PRELUDES IMPROMPTUS

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Label
PHILIPS
Release Date
March 13, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CLAUDIO ARRAU
    • PERFORMER
      CHOPIN / ARRAU, CLAUDIO
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 13, 2007
    • UPC
      028947577683
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PHLB000852502.2
    • LABEL
      PHILIPS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    2. No. 2 in A Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    3. No. 3 in G Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    4. No. 4 in E Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    5. No. 5 in D Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    6. No. 6 in B Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    7. No. 7 in A Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    8. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    9. No. 9 in E Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    10. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    11. No. 11 in B Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    12. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    13. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    14. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    15. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, "Raindrop"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    16. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    17. No. 17 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    18. No. 18 in F Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    20. No. 20 in C Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    21. No. 21 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    22. No. 22 in G Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    23. No. 23 in F Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    24. No. 24 in D Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    25. Prelude No. 25 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    26. Prelude No. 26 in A-Flat Major, Op. posth.

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    27. Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    28. Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    29. Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau

    30. Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Claudio Arrau


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.