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PRELUDES IMPROMPTUS

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Details

Composer
CLAUDIO ARRAU
Artist
CHOPIN / ARRAU, CLAUDIO
Format
CD
Label
PHILIPS
Released
Mar 13, 2007
Catalog #
PHLB000852502.2
UPC
028947577683

About

Chopin: Preludes; Impromptus by Composer: Frdric Chopin (1810 1849) Artist: Arrau, Claudio [Piano] When this reissue of Claudio Arrau's 1973 recording of Chopin's preludes was released by Philips, it was the third reissue of that particular recording released that year. PentaTone, the astoundingly clean Dutch label, had released a disc coupling Arrau's 1973 recording of Chopin's preludes with his 1974 recording of Schumann's Papillons, and Philips, the great Dutch label itself, had released an eight-disc set of all Arrau's postwar Chopin recording for them. Of course, Arrau's preludes are uniformly ineffably beautiful, perhaps a little slow sometimes, but with such effortless technique, such tonal opulence, and such poetic soulfulness that it only serves to grant the listener more time to contemplate the heights and depths. The sound from all three issues presents different aspects of recorded perfection: the PentaTone may be somewhat clearer, but all three incarnate in their zillions of zeros and ones in breathtakingly real representations of a real piano in a real room in real time.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in C Major 00:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    00:44
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  2. 2 No. 2 in A Minor 01:51
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in A Minor
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  3. 3 No. 3 in G Major 01:05
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in G Major
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  4. 4 No. 4 in E Minor 02:01
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in E Minor
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  5. 5 No. 5 in D Major 00:41
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5 in D Major
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  6. 6 No. 6 in B Minor 02:20
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6 in B Minor
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  7. 7 No. 7 in A Major 00:54
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7 in A Major
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  8. 8 No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor 01:59
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  9. 9 No. 9 in E Major 01:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9 in E Major
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  10. 10 No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor 00:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    00:35
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  11. 11 No. 11 in B Major 00:41
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11 in B Major
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  12. 12 No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor 01:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  13. 13 No. 13 in F-Sharp Major 03:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13 in F-Sharp Major
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  14. 14 No. 14 in E-Flat Minor 00:49
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  15. 15 No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop" 05:33
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop"
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  16. 16 No. 16 in B-Flat Minor 01:11
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16 in B-Flat Minor
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  17. 17 No. 17 in A-Flat Major 03:27
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  18. 18 No. 18 in F Minor 01:00
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18 in F Minor
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  19. 19 No. 19 in E-Flat Major 01:22
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  20. 20 No. 20 in C Minor 01:45
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 20 in C Minor
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  21. 21 No. 21 in B-Flat Major 02:10
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 21 in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  22. 22 No. 22 in G Minor 00:54
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 22 in G Minor
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  23. 23 No. 23 in F Major 01:02
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 23 in F Major
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  24. 24 No. 24 in D Minor 02:24
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 24 in D Minor
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  25. 25 Prelude No. 25 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45 05:26
    Track
    25
    Title
    Prelude No. 25 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  26. 26 Prelude No. 26 in A-Flat Major, Op. posth. 00:57
    Track
    26
    Title
    Prelude No. 26 in A-Flat Major, Op. posth.
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  27. 27 Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29 04:42
    Track
    27
    Title
    Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  28. 28 Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36 06:05
    Track
    28
    Title
    Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  29. 29 Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51 06:22
    Track
    29
    Title
    Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau
  30. 30 Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 05:46
    Track
    30
    Title
    Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Claudio Arrau