Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin And Debussy

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Label
Vox
Release Date
January 1, 1993
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DEBUSSY CHOPIN
    • PERFORMER
      Ivan Moravec
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 1993
    • UPC
      047163510328
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDX-5103
    • LABEL
      Vox
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the water)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    2. No. 2. Hommage a Rameau

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    3. No. 3. Mouvement

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    4. No. 1. Cloches a travers les feuillies (Bells through the leaves)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    5. No. 2. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut (And the moon descends on the ruins of the Temple)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    6. No. 3. Poissons d'or (Goldfish)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    7. Preludes, Book 1: No. 6. Des pas sur la neige

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    8. No. 1. Pagodes

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    9. No. 2. La soiree dans Grenade

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    10. No. 3. Jardins sous la pluie

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    11. Mazurka No. 40 in F Minor, Op. 63, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    12. Mazurka No. 47 in A Minor, Op. 68, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    13. Mazurka No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 7, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    14. Mazurka No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    15. Mazurka No. 25 in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    16. Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2, "Grande Valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    17. Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    18. Waltz No. 14 in E Minor, Op. posth.

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    19. Polonaise No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 26, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    20. Polonaise No. 7 in A-Flat Major, Op. 61, "Polonaise-Fantaisie"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec



Recorded in 1982/83, Ivan Moravec's Debussy and Chopin recitals for Vox count among the most attractively engineered piano recordings from the early days of digital. Max Wilcox's engineering does full justice to Moravec's luminescent tone and ultra-discreet mastery of the sustain pedal. The runs and arpeggios in Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau, Mouvement, and Poissons d'or flow so naturally and unmechanically that you don't immediately notice how precise and even they really are. The hushed, sustained atmosphere of Debussy's Des pas sur la neige and Estampes' exotic overtones come alive through Moravec's acute sense of timing and tonal application.


Although his less-heroic, more inward path through Chopin's C-sharp minor Polonaise and Polonaise-Fantasie contrasts with Artur Rubinstein's firmer swagger, the approach proves equally valid. And Moravec coaxes half tints and inner voices from his selected Mazurkas and Waltzes without unduly underlining them (the trio of the C-sharp minor Waltz, for instance). Even if you already possess Michelangeli's Debussy Images, Richter's Estampes, or Rubinstein's Chopin, Moravec deserves equal space in your collection. A bargain not to be missed. [2/26/2002]
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com