Chopin - 4 Ballades / Piano Works

• Artist : Evgeny Kissin
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0090266325924
• Label : Sony Music
• Manufacturer : Sony Music
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Sony Music
• Release Date : 1999-05-08
• SKU : S090266325924
• Studio : Sony Music
• UPC : 009026632592

The Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin here plays Chopin's profounder. and less well-known works for piano: the four Ballades; the. Scherzo No. 4; the Berceuse; and the Barcarolle.. Kissin has a brittle, exciting touch which is never afraid to be robust. but is soft and shimmering at its most beautiful. The Ballades are Chopin's autobiography. They are substantial works each containing a pair of his most beautiful and naturally flowing themes, sometimes announced with outrageous grade two simplicity, at others times wrapped up in the most contorted swathes of passionate piano writing that one could give one's whole life to practising and still never master Nothing is more restful than the Berceuse, which rocks like a sophisticated nursery rhyme for five pages over an unchanging bass The Barcarolle laps at the keyboard like the Rialto at Venice Under Kissin's fingers, one of the loveliest musical depictions of water in the literature has a silver, steel-edged glint. The Scherzo is not often performed because it is so difficult, but Kissin plays its supersonic chord changes with supreme control. What others only plod at is for him light hearted and almost throwaway. --Rick Jones

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Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: "Ballade No. 1, Op. 23"
  • 2: "Ballade No. 2, Op. 38"
  • 3: "Ballade No. 3, Op. 47"
  • 4: "Ballade No. 4, Op. 52"
  • 5: "Berceuse, Op. 57"
  • 6: "Barcarolle, Op. 60"
  • 7: "Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54"

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