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Chopin Etudes
Through channeling his intelligent virtuosity toward musical ends, Murray Perahia reveals the distinctive voice of each Chopin Étude, rather than imposing a "one style fits all" aesthetic upon the music. His easy mastery of the right-hand double-note challenges of Op. 10 No. 7 and Op. 25 Nos. 6 & 8 and the taxing rotary patterns of the famous "Black Key" and "Winter Wind" études enable him to clarify their significant left-hand component. Note, too, the "Octave" étude's long-lined ebb and flow, or a sharper, more aggressive C-sharp Minor, Op. 10 No. 4, than the one Perahia recorded in the early 1990s. But his unusually brisk take on the E-flat minor (Op. 10 No. 6) trivializes the music's aching harmonic tension, and the two C Minor Études (including the "Revolutionary") are a shade inhibited compared with the unbridled bravura of the versions by György Cziffra (Philips) and Juana Zayas (Music & Arts). These quibbles, however, should not prevent piano lovers from experiencing Perahia's well-considered and superbly engineered interpretations of the oft-recorded masterpieces. --Jed Distler
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Tracks| 1 | Etude No.1 In C Major | | 2 | Etude No.2 In A Minor | | 3 | Etude No.3 In E Major | | 4 | Etude No.4 In C-Sharp Minor | | 5 | Etude No.5 In G-Flat Major 'Black Keys' | | 6 | Etude No.6 In E-Flat Minor | | 7 | Etude No.7 In C Major | | 8 | Etude No.8 In F Major | | 9 | Etude No.9 In F Minor | | 10 | Etude No.10 In A-Flat Major | | 11 | Etude No.11 In E-Flat Major | | 12 | Etude No.12 In C Minor 'Revolutionary' | | 13 | Etude No.1 In A-Flat Major | | 14 | Etude No.2 In F Minor | | 15 | Etude No.3 In F Major | | 16 | Etude No.4 In A Minor | | 17 | Etude No.5 In E Minor | | 18 | Etude No.6 In G-Sharp Minor 'Thirds' | | 19 | Etude No.7 In C-Sharp Minor | | 20 | Etude No.8 In D-Flat Major 'Sixths' | | 21 | Etude No.9 In G-Flat Major | | 22 | Etude No.10 In B Minor 'Octaves' | | 23 | Etude No.11 In A Minor | | 24 | Etude No.12 In C Minor |
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