Alfred Cortot plays Chopin / Schumann
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Label: Naxos - Historical
Cat No: 8111327
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 1st September 2008
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, op.35 'Funeral March'Carnaval, op.9
Kinderszenen, op.15
Waldszenen, op.82
Artists
Alfred Cortot (piano)Works
Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, op.35 'Funeral March'Carnaval, op.9
Kinderszenen, op.15
Waldszenen, op.82
Artists
Alfred Cortot (piano)About
This 1953 performance of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 is his fifth and final commercial recording of the work. Cortot wanted to record the work again partly because he felt his interpretation would be ‘an example for the young pianists, who are so little imbued with the Romantic spirit’.
His 1953 and third recording of Schumann’s Kinderszenen is notable for the familiar singing tone and poetic warmth he brings to Kind im Einschlummern (Child falling asleep) and Der Dichter spricht (The poet speaks). Cortot’s interpretation of the youthful romanticism of Carnaval is full of colour and character, far preferable to bland and uninspired subsequent accounts from lesser pianists.
Contents:
Chopin: Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 “Funeral March”
Recorded 7th-8th May 1953, in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.3
Schumann:
Kinderszenen, Op.15
Recorded 7th May 1953, in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.3
Waldszenen, Op.82: No.7, Vogel als Prophet
Recorded 19th April 1948, in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.3
Carnaval, Op.9
Recorded 7th-8th May 1953, in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.3
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