Paixão é a nota mestra de Maria João Pires. É com drama e intensidade que abraça o tumulto central de Chopin, num contraste vívido com toda a serenidade envolvente. Cada nota é preciosa e a sua clareza contundente reforça o nosso sentido da estatura de Chopin, criando todo um mundo de possibilidades. Pires está certamente entre os mais eloquentes mestres musicais do nosso tempo.

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"Passion rather than insouciance is Pires's keynote. Here is an intensity and drama that scorn all complacent salon or drawing-room expectations. How she relishes Chopin's central storms, creating a vivid and spectacular yet undistrionic contrast with all surrounding serenity or 'embalmed darkness'. The con fuoco of Op. 15 No. 1 erupts in a fine fury and in the first Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1, Pire's sharp observance of Chopin's appassionato marking comes like a prophecy of the coda's sudden blaze. Chopin, she informs us in no uncertain terms, was no sentimentalist.

"More intimately, in Op 15 No. 3 (where the music's wavering sense of irresolution led to the sobriquet 'the Hamlet Nocture') Pires makes you hang on to every note in the coda's curious, echoing chimes, and in the dolcissimo conclusion to No. 8 there's an unforgettable sense of 'all passion spent', of gradually ebbing emotion. Pires with her burning clarity has reinforced our sense of Chopin's stature and created a new range of possibilities (showing us that there's life after Rubinstein).

"Naturally, Rubenstein's legendary cycles possess a graciousness, an ease and elegance reflecting, perhaps, a long-vanished belle epoque. Yet moving ahead, one has no hesitation in declaring Maria João Pires among the most eloquent master musicians of our time." - The Gramophone Magazine

Lista de Faixas:

Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1949)
Nocturnes Nos. 1 - 21

LP 1 Lado A
No.1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1: Larghetto 5:36
No. 2 In E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2: Andante 4:29
No. 3 In B Major, Op. 9 No. 3: Allegretto 6:39
No. 4 In F Major, Op. 15 No. 1: Andante Cantabile 4:21
No. 5 In F Sharp Major, Op. 15 No. 2: Larghetto 3:27
No. 6 In G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3: Lento 4:26

LP 1 Lado B
No. 7 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1: Larghetto 5:11
No. 8 In D Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2: Lento Sostenuto 6:37
No. 9 In B Major, Op 32 No. 1: Andante Sostenuto 4:54
No. 10 In A Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2: Lento 4:49
No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 37 No. 1: Andante Sostenuto 5:47

LP 2 Lado C
No. 12 In G Major, Op. 37 No. 2: Andantino 5:57
No. 13 In C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1: Lento 6:45
No. 14 In F Sharp Minor, Op. 48 No. 2: Andantino 7:18
No. 15 In F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1: Andante 4:40

LP 2 Lado D
No. 16 In E Flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2: Lento Sostenuto 4:52
No. 17 In B Major, Op. 62 No. 1: Andante 6:27
No. 18 In E Major, Op. 62 No. 2: Lento 5:58
No. 19 In E Minor, Op. Post. 72 No. 1: Andante 4:08
No. 20 In C Sharp Minor, Op. Post.: Lento Con Gran Espressione 4:02
No. 21 In C Minor, Op. Post. 2:48