Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 5

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
October 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHOPIN, FREDERIC
    • PERFORMER
      Louis Lortie
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2017
    • UPC
      095115194324
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10943
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    2. Mazurka No. 6 in A Minor, Op. 7, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    3. Mazurka No. 7 in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    4. Mazurka No. 9 in C Major, Op. 7, No. 5

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    5. Mazurka No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 7, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    7. Mazurka No. 22 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 33, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    8. Mazurka No. 23 in D Major, Op. 33, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    9. Mazurka No. 24 in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    11. Polonaise No. 2 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 26, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    12. Mazurka No. 36 in A Minor, Op. 59, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    13. Mazurka No. 37 in A-Flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    14. Mazurka No. 38 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    15. Polonaise No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 44

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie

    16. Allegro de concert, Op. 46

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Louis Lortie


Louis Lortie’s Chopin series is achieving landmark status, as confirmed by the increasingly enthusiastic reviews of progressive volumes. This fifth one sumptuously highlights the Polish influences in Chopin’s music, offering gems from among the mazurkas and polonaises. Relatively brief in duration and simple in structure, the mazurkas reveal other aspect of Chopin’s music: quirky melodies, strangely chromatic harmonies, oddly accented rhythms, irregular phrase lengths, and wildly contrasting keyboard textures. They represent a fascinating part of Chopin’s output, for audiences and pianists alike. The vigour of the polonaises featured here, including the first two to be published, confirms Chopin as a radical, yet idiomatic transformer of the genre. The Allegro de concert, which Chopin was said to have kept for his projected return to ‘a free Warsaw’, is another link to his beloved country.