Composer: Frédéric François Chopin
Performer: Lestari Scholtes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogue: CC72996
Release: 2024
Size: 425 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Impromptu: No. 1 in A-Flat Major
02. Mazurka, Op. 17: No. 4 in A Minor
03. Mazurka, Op. 7: No. 1 in B-Flat Major
04. Ballade, Op. 47: No. 3 in A-Flat Major
05. Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posthum
06. Etude, Op. 25: No. 2 in F Minor “The Bees”
07. Etude, Op. 10: No. 12 in C Minor “Revolutionary”
08. Prelude, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major, “Raindrop”
09. Fantasie-Impromptu, Op. 66, in C-Sharp Minor
10. Marche Funèbre in B-Flat Minor (from “Sonata Op. 35”)
11. Waltz, Op. 69: No. 2 in B Minor
12. Waltz, Op. 64: No. 1 in D-Flat Major, “Minute Waltz”
This disc is pianist Lestari Scholtes’s first solo disc. The selection is both a personal one and also a private story of Chopin, as the pieces outline a journey in time through his entire output.
“To me, this album is both a personal story and a musical narrative about one of the (piano) composers I find the most fascinating: Frederic Chopin. I chose a dozen works; twelve of his jewels that represent different stages of his life and that each hold a particular significance for me. I open up this album with the First Impromptu, the first of Chopin’s works I was to learn as a young teenager. The album closes with the first piece by Chopin that I heard as a toddler: my mother often played the Waltz, opus 64 no. 1, at home on our dark brown Rippen piano. My mother, who was always so closely involved and supportive from the first time I reached up to the piano as a young girl until my last concert before her untimely death last April.” – Lestari Scholtes
Lestari Scholtes features on three discs in the Challenge Classics Catalogue: she is the pianist of Trio 258 (Rachmaninov: CC 72920) and of the Scholtes & Janssens piano duo (Mozart/Schubert: CC 72848 and Ten Holt; CC 72987).