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Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-20

Nelson Freire (piano)

Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-20

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For Freire the Nocturnes are tirelessly experimental, an opalescent world of shifting moods and colours...True, there are moments when a once legendary and impeccable technique stiffens [...],...

Gramophone Magazine, May 2010

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Chopin: Nocturnes Nos. 1-20

Nelson Freire (piano)

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Awards:

For Freire the Nocturnes are tirelessly experimental, an opalescent world of shifting moods and colours...True, there are moments when a once legendary and impeccable technique stiffens [...],...

Gramophone Magazine, May 2010

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In celebration of Chopin Year – 2010 being the 200th birthday of the sui generis Polish genius – Nelson Freire, a Chopin interpreter of unique discernment, records the beloved Nocturnes 1-20

Nelson Freire is an acknowledged master of the keyboard. His recordings for Decca have won numerous awards, including a Gramophone Award, Diapason d’or, Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, and Choc du Monde de la musique. Freire is a past winner of the Dinu Lipatti Medal, first prize winner of the International Vianna da Motta Competition and was France’s Victoires de la Musique’s “Soloist of the Year” in 2002

A pianist’s pianist whose playing “sings” with every refinement of the school of bel canto, Nelson Freire is an artist whose profile deserves the attention of a wider classical market

In the opinion of The Dallas Morning News, “Any new Freire recording is virtually self-recommending.” To be launched in March, Freire’s is a key release of the Deutsche Grammophon/Decca Chopin campaign

  • Release date: 1st Mar 2010
  • Label: Decca
  • Catalogue number: 4782182
  • Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
  • Genres:

Contents and tracklist

Chopin: Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Work length5:34
Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Work length4:19
Chopin: Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3
Work length5:44
Chopin: Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1
Work length4:09
Chopin: Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2
Work length3:58
Chopin: Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3
Work length5:10
Chopin: Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Work length5:22
Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
Work length5:17
Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1
Work length4:14
Chopin: Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2
Work length4:45
Chopin: Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1
Work length6:21
Chopin: Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2
Work length5:57
Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Work length5:23
Chopin: Nocturne No. 14 in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2
Work length6:46
Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
Work length4:42
Chopin: Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2
Work length4:27
Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1
Work length6:17
Chopin: Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
Work length5:36
Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1
Work length4:35
Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
Work length3:34

Spotlight on this release

  • Frédéric Chopin

    26th Apr 2010by Chris O'Reilly

    Stephen Hough and Nelson Freire pay homage to the bicentenary of the Polish composer’s birth, and Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon issue extensive anniversary editions.

    Classical Recording of the Week

Awards and reviews

  • Presto Recording of the Week
    26th April 2010
  • Diapason d’Or de l’Année
    2010
    Winner - Piano

May 2010

For Freire the Nocturnes are tirelessly experimental, an opalescent world of shifting moods and colours...True, there are moments when a once legendary and impeccable technique stiffens [...], yet this is less than marginal in music-making so personal and reflective

5th March 2010

“Suppleness before everything,” Chopin used to tell his students. Freire does his best to follow suit, often varying quickenings and hesitations with a magician’s touch...A level of poetic enchantment...takes this music of sweet dreams and agitated melancholy through the night to victory
4 out of 5 stars
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