Prima Facie presents More Preludes to Chopin, a remarkable and thought-provoking new CD by Kenneth Hamilton

As with the original CD, this new recording shares its inspiration with that of my book After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (Oxford University Press): a fascination with the performance styles of the so-called ”golden age” of pianism from Chopin and Liszt to Paderewski–from around 1830 to 1945–and an abiding interest in how Romantic and late-Romantic approaches might be adopted or adapted in a modern context to enrich our own playing.”
This new recording features a strikingly eloquent later version of Chopin”s famous Nocturne op.9 no.2 using the composer”s personal variants, an epic rendition of the dramatic C minor Nocturne inspired by Chopin”s own interpretative advice to his students, and a gripping performance of the great Polonaise-Fantasy. The CD is accompanied by Hamilton”s fascinating notes on the pieces and their performance history.

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Label: Prima Facie

Genre: Classical

Language: English

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/12/20

UPC: 7141148050434