Nelson Freire - The SWR Recordings

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SWR
Release Date
February 14, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Manuel de Falla, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriab
    • PERFORMER
      Nelson Freire, SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 14, 2025
    • UPC
      747313916184
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SWR19161CD
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-Flat Major, Op. 22

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Ernest Bour

    2. I. Grave - Doppio movimento

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    3. II. Scherzo

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    4. III. Marche funèbre: Lento

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    5. IV. Finale: Presto

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    6. Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    7. I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Im Legendenton - Erstes tempo

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    8. II. Mässig

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    9. III. Langsam getragen

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    10. Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    11. No. 1 in B Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    12. No. 2 in G Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    13. No. 1. Pagodes

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    14. No. 2. La soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    15. No. 3. Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    16. Prometheus, Op. 60, "The Poem of Fire"

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Ensemble: Karlsruhe Chamber Choir, SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    17. I. En el Generalife (In the Generalife)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Ernest Bour

    18. II. Danza lejana (Distant Dance)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Ernest Bour

    19. III. En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba (In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba)

      Composer: Manuel de Falla

      Ensemble: SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Ernest Bour

    20. Momoprecoce fantasy

      Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos

      Ensemble: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

      Performer: Nelson Freire

      Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer


The present collection showcases studio and live recordings pianist Nelson Freire made for the SWR between 1968 and 1999. Though Freire was by his own account never really interested in a career and he even reduced considerably the number of live performances at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, he belongs to the most important pianists worldwide. A natural prodigy, Freire's style is characterised by elegance, charme and finnesse as well as deliberate avoidance of boasting.