Journal Intime: Chopin Piano Works
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Label: Virgin
Cat No: 4578452
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 22nd February 2010
Contents
Works
Ballades (4)Ecossaises (3), op.72
Fantasy in F minor, op.49
Impromptu no.4 in C sharp minor, op.66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Largo in E flat major
Mazurkas (51)
Artists
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)Works
Ballades (4)Ecossaises (3), op.72
Fantasy in F minor, op.49
Impromptu no.4 in C sharp minor, op.66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
Largo in E flat major
Mazurkas (51)
Artists
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)About
Many of these pieces have been in Tharaud’s repertoire since his student days: “I let time work for me. It is extraordinarily enriching to study a work when you are young and then revisit it in the course of your life. It becomes part of you.”
Tharaud, born in Paris in 1968, takes a discerning approach to repertoire, highlighting and often juxtaposing composers such as Bach, Rameau, Couperin, Chabrier, Satie, Ravel, Poulenc and Thierry Pécou (b.1965).
His catalogue of recordings for Harmonia Mundi has contributed substantially to his reputation:
“Alexandre Tharaud [is] a young aristocrat of the keyboard. Cool, supple and elegant, all his performances are in the best French tradition; a fine union of sense and sensibility ... each phrase bringing a renewed sense of delight … the inwardness and grace one associates with true artists ... All these performances suggest a fastidious musical intelligence with an immaculate technique, the music's character and fragrance made light yet pervasive ... these scrupulously modern and sensitive performances are among the finest available." - Gramophone
"Alexandre Tharaud plays Chopin with superlative technique. (...) He has recorded a breathtaking disc … This is intelligent playing that matches its clarity with perception and sensitivity, and variety of touch with sonic beauty. Tharaud is unfailingly responsive to melodic nuance and seems to relish every new twist of the texture. But there is also immense power when the dark energy beneath is unleashed. His concept plumbs the depths of Chopin's musical psyche with humility … a brilliant and original performance." - BBC Music Magazine
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