Chopin Ballades & Impromptus - Gábor Farkas / Audio CD 2019 / Hungaroton

UPC 5991813282927 

HCD 32829

MADE IN HUNGARY

TOTAL TIME: 57:35

Hungarian Summary:

Chopin remekművei a Liszt-díjas zongoraművész, Farkas Gábor Hungarotonnál megjelenő második szólóalbumán.

A Hungaroton Chopin: Ballades & Impromptus című lemezén a zeneszerző összes balladája és impromptu-je szólal meg a Liszt- és Junior Prima Díjas zongoraművész, Farkas Gábor előadásában.

Farkas Gábor generációjának egyik legkiemelkedőbb zongoraművésze, a romantikus repertoár széles körben elismert interpretátora, több nemzetközi zongoraverseny győztese, és a világ nagy presztízsű zenei fesztiváljainak és koncerttermeinek állandó meghívottja. 2017 óta Steinway Artist, 2019-ben pedig elnyerte az Aoyama Music Awardot az év legjobb hangversenyéért.

English Summary:

The Hungaroton Chopin: Ballades & Impromptus album features all the ballads and impromptu pieces by the composer in the performance of Liszt and Junior Prima Awarded pianist Gábor Farkas.

Gábor Farkas is one of the most prominent pianists of the generation, a widely recognized interpreter of the romantic repertoire, the winner of several international piano competitions, and a constant invitee to the world's prestigious music festivals and concert halls. Since 2017, Steinway Artist and in 2019 won the Aoyama Music Award for the best concert of the year.

Tracklist:

1. Ballade in G minor, op. 23  9:09
2. Ballade in F major, op. 38  7:30
3. Ballade in A flat major, op. 47  7:43
4. Ballade in F minor, op. 52  11:41
5. Impromptu in A flat major, op. 29  3:59
6. Impromptu in F sharp minor, op. 36  5:56
7. Impromptu in G flat major, op. 51  6:09
8. Impromptu in C sharp minor (Fantaisie-Impromptu), op. 66  5:28

The piano-ballade is Chopins invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopins free improvisations, (improvisations: impromptu) were seemingly piano pieces without genre; individual pieces for performance, longer than the nocturnes but shorter than the ballades or scherzos. His compositions were all but pale shadows of his improvisations,'' wrote Georges Sand. The highly-regarded Hungarian-born pianist Gábor Farkas has, in the decade since winning the International Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar alongside the coveted Audience Prize in the same competition in 2009, come to be recognized internationally as a wholly exceptional artist.