Schubert Nocturne

Krystian Zimerman - the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen – giving his Homage to Chopin and Schubert. As a brilliant musician, a renown specialist in Romantic music Krystian Zimerman combines all the prerequisites for an authorative interpretation of Chopin´s works.

A musician with a flamboyant style, the pianist Yanica Hristova invites us to discover three major Bulgarian composers whose music is not yet widely recorded. She intersperses these works with the famous first book of Schubert Impromptus.

From the notes: Although Myra Hess became a legendary musical figure in Britain towards the end of her life (an image sharpened greatly by the series of lunchtime concerts give at the National Gallery to soothe the nerves of the war-weary Londoners) she had prior to 1939 enjoyed a greater success abroad than in the country of her birth. Indeed, she did not give a BBC broadcast until 1927, and her first English recordings (two discs only) were not made until 1931, some twenty-four years after a reasonably auspicious 1907 London début with Beecham….. The Beecham concert (it took place at the Queen's Hall on 14th November 1907) had been followed later in the same year by a Birmingham recital, in which she was joined by a young violinist who wa also subsequently to achieve great fame, her friend Joseph Szigeti." written by Charles Haynes