Angela Lear Chopin - Original Chopin 2 (9 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Angela Lear, Chopin
Original Chopin 2
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Scherzo for piano No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39, CT. 199
2. Bolero for piano in C major/A major, Op. 19, CT. 8
3. Nocturne for piano No. 18 in E major, Op. 62/2, CT. 125
4. Ballade for piano No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, CT. 2
5. Mazurka for piano No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33/4, CT. 75
6. Polonaise-fantasy for piano No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61, CT. 156
7. Mazurka for piano No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17/4, CT. 63
8. Ballade for piano No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47, CT. 4
9. Scherzo for piano No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31, CT. 198

CD Details

All Artists: Angela Lear, Chopin
Title: Original Chopin 2
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Apr UK
Release Date: 8/1/1996
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Ballads, Short Forms, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 034065755520, 5024709155552

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CD Reviews

Lear and Chopin - Hand in Hand

Janet Wasserman | New York, NY | 03/20/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having just listened to Angela Lear playing Chopin, I must say how impressed I am with her great intelligence of interpretation and superb musicianship. This CD is a reading of Chopin I had not yet heard anywhere else. Ms. Lear uses marvelous dynamics in her Chopin (the composer had always been accused of playing too softly - possibly a result of the piano action of his era, and of the fact that he was really a very small, physically weak man with 'consumption', or possibly that is how HE wanted his music to be heard). Ms. Lear has a great Chopin technique - if anyone can intuit how he played never having heard him - that serves the composer and herself exceedingly well. The listener has another path into understanding the variety of music Chopin made; these scherzos, ballades and nocturnes are gem-like in Ms. Lear's hand - crystalline and perfect. His mazurkas are so amazingly rendered. Does Ms. Lear have any Polish ancestry hiding in her fingers? If you love Chopin, as I do, you cannot help but listen to Ms. Lear's playing with deep thanks. Where has she been? Why haven't we heard of her before? What a great Chopinian she is!"

A miraculous recording of Chopin at its best!

C. Moss | 03/14/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Of the five volumes of Ms. Lear's "Original Chopin" Series, Vol. 2 contains a selection of pieces that are evidently the artist's favorites. Ms. Lear's playing is always brilliant, but on this CD, she captures the real essence of Chopin's style in a unique way, conveying both great sadness and great joy with a lovely cantabile piano style, the like of which is seldom heard in the recordings of other artists. Of all the Chopin recordings that I own, this one is my favorite because it is a truly complete expression of the emotional gamut of Chopin's piano poetry. Ms. Lear has encapsulated samples of every kind of the composer's genius in the span of a single CD. This one is a keeper for anyone who loves Chopin piano works. It is a truly astounding CD of the highest rank!"