Chopin - Works for Piano & Orchestra
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10142
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 26th May 2023
Contents
Works
Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise, op.22Fantasy in A major on Polish Airs, op.13
Krakowiak: Grand Rondeau de concert, op.14
Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, op.2
Artists
Ekaterina Litvintseva (piano)Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Conductor
Vahan MardirossianWorks
Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise, op.22Fantasy in A major on Polish Airs, op.13
Krakowiak: Grand Rondeau de concert, op.14
Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major, op.2
Artists
Ekaterina Litvintseva (piano)Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Conductor
Vahan MardirossianAbout
The Russian pianist Ekaterina Litvintseva redresses this neglect with a beautifully polished new album of all four pieces, for which she receives warmly idiomatic support from the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice, on an intimate scale which the composer would have recognised (and preferred).
Chopin wrote his variations of Mozart’s ‘La ci darem’ as a prodigally talented teenager, a composition exercise for his teacher back in Warsaw. While cast in the popular style of its time – a grand introduction for a popular operatic melody, elaborated with pianistic sleights of hand for maximum effect, and a rousing finale – the piece is inspired with moments of originality that elevate it above contemporary comparison pieces.
The Fantasy on Polish Airs and the Krakowiak soon followed, as Chopin was becoming celebrated across Europe as a new star of that new instrument, the piano. The themes in the Krakowiak are Chopin’s own,but their character is designedly Polish – mystic in the Romantic, piano-and-horn-led introduction, then sparkling with gaiety in the main Allegro. The same kind of formal balance is developed in the Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise, op.22: it opens with the kind of ethereal melody which would soon become known as inimitably characteristic of Chopin, the dreamer of the piano, pre-eminent master of his art in the generation after Beethoven at translating a poetic consciousness and private thoughts into the domain of music.
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