JAN LISIECKI – Chopin: Complete Nocturnes [2LP]

Decca (UMO) / Classics / Deutsche Grammophon

£27.54

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: 4861984
Barcode: 0028948619849
Release Date: 10 Feb 2022
Genre: Classical

Canadian pianist extraordinaire Jan Lisiecki has chosen to return to the music of Frédéric Chopin. Following on from Works for Piano & Orchestra (2017) and Chopin: Études (2013), Chopin: Complete Nocturnes features profoundly personal interpretations of some of the most beautiful and best-loved pieces ever written for solo piano. Lisiecki is perhaps most celebrated for his masterfully sensitive and refined interpretative approach. His newest release – recorded last October at Berlin’s historic Meistersaal – not only captures the spirit of Chopin’s pianism, but also represents the time and circumstances in which it was made, as the pianist himself explains: “I’m the first to question why we should record something that has been recorded many times before. But music only lives through performance and is different every time we hear it, even when it’s a recording. I think there was something for me to say with this album. It reflects on the last year and my thoughts on that as well as on the escape and understanding that music gives us.”

TRACKLIST
LP1
NOCTURNE in B flat minor op. 9/1. Larghetto
NOCTURNE in E flat major op. 9/2. Andante
NOCTURNE in B major op. 9/3. Allegretto
NOCTURNE in F major op. 15/1. Andante cantabile
NOCTURNE in F sharp major op. 15/2. Larghetto
6. NOCTURNE in G minor op. 15/3. Lento
Side B
NOCTURNE in C sharp minor op. 27/1. Larghetto
NOCTURNE in D flat major op. 27/2. Lento sostenuto
NOCTURNE in B major op. 32/1. Andante sostenuto
NOCTURNE in A f lat major op. 32/2. Lento
NOCTURNE in G minor op. 37/1. Andante sostenuto
LP2
Side A
NOCTURNE in G major op. 37/2. Andantino
NOCTURNE in C minor op. 48/1. Lento
NOCTURNE in F sharp minor op. 48/2. Andantino
NOCTURNE in F minor op. 55/1. Andante
NOCTURNE in E flat major op. 55/2. Lento sostenuto
Side B
NOCTURNE in B major op. 62/1. Andante
NOCTURNE in E major op. 62/2. Lento
NOCTURNE in E minor op. post. 72/1. Andante
NOCTURNE in C minor KK IVb/8. Andante sostenuto
NOCTURNE in C sharp minor KK IVa/16 Lento con gran espressione