CD contents:
Gaultier, Denis (1603-1672): Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher Froberger, Johann Jakob (1616-1667): Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Suite in d minor, BWV 1008 (1721) Couperin, Louis (c.1626-1661): Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher Dufaut, Francois (c.1604-c.1672): Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher Giuliani, Mauro (1781-1829): Variazioni su un Tema di Haendel in A major, op. 107
Complete list of tracks
Allemande Andromčde. Tombeau de M. Blancrocher
Tombeau de M. Blancheroche
Suite in d minor - 1. Prélude
Suite in d minor - 2. Allemande
Suite in d minor - 3. Courante
Suite in d minor - 4. Sarabande
Suite in d minor - 5. Menuet 1, 2
Suite in d minor - 6. Gigue
Tombeau de M. Blancrocher
Tombeau de M. Blancrocher (1625)
Variazioni su un Tema di Haendel
Within these very small frames, Chopin captures a universe of feeling and mood. There is a prelude for each major and minor key; many of them demand high virtuosity. James Friskin writes: "Perhaps no other collection of piano pieces contains within such a small compass so much that is at the same time musically and technically valuable". Schumann thought them "eagle's feathers, all strangely intermingled. But in every piece we find his own hand-Frederic Chopin wrote it. One recognizes him in his pauses, in his impetuous respiration. He is the boldest, the proudest, poet-soul of his time". Finck feels that "if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes. There are among Chopin's preludes a few which breathe the spirit of contentment and grace, or of religious grandeur, but most of them are outbreaks of the wildest anguish and heart-rending pathos. If tears could be heard, they would sound like these preludes".
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Music of the baroque period | Format: WAV / 44.1 kHz Digital Audio | 43:59 | 443 Mb | **
This recording's made at Panoramix studio, Milano (2005)