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Chopin - Hommage à Chopin (Jonathan Plowright)

Recorded 2009 | Released 2010

All of these multifaceted offerings (jewels as well as gemstones) show Jonathan Plowright as beguiling in intimacy … as he is magisterial in virtuosity. Such quality will leave lesser pianists bemused, and as on Plowright's earlier superb Hyperion recordings he has been immaculately recorded. (Gramophone)

Personnel:

Jonathan Plowright piano

Recording:

30–31 July and 1 August 2009, Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Hyperion CDA67803

Track listing:

1. Balakirev: Impromptu On The Themes Of 2 Preludes By Chopin

2. Bendel: Hommage À Chopin, Op. 111/1

3. Grieg: Stimmungen, Op. 73 5 - Studie, 'Hommage À Chopin'

4. Busoni: 10 Variations On A Prelude Of Chopin In C Minor, BV213a

5. Nápravník: Notturno, Op. 48/1, 'La Réminiscence De Chopin'

6. Tchaikovsky: 28 Morceaux, Op. 72 15 - Un Poco Di Chopin

7. Honegger: Souvenir De Chopin

8. Berkeley: 3 Mazurkas, Op. 32/1 - 1 Allegro

9. Berkeley: 3 Mazurkas, Op. 32/1 - 2 Allegretto

10. Berkeley: 3 Mazurkas, Op. 32/1 - 3 Allegro

11. Villa-Lobos: Hommage À Chopin - 1. Nocturne

12. Villa-Lobos: Hommage À Chopin - 2. Ballade

13. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 01. Theme: Andantino

14. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 02. Var. 1: Tranquillo

15. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 03. Var. 2: Gracioso

16. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 04. Var. 3: Lento

17. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 05. Var. 4: Espressivo

18. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 06. Var. 5: Tempo di Mazurka

19. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 07. Var. 6: Recitativo

20. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 08. Var. 7: Allegro leggiero

21. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 09. Var. 8: Andante dolce e espressivo

22. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 10. Var. 9: Valse

23. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 11. Var. 10: Évocation

24. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 12. Var. 11: Lento dolce e legato

25. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 13. Var. 12: Galope y epílogo

26. Mompou: Variations Sur Un Thème De Chopin - 14. Lento

27. Godard: Lanterne Magique, Op. 66 - 2 Hommage À Chopin

28. Godowsky: Walzermasken - 07 Profil, 'Chopin'

29. Leschetizky: Contes De Jeunesse, Op. 46 - 9 Hommage à Chopin

Reviews:

BBC Music Magazine

Chopin didn’t just inaugurate an entirely new conception of writing for the piano; his strongly and seductively individual musical personality has haunted and captivated generations of piano composers since, giving rise to countless hommages, echoes and tributes.

Jonathan Plowright’s entertaining recital is entirely drawn from such pieces, ranging from famous names (Tchaikovsky’s Un poco di Chopin) to the deeply obscure – Franz Bendel, for instance – and it’s nice to have an opportunity to hear a delightful Hommage à Chopin by Theodor Leschetizky, revered as a teacher yet forgotten as a composer.

Villa-Lobos gives Chopin a Brazilian spin in his Nocturne and Ballade; Honegger’s Souvenir de Chopin was written for a film about the French Resistance; Lennox Berkeley’s three stylish Mazurkas sound more like Szymanowski than Chopin.

Most of these pieces are light, even frothy morceaux, and Plowright does not overstate the musical case for them beyond their obvious delights of refinement and dexterity. But he balances them with two superb sets of variations on Chopin themes: Busoni’s late Ten Variations on the C minor Prelude and Frederico Mompou’s substantial work on another Prelude, Op. 28 No. 7.

Mompou’s 11th variation is the sublimest track on the disc. It is in places like these that Plowright shows his real qualities as a virtuoso, especially his clarity of texture and instinct for phrasing. Warmly recommended.

The Daily Telegraph

This is an imaginative way of marking Chopin’s bicentenary without adding to the already amply stocked CD catalogue of his own works. Jonathan Plowright provides a fascinating conspectus of how Chopin’s example has sparked ideas in others, whether it amounts to sets of variations on Chopin originals (Busoni and Mompou), a species of elegant pastiche (Honegger and Franz Bendel) or a more general nod to Chopinesque style and spirit (Sir Lennox Berkeley’s Three Mazurkas, Grieg’s Studie and Villa-Lobos’s Nocturne).

Balakirev’s Impromptu on the Themes of Two Preludes by Chopin falls somewhere between these categories because, while the piece is based on the B major and E flat minor Preludes from Chopin’s Op 28, they are transmuted into a vivid tapestry matching tenderness with the transcendental, Lisztian brilliance that also distinguishes Balakirev’s Islamey. This disc is a delight.

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