Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Emmanuel Despax
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD482
Release: 2017
Size: 783 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
24 Preludes, Op. 28
01. No. 1 in C Major
02. No. 2 in A Minor
03. No. 3 in G Major
04. No. 4 in E Minor
05. No. 5 in D Major
06. No. 6 in B Minor
07. No. 7 in A Major
08. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
09. No. 9 in E Major
10. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
11. No. 11 in B Major
12. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
13. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major
14. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
15. No. 15 in D-Flat Major ‘Raindrop’
16. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor
17. No. 17 in A-Flat Major
18. No. 18 in F Minor
19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major
20. No. 20 in C Minor
21. No. 21 in B-Flat Major
22. No. 22 in G Minor
23. No. 23 in F Major
24. No. 24 in D Minor
25. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57
26. Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60
“Chopin the composer has always fascinated me – multifaceted, complex, a man of paradoxes. His music has huge scope yet at the same time is incredibly intimate and poetic. He sometimes has a reputation for being merely a writer of sentimental salon music; I wanted to correct this through this recording, and demonstrate how timeless and relevant, indeed modern his message is…” Emmanuel Despax
Pianist Emmanuel Despax performs Chopin’s timeless collection of 24 Preludes, Op. 28, alongside the Berceuse in Op. 57 and Barcarolle Op. 60. Working from the latest editions as well as original facsimiles of Chopin’s scores, Despax’s brings his own passion for the works into performances that seek to remain as truthful to the composers’s intentions as possible on a modern instrument.