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Special offer. Chopin - The Complete Études

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

Chopin - The Complete Études
In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25,...

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In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25,...

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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth we are reissuing on Helios some of the finest performances from Garrick Ohlsson’s complete Chopin project, originally recorded for the American label Arabesque and reissued on Hyperion as a 16 CD boxed set CDS44351/66) in 2008. Sadly unacknowledged at the time of their original issue (very few of the original discs received much review coverage), these CDs include some of the greatest contemporary Chopin playing and include definitive performances of the complete etudes and mazurkas. It’s worth remembering the not only did Garrick win the 1970 Chopin competition (the only American to do so), but he also won the special prize for Mazurka playing, that most idiomatically Polish genre of Chopin’s output.

  • Release date: 4th Jan 2010
  • Label: Helios
  • Catalogue number: CDH55380
  • Length: 66 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
Work length28:48
  • Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1996-10-31
  • Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
No. 1 in C Major
Track length1:51
No. 2 in A Minor "Chromatique"
Track length1:34
No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse"
Track length4:20
No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor "Torrent"
Track length2:01
No. 5 in G-Flat Major "Black Keys"
Track length1:40
No. 6 in E-Flat Minor "Lament"
Track length3:40
No. 7 in C Major
Track length1:27
No. 8 in F Major
Track length2:28
No. 9 in F Minor
Track length2:12
No. 10 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:10
No. 11 in E-Flat Major "Arpeggio"
Track length2:44
No. 12 in C Minor
Track length2:41
Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
Work length31:34
  • Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1996-10-31
  • Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Harp Study"
Track length2:36
No. 2 in F Minor "The Bees"
Track length1:37
No. 3 in F Major "The Horseman"
Track length1:50
No. 4 in A Minor "Paganini"
Track length1:59
No. 5 in E Minor "Wrong Note"
Track length3:29
No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor "Thirds"
Track length2:00
No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor "Cello"
Track length5:45
No. 8 in D-Flat Major "Sixths"
Track length1:09
No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly"
Track length0:57
No. 10 in B Minor "Octave"
Track length4:08
No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"
Track length3:35
No. 12 in C Minor "Ocean"
Track length2:29
Chopin: 3 Nouvelles études, KKIIb / 3
Work length6:31
  • Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1996-10-31
  • Recording Venue: Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
No. 1 in F Minor
Track length2:17
No. 2 in D-Flat Major
Track length2:03
No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:11

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In Op. 10, he is just about unsurpassed in the gruelling A minor study, and he flutters beautifully in the seventh study, which he takes really fast. If anything, he is even better in Op. 25, controlled and disciplined, never indulging in the sort of rhythmic licence that disguises technical shortcomings.
He has a dark side, too, revealed in Op. 10/6 and Op. 25/7
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