Alfred Cortot - Volume 5: Chopin Ballades & Nocturnes | Naxos - Historical 8111245

Alfred Cortot - Volume 5: Chopin Ballades & Nocturnes

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111245

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th January 2007

Contents

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
Nocturnes (21)
» no.2 in E flat major, op.9 no.2
» no.4 in F major, op.15 no.1
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2
» no.7 in C sharp minor, op.27 no.1
» no.15 in F minor, op.55 no.1
» no.16 in E flat major, op.55 no.2

Artists

Alfred Cortot (piano)

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
Nocturnes (21)
» no.2 in E flat major, op.9 no.2
» no.4 in F major, op.15 no.1
» no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2
» no.7 in C sharp minor, op.27 no.1
» no.15 in F minor, op.55 no.1
» no.16 in E flat major, op.55 no.2

Artists

Alfred Cortot (piano)

About

As with previous discs, this fifth and final release in the Naxos series of Cortot’s 78 rpm era Chopin recordings includes versions of recordings which have not been reissued often, if at all.
 
The 1929 set of Ballades, which emerge from Cortot’s hands with all the passion and emotion, poetry and tenderness that were the hallmark of his playing, has been chosen over the more familiar 1933 remake. 
 
The 1949 re-recording of the Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 has not previously been available on CD outside of Japan. Cortot’s phrasing, colourful tonal palette and singing tone in the F major and C sharp minor Nocturnes are without equal, while the dramatic middle sections of these works explode in anguish or ecstasy.
 
Posterity has judged Alfred Cortot as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
 
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Recorded 7th June, 1929, London
 
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38; Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47;  Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Recorded 11th March, 1929, London
 
Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Recorded 19th March, 1929, London
 
Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Recorded 4th November, 1949, London
 
Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1
Recorded 17th October, 1951, London
 
Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2
Recorded 20th April, 1948, London
 
Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
Recorded 17th October, 1951, London
 
Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
Recorded 9th October, 1947, London
 
Nocturne No. 16 in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2
Recorded 15th October, 1947, London

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