Angela Hewitt – Chopin: Complete Nocturnes & Impromptus (2004/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Angela Hewitt – Chopin: Complete Nocturnes & Impromptus (2004/2024)
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“In a catalogue boasting many distinguished Chopin Nocturne cycles, Angela Hewitt’s commands attention.”
– BBC Music Magazine

Angela Hewitt takes a well-deserved break from her mammoth Bach and Couperin surveys to present us with this enthralling set of Chopin’s most distinguished piano pieces—the complete Nocturnes and Impromptus.

Between 1830 and 1846 Chopin wrote eighteen Nocturnes that were published more or less in the order in which they were written. By spanning almost his entire creative life, they give us a marvellous opportunity to see not only how his early works were already totally inspired and original, but also how his style and emotional maturity developed through the years.

Angela Hewitt has applied the same intense study to Chopin’s Nocturnes and Impromptus as she does to any composer’s keyboard works. The result is a set of pieces lovingly played and appreciated, with personally felt emotion. The most outwardly emotional displays, as in the Nocturnes, Op. 15, are never wildly loud and always return to an introverted state afterward. In the Nocturnes she uses little touches of rubato so frequently as to almost stretch the melodies out of shape, as in Op. 9/1, but she plays many of the Nocturnes a tick faster than other pianists so that they stand up to that kind of manipulation better, and she never slows down to fit in ornaments. Her ornaments always fit right into the melody, both in her timing and her phrasing, and are feathery soft. She applies that same softness to the outer sections of the Nocturnes, Op. 27, for a lustrous blend of color. The Impromptus are a little more outgoing, but still heartfelt and uncomplicated. The “Fantasy-Impromptu” opening is impressively fast and smooth, with a good anchoring bass line. The middle section, like the Nocturnes, has those tiny, frequent rubatos to give it particular detail. Hewitt’s readings are highly personalized, yet wholly musical.

Tracklist:
1-1. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, KK IVa/16 (03:53)
1-2. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor, KK IVb/8 (02:46)
1-3. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1 (05:59)
1-4. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 (04:34)
1-5. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9 No. 3 (06:20)
1-6. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15 No. 1 (04:47)
1-7. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15 No. 2 (03:32)
1-8. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3 (03:34)
1-9. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1 (05:41)
1-10. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (06:05)
1-11. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32 No. 1 (04:48)
1-12. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 37 No. 1 (05:21)
1-13. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2 (06:18)
1-14. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 12 in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2 (04:57)
2-15. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (07:16)
2-16. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48 No. 2 (06:56)
2-17. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (04:38)
2-18. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2 (04:57)
2-19. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62 No. 1 (07:29)
2-20. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62 No. 2 (06:09)
2-21. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (04:54)
2-22. Angela Hewitt – Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29 (04:19)
2-23. Angela Hewitt – Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36 (06:20)
2-24. Angela Hewitt – Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51 (05:48)
2-25. Angela Hewitt – Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 (05:22)

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