Below are the links to servers that store chopin music recordings under mp3 format and chopin music sheets or scores under pdf format. Ohlsson gives an authoritative interpretation of the scherzi that is very different from other great pianists. Garrick ohlsson piano page 3 of 9 presto classical. Garrick ohlsson sets here all his technical skills and musical insight in order to get the very essence of the true mood in an impressive traversal of the whole mazurkas by chopin. Chopin played his mazurkas with a rubato so free that some took it to be erratic timing. Mazurkas, a classical music album by garrick ohlsson. My total immersion in the chopin project was enhanced by a concurrent series of recitals of the complete solo works in the us and several. This monumental recording project first came about when the american record company arabesque approached me with an irresistible offer to record the complete works of chopin. The artist played this recital on an 1849 erard piano. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of chopin s birth, hyperion has excerpted some of the finest performances from garrick ohlsson s complete chopin project, originally recorded for the arabesque label and reissued on hyperion as a 16cd boxed set. Meyerbeer called on chopin one day while he was playing. For this recording, garrick ohlsson selected genres characteristic of chopin. Nikolai demidenko, garrick ohlsson, nikita magaloff, vladimir ashkenazy and roger woodward. Garrick ohlsson 1970 viii chopin piano competition youtube.
Released 14 september 1999 on arabesque catalog no. But chopin s mazurkas are quite different in that a popular folk tradition, with the use of original thematic material, is developed and shaped. Chopin, garrick ohlsson ewa podles leila josefowicz. The gigantic personality revealed in or rubinsteins 19389 version. Chopin s ballades have been described as tone poems for the piano typically romantic, melodic, and epic. Complete music recordings, music sheets, analyses chopin.
After listening to this cd a few times, my conclusion is that ohlsson s interpretation is probably the way chopin played them, deeply thoughtful, superbly nuanced, unhurried and poetical. Order from your preferred classical music cd store arkivmusic. I accepted with enthusiasm and an awareness of the magnitude of the task. Digital booklet pdf frederic chopin 18101849 the complete mazurkas, vol.