Chopin: Fantaisie F Minor, Ballades, Nocturnes, Mazurkas [Audio CD]

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Product DescriptionCritically acclaimed pianist Yevgeny Sudbin here presents a recital of music from Fryderyk Chopin. Sudbin opens this disc with the expansive Fantaisie in F minor sometimes described as the composer’s ‘grandest work’ continuing with a selection of pieces from three genres that are strongly associated with Chopin: Mazurkas, Nocturnes and the Ballades Nos 3 and 4. Sudbin’s approach to Chopin s music has been influenced by the composer’s own words regarding interpretation: ‘Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.’ In his own paraphrase of the composer’s Minute Waltz, entitled A la minute, Sudbin displays all of his skills that led Piano Magazine to describe him as ‘a fearless technician with an all-encompassing command of his instrument; a musical dramatist of exceptional acumen and sophistication; a poet who moves seamlessly between unbridled rhetoric and extreme intimacy; a stylist who catches the particular spirit of everything he plays’.ReviewEndlessly fascinating. Performance Recording –BBC Music Magazine,Christmas’11Among many outstanding Chopin recitals in the past two years celebrating the composer’s bicentenary, this one is among the very best, meticulously prepared yet spontaneous and freshly-minted. Another feather in the Sudbin cap. –Classic fm Magazine,Dec’11This is Chopin playing of the first rank, never exaggerated or overwrought but speaking with a natural eloquence that marks out the finest of Chopin interpreters, from the likes of Dinu Lipatti to modern exemplars such as Murray Perahia. –IRR,Dec’11ReviewSudbin’s Chopin selection with a personal twist. –Gramophone,Jan’12