Frederic Chopin: Klaviersonaten Nr.2 & 3 on CD

Hamelin spielt Chopin
Neben exotischer, vergessener oder kaum spielbarer Klavierliteratur widmet sich der franko-kanadische Pianist Marc-André Hamelin auch immer wieder dem gängigen Klavierrepertoire. Auf seiner neuesten Aufnahme interpretiert er erstmals jenen Komponisten, dessen Name untrennbar mit der Entwicklung des modernen Klavierspiels verbunden ist: Frédéric Chopin. Hamelins pianistische Fähigkeiten kommen bei Chopin einmal mehr eindrucksvoll zur Geltung: Die kraftvollen Passagen gestaltet er impulsiv und energiegeladen, wunderbar warmherzig und einfühlsam dagegen die lyrischen Momente, und die technisch anspruchsvollen Passagen meistert er mit einer unvergleichlichen Brillanz und Leichtigkeit.

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Recent discs from Marc-André Hamelin have concentrated on music which is obscure, under-recorded or virtually unplayable. However in this latest recording he turns his attention to two mainstays of the Romantic repertoire: Chopin's Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. The results are simply staggering: playing of matchless brilliance and consummate artistry, stunningly recorded. As a recent critic of Hamelin's live performance of the B minor sonata remarked, »Hamelin starts where most other pianists leave off … such was his control that frequently it seemed as though an extra dimension were being added, the music's teeming internal life clarified by his ability to voice the inner parts«.

The disc is completed by some of Chopin's greatest single-movement works; the contrasting two Nocturnes of Op 27, the extraordinarily colouristic Berceuse Op 57 and the monumental Barcarolle in F sharp major. We think this is one of the most authoritative and important Chopin discs to have appeared in recent years—an unmissable release.

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»This is Chopin playing of a superior kind in which a musician of penetrating intellect is able to observe every detail of these miraculous scores … This is a fine example of supreme technical skill at the service of musical poetry« (Classic FM Magazine)

»Hamelin's fabulous, transcendental technique takes all the challenges of the treacherous keyboard writing in its stride … Hamelin's pianissimos have a wonderful purity and definition« (The Guardian)

»In the Op 27 Nocturnes his hesitations are masterly, while the Berceuse, the seductive opening track, shimmers with pensive beauty … An excellent excursion into standard repertoire for this adventurous pianist« (The Times)

»Though Hamelin has made many fabulous discs, particularly in repertoire of superhuman virtuosity, this is one of his very finest achievements to date« (Gramophone)

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