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Track(s) taken from CDS44351/66

Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 No 1

composer
No 19; 1827; published in 1855 by Julian Fontana

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: 4 minutes 50 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)
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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