Chopin Preludes
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Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin
Label: Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga
Magazine Review Date: 5/1992
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 49
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: MK418028

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(26) Preludes |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Dina Joffe, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer |
Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 5/1992
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 754367-2

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 1 in C |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 2 in A minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 3 in G |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 4 in E minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 5 in D |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 6 in B minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 7 in A |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 8 in F sharp minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 9 in E |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 10 in C sharp minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 11 in B |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 12 in G sharp minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 13 in F sharp |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 14 in E flat minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 15 in D flat (Raindrop) |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 16 in B flat minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 17 in A flat |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 18 in F minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 19 in E flat |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 20 in C minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 21 in B flat |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 22 in G minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 23 in F |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
(26) Preludes, Movement: No. 24 in D minor |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Cantabile |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2 |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 21 in C minor (1837, pub 1938) |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Contredanse |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Tzimon Barto, Piano |
Author: Joan Chissell
In the clarity of his EMI engineering, Barto is luckier than the Russian, Dina Joffe, recorded at the Moscow Conservatoire where she once studied. While warm, her piano sounds too close and plummy, and in this reverberant venue she surely uses too much pedal for textural clarity in more vehement outbursts like Nos. 8 in F sharp minor, 12 in G sharp minor and 16 in B flat minor. In these her playing more than once loses an essential element of elegance and tonal refinement. In Nos. 18 in F minor and 22 in G minor I even wondered if she was trying to evoke a belligerent George Sand locked with Chopin in some domestic tiff. Though never quite as funereal as Barto in slower pieces, she, too, allows herself a great deal of time to make every note speak. While of course preferring her overtly romantic pursuit of expression to cold-heartedness (and when rationing her rubato, her phrasing can be eloquently expressive), I'm afraid I cannot recommend this shortish disc any more than I can Barto's as a full-price alternative to the catalogue's many more subtle stylists (not forgetting names like Rubinstein, Cortot, Pollini and Ashkenazy) in this music.'
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