Chopin: Impromptus/Fantaisie Impromptu/Barcarolle/Berceuse
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Chopin's Impromptus have something of a reputation as "salon music," largely because the form itself seems to imply something improvised, transient, or insignificant. But when you play them like the greatest music in the world--which is exactly what Murray Perahia does--it's hard not to believe that the music actually is the greatest in the world, or in any event so fine as to make no difference. If other pianists treat them like pieces of fluff, that's their problem. The other two pieces are singletons, Chopin's sole effort in each genre. A "Berceuse" is simply a lullaby, and Chopin's is appropriately tranquil, while Barcarolle is a boat song, and this particular example is one of the composer's very finest works. --David Hurwitz
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Murray Perahia is the best for Chopin!
Very enjoy his performance for Chopin pieces.
I purchase many pianoists' CD for Chopin. But I have to say this one is the best among various all Chopin's piano CDs. You must buy it if you really love Chopin.
Chopin of rare distinction
To listen to this CD is to experience rare greatness in Chopin playing. Perahia distills through his crystalline purity of tone all the necessary nobility and virility. His traversal of the Impromptus is astonishingly straightfoward and unaffected. Nowhere is a phrase pulled out of shape. His Berceuse is a miracle of limpid phrasing and crystalline tone conjuring up images of a baby being lulled to sleep by the sound of a musicbox. Barcarolle, too, offers beautifully sculpted playing, Italianate in its poetry and aristocratically poised in phrasing. Lipatti and Rubinstein, I'm afraid, are second-bested by Perahia in this piece. In the Fantasie in f minor, Perahia's virtuosity is always at the service of the composer. Whatever other recordings of this repertoire you may own, this is an essential addition. Moreover, it is superbly recorded.
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