Chopin: Ballade No. 1; Ballade No. 2; Ballade No. 3; Ballade No. 4; Piano Sonata in B minor
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COMPOSERS: Chopin
LABELS: Hyperion Helios
ALBUM TITLE: Chopin piano works
WORKS: Ballade No. 1; Ballade No. 2; Ballade No. 3; Ballade No. 4; Piano Sonata in B minor
PERFORMER: Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: CDH 55182
Edge-of-the-seat emotional timing and poetic sensitivity give the Ballades a freshness unheard on disc since Ashkenazy’s mid-1960s Decca classic. The B minor Sonata is at a lower emotional temperature. Julian Haylock
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.