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NOW ON LINE!The phenomonal young pianist
ROGER WRIGHT!
Listen to him in Chopin's B flat minor sonata here. And for a video excerpt of the, Chopin B flat minor sonata, please visit:
ROGER WRIGHT PLAYS CHOPIN

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NEW! The absolutely wonderful Spanish pianist,
JAVIER PERIANES,
Gold Medal winner of the prestigious 43rd International Piano Competition, 2001, at Jaen, Spain, plays Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy on streaming video! Also, listen to more of his recordings at his MP3.com site at www.mp3.com/perianes

CHOPIN BERCEUSE

MENDELSSOHN: VARIATIONS SERIEUSES

DEBUSSY: THE WIND ON THE PLAIN

DEBUSSY: THE GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR

DEBUSSY: MINSTRELS

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Of all the music written for the piano, Chopin's remains perhaps them most opulent as well as the most endearing. Availing himself of the music of his native Poland, and the strains of his Slavic roots, he reinvented bel canto singing in another form: as the provenance of the piano. The Chopin interpreter who fails to recognize this, and to cultivate an intimate knowledge of the voice, of baroque, classical and early romantic era opera, and of bel canto itself will never fathom the subtleties of affective inflection which Chopin invests so powerfully in every note. Here pianist JOHN BELL YOUNG offers works of this great composer. These performances were recorded in concert between 1970 and 1996. Please note that there are 2 performances of the B minor Sonata, from 1978 and 1979. While the one recorded in China has better sound, and was performed on a modern Steinway, the performance in Garden City is unusual in that is was performed on an 1886 Chickering concert grand. The sonority of that magnificent instrument is closer to the Pleyels and Erards favored by Chopin himself.
Performances by guest artists will be periodically posted here, among them ROGER WRIGHT, JAVIER PERIANES, MAURIZIO BAGLINI, DMITRI DEMIASHKIN, LUCA TRABUCCO, MIRON SMIDAK, VICTOR MERZHANOV, MARGARITA FYODOROVA, STEFAN STROISSNIG and MICHEL BLOCK.