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The Chopin Collection [Box Set] RCA Victor Europe 11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works Debussy: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 4 Chandos Mozart /Chopin/Rachmaninov: Richter - Classic Archive Euroarts Most of this DVD was made at a 1989 London concert filmed by the BBC The 74-year-old Richter insisted on a darkened hall a 40-watt gooseneck lamp trained on the music stand the only light source on stage while he played His purpose was to focus audience attention on the music not on the performer Whatever the intention the results can be compared to a mystical ceremony the pianist as High Priest invoking musical truths This ceremonial aspect of the concert is heightened by Richter s austere platform manner and the black backgrounds that engulf the picture Fortunately the BBC crew was able to capture closeups of Richter s hands on the keyboard giving us lessons in finger control dynamic gradations and legato playing To see how Richter accomplishes these and other effects is priceless But whatever idiosyncrasies were part of Richter s rare concertizing in his last years the musical performances are extraordinary Richter s Mozart was unique in its tempo variations and his infusion of strong Romantic overtones digging deep into the inner dramas of the scores His E Flat Major Sonata K 282 for example begins slowly but gains depth and gravity via his powerful bass line while In the C Major K 545 Richter s Andante sings soulfully The A Minor Sonata K 310 perhaps Mozart s greatest has great cumulative power while the slow movement becomes a tragic operatic aria in all but name The Chopin works selected Etudes take that composer out of the drawing room and into the larger frame of full-blooded Romanticism In Opus 10 No 2 we see Richter s scintillating right hand figures while Op 10 No 4 is a pianistic version of shock and awe especially after the songful No 3 and watching Richter in the finger-breaker of Op 25 No 8 is riveting A black-and-white bonus of three short works by Rachmaninov and Chopin show Richter 20 years younger the playing as extraordinary the body language and facial expressions far more mobile making a fitting close to a DVD all admirers of great pianism will want -- Dan Davis Best Relaxing Classics 100 EMI Classics This 6-CD set pulls together the 100 best slow movements and pieces of all time making it an amazing value for both the newcomer looking to become acquainted with classical music or the veteran listener who just wants something to help unwind Each CD has its own separate theme with the most relaxing selections from Baroque Romantic Modern Piano Mozart and Beethoven and Film Classics Artists include Martha Argerich Jessye Norman Maria Callas Yehudi Menuhin Jacqueline du Pre Choir of Kings College Cambridge Herbert von Karajan Simon Rattle and more CD 1 RELAXING BAROQUE r CD 2 RELAXING MOZART BEETHOVEN r CD 3 RELAXING FILM CLASSICS r CD 4 RELAXING ROMANTIC CLASSICS r CD 5 RELAXING PIANO FAVOURITES r CD 6 RELAXING CLASSICS OF MODERN TIMESMasters of Classical Music (Box Set) Delta Chopin: Etudes Deutsche Grammophon Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme Deutsche Grammophon The centenary of Olivier Messiaens birth provides an occasion for surveying his place in the landscape of musical creation This recording which brings together some relatively neglected pieces from his abundant output represents both an act of homage to the composer and a reflection on the special position his works occupy in 20th-century music In three segments it presents compositions of three different types each written at a difficult time in his life and emphasizing the fundamental role of the piano in his oeuvre The Pr ludes are among Messiaens earliest pieces written in 1928-29 when he was 20 and still a student at the Paris Conservatoire Later he described them as a collection of successive states of mind and personal feelings All eight were composed under the shock of the death of his mother the poet C cile Sauvage She is the dove of La Colombe while the heart-rending Cloches dangoisse et larmes dadieu gives us an idea of the traumatic effect of her death on so gentle and sensitive a youth Pieces dealing with grief and mourning are contrasted with others of great luminosity Thus the Chant dextase placed at the heart of this sombre landscape allows us a foretaste of the luminous grace of some of the Vingt Regards sur lEnfant J sus The cascading gems of Les Sons impalpables du r ve cast a musical spell entirely worthy of the finest works of the 1930s Messiaen ends his cycle with Un Reflet dans le vent a piece that is by turns angry and lyrical This may be a lesson in optimism on the part of a man of faith who was capable of turning to the light in the blackest of all possible circumstances an ability also manifested in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps written in a prisoner-of-war camp But it could also be an expression of the hope awoken in him by the works dedicatee the pianist Henriette Roget with whom he was in love The surreal titles of some of these Pr ludes adumbrate texts that the composer - who had a fondness for the poetry of Paul luard - would later write and set to music especially those of his song cycle Harawi But what is most impressive about them is the world of colour they inhabit a world both highly personal and already strongly defined Each piece involves detailed associations between sound and colour According to the composer the fifth Pr lude is polymodal superimposing an orange-blue ostinato on chordal cascades in a violet-purple mode that is invested with the timbre of a Chopin: Etudes/Preludes/Polonaises Deutsche Grammophon Chopin may have distrusted romanticism yet no other romantic composer has worn as well His music both stings and sings with harmonic adventurousness together with an uncanny instinct for the geography of the keyboard The Op 28 Pr ludes exemplify Chopins genius for telegraphing big ideas into snug spaces while his tudes provide an index to his pianistic idiom Pollini fares best in the Pr ludes where his aristocratic pacing and cool control allow the musics mood swings to speak for themselves The tudes glitter with icy accuracy but the Polonaises lack Rubinsteins rhythmic snap and generosity of spirit Still Pollinis unruffled pianism remains the envy of every conservatory student and competition aspirant DGs analog sonics are fully competitive --Jed Distler Van Cliburn - My Favorite Debussy RCA RCA Best Classics 100 Volume 2 Angel Records