Chopin Genius Loci

Bart van Oort - Frédéric Chopin & John Field: Nocturnes (Complete) [4CDs] (2006) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 9, 2024

The Nocturne is a romantic piano piece in which a nocturnal, romantic atmosphere is expressed, where perfumed melodies float serenely over a calmly murmuring accompaniment.-Credit where credit is due: the inventor of the genre is the Irish composer John Field, who made fame as a pianist of his own works. It needed the genius of Chopin to perfect the genre to the highest artistic level: Chopin's Nocturnes are the archetypes of romantic piano music, and count among his best loved works.

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VA - Chopin: Masterpieces (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 28, 2023

VA - Chopin: Masterpieces (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 720 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 532 MB
3:24:20 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Frédéric Chopin was the most famous composer of Polish origin in the history of Western concert music. He was a progressive who revolutionized the harmonic content, the texture, and the emotional quality of the small piano piece, turning light dance forms, nocturnes, and study genres into profound works that were both daring and deeply inward. Born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin to a French father and a Polish mother, probably on March 1, 1810, he was a native of Zelazowa Wola village west of Warsaw. In these rustic surroundings, he was exposed to both the classics of keyboard music (including, significantly, those of Bach), by teachers who immediately recognized him as a prodigy, and to Polish folk music, which would be reflected in a pioneering musical nationalism. He quickly outstripped the talents of most of Warsaw's top piano and composition teachers, and when he graduated from the Main School of Music in 1829, professor Józef Elsner pronounced him a genius.

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Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Polonaises (1976) [Reissue 2003] MCH SACD ISO Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Feb. 20, 2020

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Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Polonaises (1976) [Japan 2010] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Feb. 20, 2020

Maurizio Pollini is an Italian pianist. He is known for performances of compositions by Chopin and Debussy, among others. Maurizio Pollini makes it virtually impossible to imagine Chopin's Polonaises played with greater clarity, force and resolution. Not for him the odd approximation or slip of the finger: everything is ruthlessly, indeed frighteningly, concentrated and of the essence.

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Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer eBooks & eLearning

Posted by DZ123 at Oct. 26, 2019

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The Rubinstein Collection Volume 16 - Chopin Preludes & Piano Sonata 2 Music

Posted by wursthans at July 4, 2009

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Noel Mewton-Wood Vol 1 - Chopin, Piano Concertos Music

Posted by DentonW at July 22, 2011

Noel Mewton-Wood Vol 1 - Chopin - Piano Concertos
EAC (FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG) | Complete Scans 300/600 dpi | 1CD, 169 MB + 4,37 MB (.rar) | FS and RS
Classical | Label: Dante HPC 105, France 1998 (mono recording)

Noel Mewton-Wood’s (1922-53) journey from underestimated virtuoso to present-day icon is cause for both celebration and irony. Glowing testimonials to his ‘genius’ (Sir Malcolm Sargent) from Myra Hess, Beecham, Schnabel, Bliss, Hindemith and Britten were countered by indifference from the major record labels and concert managements, a situation that doubtless contributed to his suicide at the age of 31. Behind an ebullient surface, Mewton-Wood was a romantic idealist, susceptible to depression and mood-swings. So it is hardly surprising to find the dichotomy reflected in performances which alternate a luminous poetic delicacy with a rare energy and bravura. [[i]Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, November 2003

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In Search of Chopin (2014) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Jan. 2, 2017

In a new film from the director of award-winning and critically acclaimed trilogy In Search of Mozart, In Search of Beethoven & In Search of Haydn Phil Grabsky brings us the music and life story of one of the world's favourite composers, Fryderyk Chopin.

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Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Polonaises (1976/1998/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at April 5, 2017

Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Polonaises (1976/1998/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 61:36 minutes | 0.99 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Here is Pollini in all his early glory, in performances expertly transferred from 1976. Shorn of all virtuoso compromise or indulgence, the majestic force of his command is indissolubly integrated with the seriousness of his heroic impulse. Never have I been compelled into such awareness of the underlying malaise beneath the outward and nationalist defiance of the Polonaises. The tension and menace at the start of No. 2 are almost palpable, its storming and disconsolate continuation made a true mirror of Poland’s clouded history.

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Lucas Debargue - Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 23, 2017

Lucas Debargue - Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 77:21 minutes | 1.15 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The most-talked about artist of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition created huge excitement and world-wide media attention with his riveting background and “genius-like playing” (Boris Berezovksy). Debargue, who is 25, started the piano late at 11 years old, learning mostly in isolation. After dropping the instrument for three years to play in a rock band and study literature, he started formal piano training aged 20. Placed 4th, he was described by media as “the real winner” of the competition and received the Music Critics’ Association award as “the pianist whose incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience.”

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