artist profile       numerical index    composer index    artist index    online store    download store    home    info pages  
24116
 
    
cd image

 

CHOPIN: FIRST AND LAST
PETER KATIN

This recording was originally issued on Athene in 1997 and proved extremely popular. Now re-issued at mid price, it remains a unique record of Chopin's very earliest keyboard works and those from the end of his life, played on a period square piano by Collard & Collard (c.1836) by one of Britain;s most respected and eminent pianists.

playing time: 74:58
direct sale price:  $12.99 
audio  sample: Mazurka in C, op.24 no.2 
PLAY
buy one

tracks:

Variations Brilliantes, op.12
Mazurka in G minor, op.24 no.1
Mazurka in C major, op.24 no.2
Mazurka in A flat major, op.24 no.3
Mazurka in B flat minor, op.24 no.4
Mazurka in F minor, op.68 no.4
Rondo in C minor, op.1
Nocturne in C sharp minor
Waltz in D flat major, op.64 no.1
Waltz in C sharp minor, op.64 no.2
Waltz in A flat major, op.64 no.3
Sonata in C minor, op.4 (3rd mvmt)
Polonaise in G minor, KK IIa, no.1
Polonaise in B flat major, KK IVa, no.1
Polonaise in A flat major, KK Iva, no.2
Berceuse, op.57

 review extracts: for full reviews click here
“A first class disc on all counts…" - Early Music Review
“ravishing… an ear-tickling recital” – Julian Haylock (BBC Music Magazine)
“the interest here lies in the piano... the recording is admirably truthful. Peter Katin… produces an attractive singing tone” – Penguin Guide to Compact Discs