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Summary: Chopin: Favorite Piano Works (London 2 CD)
Comment: Beautifully done 2 CD of Chopin works. I've played it every weekend since I got it, loving every track. It's well performed and recorded, and is an excellent collection for anyone interested in Chopin or his adopted homeland of Poland. And, of course, you can't often go wrong with the London Label.
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Summary: chopins Mazurkas
Comment: this is a wonderful collection of the mazurkas but Ashkenazy plays a lot of them too fast my music teacher played these with more pathos he seems like he cant get done fast enough with some of them some introductions should be slower with more feeling otherwise all the mazurkas i wanted are in this disc just wish i had got better artist like Claude Arrau
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Summary: REST FOR THIS WEARY SOUL
Comment: On vinyl I owned Ashkenazy's complete recordings of Chopin's piano works. Prior to purchasing this CD of what I call "highlights from Vladimir's Chopin Recordings", I had not replaced them in this format. What a joy it is to hear Vladimir Ashkenazy play these works again. I'm reminded of how much I loved his playing of Chopin on vinyl looking forward to each "new release" with great anticipation. Being, what is referred to, as a "senior citizen" , Chopin's music means ever so much to me offering rest for this weary soul. Vladimir Ashkenazy's performances on these discs are first rate and ones I truly love. As a previous reviewer pointed out, this compellation is a bargain-great price, great music, great sound and great performances by a master of Chopin's music.
If you love Chopin, as I do, buy this recording it will sooth your soul as only great music can.
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Summary: No Casio? No Problem.
Comment: Just another amazing recording of a composer who will forever be immune to cliche and by whom we will constanly define what is and is not.
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Summary: Would be better if...
Comment: I'm all for the preservation of the treasures of history, but c'mon, let's hip it up a little. Distortion isn't really a bad thing, you know. How bad ass would it be to hear these gems with one slight adaptation: forget piano, that's so 1830. Get with the times and pony up a few bills for a new-fangled invention called a keyboard. It's a really keen contraption with which you can actually play a variety of music from different time periods. Maybe you've heard of a little revolution called techno. Tell me that it's not an artform to mix pre-recorded samples with subtle manipulation of the different tracks. Not to mention the complex composition of original pieces. Imagine, if you will, composing a full spectrum of melodies and beats through the original creation of a bassline and then adding, piece by piece, different rearrangements of various tones and miscellaneous noises. The parallels between "classical" and techno are innumberable. If that's not sub-genius, I don't know what is.
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