BaL 12.05.12 Chopin's Mazurkas

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

0930 Building a Library: David Owen-Norris with a personal recommendation from recordings of Chopin's Mazurkas

Available recordings of the complete set of 51:

Vladimir Ashkenazy
Idil Biret
Samson François
Cor de Groot
Adam Harasiewicz
Jean-Marc Luisada
Evgeni Koriolov
Nikita Magaloff
Garrick Ohlsson
Andrew Rangell
Arthur Rubinstein
Tatiana Shebanova
Ronald Smith
Alex Szilasi

[Don Petter]

I have the Rubinstein, and Nina Milkina's 1970 Wigmore Hall recording on Unterschrift Classics. Is this still available, I wonder?

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/Nov01/Chopin_Mazurkas.htm

[silvestrione]

Will be a bit silly if it is just complete sets, I feel. How can you not consider Ignaz Friedman and Horowitz, when doing Chopin's mazurkas?
David Owen-Norris...hmm...don't think he'll chose Rubinstein or Ashkenazy somehow. Tends to chose less well-known recent performers.

[verismissimo]

I find them a bit boring laid end to end. Much prefer mixed Chopin recitals on record, which, if I remember rightly, was the way Ashkenazy approached the business.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I find them a bit boring laid end to end. Much prefer mixed Chopin recitals on record, which, if I remember rightly, was the way Ashkenazy approached the business.

I agree, though if you wnat to collect a composer's complete works, this is a simpler way to do it.

[Pianorak]

No Fou Ts'ong listed - hmm, he's still my number one for the Mazurkas.

[vinteuil]

In the exemplary 'Real Chopin' set on NIFC [Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina] the mazurkas are divvied up between -

Ewa Poblocka
Raul Koczalski
Dina Yoffe
Fou Ts'ong
Janusz Oleniczak
Tatiana Shebanova
Ka Ling Colleen Lee
Kevin Kenner

[vinteuil]

The big brilliant 30 CD box of Chopin has Cor de Groot on an 1847 Pleyel for the Mazurkas.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The big brilliant 30 CD box of Chopin has Cor de Groot on an 1847 Pleyel for the Mazurkas.

Thanks. I've added this to the list

[Barbirollians]

Rubinstein

[LeMartinPecheur]

Rubinstein

Which - RCA LP stereo or HMV 78 mono? I have the latter in CD transfers (oops, 2 copies - HMV and Naxos - how did I do that?) and am in no rush to change, particularly when I have plenty of other performances scattered around in mixed recitals.

[silvestrione]

Which - RCA LP stereo or HMV 78 mono? I have the latter in CD transfers (oops, 2 copies - HMV and Naxos - how did I do that?) and am in no rush to change, particularly when I have plenty of other performances scattered around in mixed recitals.

Are there three complete sets from Rubinstein? There certainly are with much of his main Chopin repertoire.

Anyone know which versions are in the recent budget box (Regis or Brilliant, I can't remember which,but saw in a record shop last week)?

[vinteuil]

Are there three complete sets from Rubinstein?

I think there are recordings from the 1930s, the 1950s, and the 1960s, on (respectively) vols 6, 27, and 50 of the RCA Rubinstein edition.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anyone know which versions are in the recent budget box (Regis or Brilliant, I can't remember which,but saw in a record shop last week)?

http://www.selections.com/AL067/chopin-piano-works-6cds/

[BBMmk2]

I have Ashkenazy and Argerich.