopin lover and student of Romantic music should own … a landmark in the recording of Chopin's music … Garrick Ohlsson and Hyperion deserve the greatest success in bringing this important undertaking to such a consistently impressive conclusion’ (International Record Review)

‘An attractively priced box set … Ohlsson is in a class of his own’ (Pianist)

‘The collaborative works receive particularly rewarding performances … Ohlsson arguably offers more consistent artistry than Biret, Ashkenazy, Magaloff, and Harasiewicz’ (Classics Today)

‘Garrick Ohlsson’s complete survey of everything Chopin wrote for piano (including chamber music, songs, and for piano and orchestra) will delight the completist and the Chopin connoisseur. Ohlsson (who won the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1970) gives us accounts of this wondrous repertoire in weighty and commanding style, aristocratic and impulsive (but not lacking light and shade or contemplative contrasts) and, at times, very sensitive and searching. These vivid recordings were made in the second half of the 1990s and have previously appeared on the Arabesque label. They now sit very well in Hyperion’s catalogue’ (Classical Source)
Although we have three manuscripts in Chopin’s hand of the Nocturne in C minor, the Swiss musicologist Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger has recently established that both this nocturne and the Waltz in A minor, Op posth., were composed primarily by Chopin’s pupil Charlotte de Rothschild in 1847. Chopin’s manuscripts of these works offer rare insight into how he taught composition—and why he did so: a pupil’s thorough formation at the keyboard required some grasp of musical composition. For at least some of his skilled amateur students, then, ‘pianist’ likely meant ‘pianist-composer’, just as it did for their illustrious teacher.

from notes by Jeffrey Kallberg © 2021

Si nous avons trois manuscrits de la main de Chopin pour le Nocturne en ut mineur, le musicologue suisse Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger a récemment établi que ce nocturne comme la Valse en la mineur, op. posthume, furent composés essentiellement par l’élève de Chopin Charlotte de Rothschild en 1847. Les manuscrits de Chopin pour ces œuvres nous donnent un rare aperçu de la façon dont il enseignait la composition—et de la raison pour laquelle il procédait ainsi: la formation pianistique approfondie d’un élève impliquait une certaine maîtrise de la composition musicale. Pour au moins quelques-uns de ses élèves amateurs de talent, à l’époque «pianiste» signifiait probablement «pianiste-compositeur», comme pour leur illustre professeur.

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

Obwohl es drei Manuskripte des Nocturnes c-Moll in Chopins Handschrift gibt, hat der Schweizer Musikwissenschaftler Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger kürzlich festgestellt, dass sowohl dieses Nocturne als auch der Walzer a-Moll, op. posth., hauptsächlich von Chopins Schülerin Charlotte de Rothschild im Jahr 1847 komponiert wurden. Chopins Manuskripte dieser Werke bieten einen seltenen Einblick, wie er Komposition lehrte, und warum er dies tat: die gründliche Ausbildung eines Klavierschülers erforderte ein gewisses Verständnis für Komposition. Zumindest für einige seiner begabten Laienschüler bedeutete „Pianist“ also wahrscheinlich „Pianist und Komponist“, genau wie für ihren berühmten Lehrer.

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

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