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This release, issued to mark the 75th birthday of the great pianist Nelson Freire in 2019, is hardly a typical album of encores. A good deal of it is devoted to a single composer, Edvard Grieg. Other composers are represented by multiple works, and there are substantial pieces like the Rachmaninov Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10, that would not fill the role of encore well. You might take the word "encore" in another way, though: to mean things reprised. Many of these pieces are ones Freire knows well, has played many times, and has explored at a truly breathtaking level of detail. The Grieg Lyric Pieces are not virtuoso works, and indeed are often played by amateurs, but you haven't heard them played like Freire plays them, with each one a little study in phrasing and register. You could sample almost anywhere here, but try the first of the Shostakovich Fantastic Dances, Op. 5, which has an entrancing subtlety from the very first notes. Freire, a famed virtuoso, mostly avoids showpieces here, but, as if to say he hasn't lost the ability, he does drop some in. The album is, then, an encore to Freire's remarkable career, which isn't over yet.
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Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30 (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Giovanni Sgambati, Arranger, Work Arranger - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Henry Purcell, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Aspirations, Op. 39 (Zygmunt Stojowski)
Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Zygmunt Stojowski, Composer - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Miscellanea, Op. 16 (Ignacy Jan Paderewski)
Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Composer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
6 Lieder, Op. 17, TrV 149 (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leopold Godowsky, Arranger, Work Arranger - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Author - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book I, Op. 12 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book II, Op. 38 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book III, Op. 43 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book IV, Op. 47 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book V, Op. 54 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book VIII, Op. 65 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Lyric Pieces Book IX, Op. 68 (Edvard Grieg)
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Anton Rubinstein, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
2 Poèmes, Op. 32 (Alexander Scriabin)
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
13 Préludes, Op. 32 (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
3 Fantastic Dances, Op. 5 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Goyescas - Suite (Enrique Granados)
Enrique Granados, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Scènes d’enfants (Federico Mompou)
Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Federico Mompou, Composer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
España, Op. 165 (Isaac Albéniz)
Isaac Albeniz, Composer - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leopold Godowsky, Arranger, Work Arranger - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Isaac Albeniz, Composer - Deodat de Severac, Contributor, Work Editor - Nelson Freire, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Stokes, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dominic Fyfe, Producer
℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
This release, issued to mark the 75th birthday of the great pianist Nelson Freire in 2019, is hardly a typical album of encores. A good deal of it is devoted to a single composer, Edvard Grieg. Other composers are represented by multiple works, and there are substantial pieces like the Rachmaninov Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10, that would not fill the role of encore well. You might take the word "encore" in another way, though: to mean things reprised. Many of these pieces are ones Freire knows well, has played many times, and has explored at a truly breathtaking level of detail. The Grieg Lyric Pieces are not virtuoso works, and indeed are often played by amateurs, but you haven't heard them played like Freire plays them, with each one a little study in phrasing and register. You could sample almost anywhere here, but try the first of the Shostakovich Fantastic Dances, Op. 5, which has an entrancing subtlety from the very first notes. Freire, a famed virtuoso, mostly avoids showpieces here, but, as if to say he hasn't lost the ability, he does drop some in. The album is, then, an encore to Freire's remarkable career, which isn't over yet.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 30 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:41
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Nelson Freire
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2019 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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