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Imaginative Chopin from Louis Lortie

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This was our Download of the Week from 28 June to 4 July 2010, and is no longer available to download.

Your free download this week is from the first volume of pianist Louis Lortie's Chopin cycle on Chandos (CHAN 10588). We've chosen the E minor Nocturne, Op. 72 No. 1. Thought to be the earliest work Chopin wrote in the genre, in Warsaw in 1827, this Nocturne was published posthumously.

'Lortie's musicianship is imaginative but never eccentric,' says John Allison in the July issue of BBC Music Magazine. '[His] technique is always at the service of the music.'

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Comments: 3

chopin music

Mon, 05/07/2010 - 02:24
CB Ulep

please download

About weekly download samples.

Fri, 02/07/2010 - 12:41
cafyon

Thank you for sharing a sample a week. But... Is it possible to download material in - at least - 16 bit resolution 44.1 kHz sampling format, either FLAC or wave? Downloading in mp3 format is nonsense.

download files

Sat, 03/07/2010 - 19:19
aaa0303

Fully agree with previous post- the actual audio quality of the mp3 file is poor and really does no justice to Lortie. For a supposedly top music magazine, a highly compressed, badly encoded mp3 file is surely quite embarrassing??

C'mon BBS MUS MAG, you can do better than this.

For those of us music lovers who have invested in a high-end hi-fi soundcard, these files are somewhat of a let down. Sorry!!