Paderewski - His final Recordings

Paderewski is Paderewski and this disc brings fascinating insights in terms of tempos, sound and imagination. He is technically past it in the Chopin A flat Polonaise, but there’s enough magic in the Nocturnes to buy the disc just for those. Jessica Duchen

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Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:27 pm

COMPOSERS: Paderewski
LABELS: APR
WORKS: The HMV recordings 1937 & 1938
PERFORMER: Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: APR 5636

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.