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Track(s) taken from CDS44351/66

Introduction and Variations on a German national air in E major 'Der Schweizerbub', KKIVa/4

composer
1824

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Recording details: June 1992
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: 8 minutes 41 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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Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

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)
Innocent and harmless, born of childhood and untroubled times, the variations on a German national air (1826) – actually not so much German as Tyrolean Austrian – can be seen as a preparation, in kind and method, for the larger scale canvas of the Là ci darem variations, Op 2 (1827).

from notes by Ateş Orga © 1991

Les variations sur un air nationaliste allemand (1826) – pas tant allemand que tyrolien – innocentes et sans malice, nées d’une enfance paisible, servent en quelque sorte de préparation, par leur style et leur méthode, au canevas plus ample des variations «Là ci darem», op.2 (1827).

extrait des notes rédigées par Ateş Orga © 1991
Français: Hypérion

Unschuldig und harmlos, geboren aus der Erinnerung an Kindheit und sorglose Zeiten, können die Variationen über ein deutsches Lied (1826) – „Der Schweizerbub“ – als formale und methodische Vorübung zu dem größeren musikalischen Gemälde der „Là ci darem“-Variationen, Op. 2 (1827) gesehen werden.

aus dem Begleittext von Ateş Orga © 1991
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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