Title: Chopin: Nocturnes
Artist: Alain Planes
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5400863053888
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021-08-20
Number of Discs: 1

His Debussy and Chopin recordings for harmonia mundi already offer ample evidence that Alain Plans is highly adept at selecting a period instrument best suited for the repertoire. For this complete recording of the Chopin Nocturnes, he has chosen a superb 1836 Pleyel – dating from the same decade during which many of these masterpieces saw the light of day. With this instrument’s unique color palette at his fingertips, our poet of the keyboard deftly recreates the delicate magic of these immortal pages in which the composer, fascinated by the art of bel canto, developed a new approach to making the piano sing.

Tracks:
1.1 Chopin: Nocturne No.1 in B-Flat minor, Op.9 No.1
1.2 Chopin: Nocturne No.2 in E-Flat Major, Op.9 No.2
1.3 Chopin: Nocturne No.3 in B Major, Op.9 No.3
1.4 Chopin: Nocturne No.4 in F Major, Op.15 No.1
1.5 Chopin: Nocturne No.5 in F-Sharp Major, Op.15 No.2
1.6 Chopin: Nocturne No.6 in G minor, Op.15 No.3
1.7 Chopin: Nocturne No.15 in F minor, Op.55 No.1
1.8 Chopin: Nocturne No.16 in E-Flat Major, Op.55 No.2
1.9 Chopin: Nocturne No.7 in C-Sharp minor, Op.27 No.1
1.10 Chopin: Nocturne No.8 in D-Flat Major, Op.27 No.2
1.11 Chopin: Nocturne No.9 in B Major, Op.32 No.1
1.12 Chopin: Nocturne No.10 in A-Flat Major, Op.32 No.2
1.13 Chopin: Nocturne No.11 in G minor, Op.37 No.1
1.14 Chopin: Nocturne No.12 in G Major, Op.37 No.2
1.15 Chopin: Nocturne No.17 in B Major, Op.62 No.1
1.16 Chopin: Nocturne No.18 in E Major, Op.62 No.2
1.17 Chopin: Nocturne No.13 in C minor, Op.48 No.1
1.18 Chopin: Nocturne No.14 in F-Sharp minor, Op.48 No.2
1.19 Chopin: Nocturne No. 21 in C minor, Op. Posth
1.20 Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. Posth. 72 No. 1
1.21 Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp minor, Op. Posth