Danny Eachus

A superb but not particularly well-known recording of the Chopin etudes. Fialkowska is the sort of pianist you don’t really hear about, but quietly goes about getting rave reviews and collecting the occasional award. Her playing is relentlessly confident and texturally creative, but without any hint of narcissism. There is nothing at all etude-like about […]

https://gryaznoff.com/en Part 2 of the piano recital by Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Art of Fugue by Bach & 24 Etudes by Chopin). Malyi Hall of the Moscow conservatory, March 18, 2012. Recorded live. Part 1 (Art of Fugue by Bach) is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7M9IE… Encores: Bach-Prelude 1 from WTC(book 1) Chopin-“Minute Waltz”, op. 64, 1 Chopin-Prelude 7 op. […]

Op.10 No.1 00:00 Op.10 No.2 02:10 Op.10 No.3 03:33 Op.10 No.4 08:10 Op.10 No.5 10:11 Op.10 No.6 11:54 Op.10 No.7 15:42 Op.10 No.9 17:14 Op.10 No.12 19:33 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Will upload missing Etude videos from this set (when I find them) meanwhile, here is audio with score: […]

Sometimes you’re listening to a recording, and thinking it’s pretty good, and then something happens which makes you go, “Woah, wait a minute — what was *that*?” Blechacz’s recording of the Chopin Op.28 preludes (taken from a 2007 live concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), is absolutely full of such moments of elegance and subtlety. […]

Live recording from 1980 Vladimir Ashkenazy – piano Frédéric Chopin – 24 Preludes Opus 28 0:20 No. 1 1:03 No. 2 3:07 No. 3 4:06 No. 4 6:02 No. 5 6:37 No. 6 8:36 No. 7 9:27 No. 8 11:43 No. 9 12:48 No. 10 13:17 No. 11 13:59 No. 12 15:11 No. 13 18:33 […]