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Title: Chopin Intime
Artist: Justin Taylor
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3701624511329
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-05-09
Number of Discs: 1

Justin Taylor has a passion for early keyboards and is always keen to match the works he tackles with the most appropriate historical instruments. Justin has always been fascinated by the music of Frederic Chopin, whose intimate musical world is presented here. We know that Chopin composed some of his preludes during his stay with George Sand in Mallorca, where he used a very special instrument. This was a Pleyel pianino - a small upright piano of six and a half octaves that was only made between 1835 and 1842 - with a beautiful natural resonance and a velvety timbre. Taylor has recorded the preludes composed on this Pleyel pianino along with a selection of etudes, nocturnes and mazurkas, all of which suit the sound of the instrument perfectly. A moving transcription of Bellini's Casta diva, an aria that Chopin much admired, is also included here.

Tracks:
1.1 Nocturne no. 20 en do dièse mineur, Op. posthume P 1 no. 16
1.2 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~15. En ré bémol majeur - Sostenuto
1.3 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~16. En si bémol mineur - Presto con fuoco
1.4 Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 1 en si bémol mineur
1.5 Mazurka, Op. 30, no. 2 en si mineur
1.6 Wiosna
1.7 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~5. En ré majeur - Allegro molto
1.8 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~6. En si mineur - Lento assai
1.9 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~13. En fa dièse majeur - Lento
1.10 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~14. En mi bémol mineur - Allegro
1.11 Nocturne, Op. 9, no. 2 en mi bémol majeur
1.12 Étude, Op. 25, no. 1 en la bémol majeur - Allegro sostenuto
1.13 Mazurka, Op. 17, no. 4 en la mineur
1.14 Norma~Casta diva
1.15 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~23. En fa majeur - Moderato
1.16 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~18. En fa mineur - Allegro molto
1.17 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~20. En do mineur - Largo
1.18 Nocturne en do mineur, Op. posthume P 2 no. 8
1.19 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~1. En do majeur - Agitato
1.20 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~2. En la mineur - Lento
1.21 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~3. En sol majeur - Vivace
1.22 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~4. En mi mineur - Largo
1.23 Nocturne posthume, Op. 72 en mi mineur
1.24 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~7. En la majeur - Andantino
1.25 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~8. En fa dièse mineur - Molto agitato
1.26 Contredanse en sol bémol majeur, B.17
1.27 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~9. En mi majeur - Largo
1.28 Vingt-Quatre Préludes, Op. 28~10. En do dièse mineur - Allegro molto
1.29 Étude, Op. 25, no. 7 en do dièse mineur - Lento