Chopin chez Pleyel
Alain Planès (piano Pleyel 1837coll. Anthony Sidey)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Finalist
…Planès himself works poetic magic, with wonderfully paced phrasing and a style of rubato replete with beautifully judged elasticity and grace; and he has explored Chopin's approach to improvised...
Chopin chez Pleyel
Alain Planès (piano Pleyel 1837coll. Anthony Sidey)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Instrumental Finalist
…Planès himself works poetic magic, with wonderfully paced phrasing and a style of rubato replete with beautifully judged elasticity and grace; and he has explored Chopin's approach to improvised...
About
A journey into Chopin's world . . . On 21 February 1842, the Polish composer gave one of his very rare concerts: he did not enjoy appearing in public, for his music was above all a chamber art. Alain Planès has striven to recreate the programme of this concert as closely as possible and recorded it on a Pleyel piano of 1836 that the composer might have played.The questions he throws up in the process are fascinating: how did Chopin play? Apart from his famous rubato, what was the role of ornamentation, and indeed improvisation?
Contents and tracklist
Chopin:
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47: Ballade No. 3 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 47
Work length8:32
Awards and reviews
January 2010
…Planès himself works poetic magic, with wonderfully paced phrasing and a style of rubato replete with beautifully judged elasticity and grace; and he has explored Chopin's approach to improvised ornamentation to tasteful effect. There's not a meaningless note in the whole disc.
28th February 2010
Alain Planès...is obviously at home with the instrument, and plays finely. He also makes a gallant attempt at recapturing Chopin’s famously fluid style of playing. The A flat ballade is particularly pleasing.
7th January 2010
The revelations stem from the admirable restraint of Planès's playing...The Nocturnes... combine elegance with profundity, while the selection from the Op 25 Etudes is exquisitely done.
