Chopin: Valses Alexandre Tharaud

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  • Release Date: 06/13/2006
  • Label: HARMONIA MUNDI FR.
  • UPC: 794881800520
 
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With his first Chopin recording, the young French pianist Alexandre Tharaud makes a bold choice by selecting the composer's 19 waltzes. Although for many pianophiles this music will probably always belong to Dinu Lipatti, as recorded in 1950 shortly before his untimely death, Tharaud emerges as a genuine contender here, his playing a model of elegance, clarity, and carefully nuanced touch at the keyboard. Like Lipatti, he foregoes a chronological survey of the waltzes, weaving them instead into an order of his own devising (and including five posthumously published pieces that Lipatti left out). Tharaud's program effectively places several of the more somber or nostalgic minor-key waltzes in a sequence at the recital's heart, casting an extended spell that's broken, scherzo-like, by the so-called "Minute Waltz," which is given a warmly capricious reading rather than being played as a race against the clock. Federico Mompou's charmingly subtle Valse-Évocation, based on a theme of Chopin, is an inspired choice as an encore to this outstanding recital. Scott Paulin, Barnes & Noble



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