Pavel Kolesnikov – Chopin: Mazurkas (2016) [Hyperion FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Frederic Chopin – Mazurkas – Pavel Kolesnikov (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: hyperion-records.co.uk | Booklet, Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Recorded: August 2015, Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom

There are in all fifty-eight mazurkas by Chopin. Pavel Kolesnikov, making a welcome second recording for Hyperion, here performs a selection of twenty-four, from the earliest examples dating from his teenage years, through to the rich maturity of Op 59 No 2 from 1845.

Four years on since he won Canada’s Honens International Piano Competition, the world’s biggest piano prize, Pavel Kolesnikov continues to show the quiet intensity that distinguishes his playing from that of many competition contestants. Now onto his second recording for Hyperion—his first, featuring Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons flowed with similar naturalness—he displays complete poetic freedom of a sort ideal for approaching Chopin’s mazurkas. By opening this recital with Op 50 No 5, in A flat, he makes a perhaps deliberately unobtrusive statement, entering into the music’s spirit with crisp rhythms that are never overly emphatic. It’s tempting to say that he plays this quintessential Polish music with a flexibility rare among Russians but then Kolesnikov is the antithesis of the Russian bear school of pianism.
He has his own thoughts about their order, too, eschewing opus-number groupings in favour of a selection (almost half the published mazurkas) that makes its own satisfying tonal sense. The wonderful Op 17, 24 and 50 sets are heard complete, if scattered around, and even out of chronological order the place of these pieces within Chopin’s output is immediately evident. Kolesnikov can be shy or fiery in tracing the folk-dance roots of this music; more unusually, he also finds its sophistication. A refreshing way of letting us hear these well-known miniature masterpieces, this is a notable addition to the huge Chopin discography. -John Allison, BBC Music Magazine

Tracklist:
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
1 Mazurka in A flat major Op 50 No 2[3’07]
2 Mazurka in C major Op 56 No 2[1’33]
3 Mazurka in E minor Op 17 No 2[2’03]
4 Mazurka in A flat major Op 17 No 3[3’26]
5 Mazurka in F sharp minor Op 59 No 3[3’17]
6 Mazurka in G sharp minor Op 33 No 1[1’51]
7 Mazurka in A minor Op 68 No 2[3’04]
8 Mazurka in G minor Op 24 No 1[2’54]
9 Mazurka in A minor Op 17 No 4[4’50]
10 Mazurka in B flat minor Op 24 No 4[4’12]
11 Mazurka in B flat major KKIIa/3[1’29]
12 Mazurka in B flat major Op 17 No 1[2’04]
13 Mazurka in C major Op 33 No 3[1’14]
14 Mazurka in A flat major Op 24 No 3[2’49]
15 Mazurka in E minor Op 41 No 1[2’05]
16 Mazurka in B minor Op 30 No 2[1’19]
17 Mazurka in C sharp minor Op 50 No 3[5’21]
18 Mazurka in C major Op 24 No 2[2’01]
19 Mazurka in A minor KKIIb/5[3’27]
20 Mazurka in F sharp minor Op 6 No 1[2’29]
21 Mazurka in A minor KKIIb/4[3’09]
22 Mazurka in G major Op 50 No 1[2’04]
23 Mazurka in C minor Op 56 No 3[7’03]
24 Mazurka in A flat major Op 59 No 2[2’16]

Personnel:
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

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