Chopin | Piano Concerto No.1 · Fantaisie op.49 · Fantaisie-Impromptu op.66 · Berceuse

Maria João Pires · Chamber Orchestra of Europe · Emmanuel Krivine

Pires’s approach to the concerto is ardently lyrical, giving her spacious sense of rubato and radiant singing tone the greatest expressive freedom. If the piano’s first entry hardly grabs your attention, Pires’s wonderfully pliable phrasing and bell-like sonority soon win you over. She has a magical way with music of gentle expressiveness, and her bel canto in the central Romanze is ravishing; moreover, in passages of sublime simplicity she avoids preciousness by maintaining a resilience of line and a firmness and clarity to the tonal fabric. This is a thoroughly rewarding disc. Gramophon

MP3 HQ · 115 MB

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