ZPDR – A (Mis)Take on Chopin’s Preludes (2022) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, are a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839.Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, partly at Valldemossa, Mallorca, where he spent the winter of 1838–39 and where he had fled with George Sand and her children to escape the damp Paris weather. In Majorca, Chopin had a copy of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, and as in each of Bach’s two sets of preludes and fugues, his Op. 28 set comprises a complete cycle of the major and minor keys, albeit with a different ordering.

Whereas the term “prelude” had hitherto been used to describe an introductory piece, Chopin’s pieces stand as self-contained units, each conveying a specific idea or emotion. He thus imparted new meaning to a genre title that at the time was often associated with improvisatory “preluding”. In publishing the 24 preludes together as a single opus, comprising miniatures that could either be used to introduce other music or as self-standing works, Chopin challenged contemporary attitudes regarding the worth of small musical forms.

Chopin’s chosen key sequence is a circle of fifths, with each major key being followed by its relative minor, and so on (i.e. C major, A minor, G major, E minor, etc.). Since this sequence of related keys is much closer to common harmonic practice, it is thought that Chopin might have conceived the cycle as a single performance entity for continuous recital. An opposing view is that the set was never intended for continuous performance, and that the individual preludes were indeed conceived as possible introductions for other works.

The brevity and apparent lack of formal structure in the Op. 28 set caused some consternation among critics at the time of their publication.

Among more recent assessments, musicologist Henry Finck said that “if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin’s Preludes.” Biographer Jeremy Nicholas writes that “[e]ven on their own, the 24 Preludes would have ensured Chopin’s claim to immortality.”

Tracklist:

1-1. ZPDR – Feverish Anticipation of Loved Ones (Prelude Nº 1) (01:18)
1-2. ZPDR – Painful Meditation The Distant Deserted Sea (Prelude Nº 2) (02:28)
1-3. ZPDR – The Singing of the Stream (Prelude Nº 3) (03:50)
1-4. ZPDR – Above a Grave (Prelude Nº 4) (03:23)
1-5. ZPDR – Tree Full of Songs (Prelude Nº 5) (01:57)
1-6. ZPDR – Homesickness (Prelude Nº 6) (02:30)
1-7. ZPDR – Sensational Memories Float Like Perfume Through My Mind (Prelude Nº 7) (01:06)
1-8. ZPDR – The Snow Falls the Wind Screams and the Storm Rages Yet in My Sad Heart the Tempest Is the Worst to Behold (Prelude Nº 8) (04:42)
1-9. ZPDR – Prophetic Voices (Prelude Nº 9) (02:00)
1-10. ZPDR – Rockets that Fall Back Down to Earth (Prelude Nº 10) (02:26)
1-11. ZPDR – Desire of a Young Girl (Prelude Nº 11) (01:53)
1-12. ZPDR – Night Ride (Prelude Nº 12) (03:34)
1-13. ZPDR – On Foreign Soil Under a Night of Stars Thinking of My Beloved Faraway (Prelude Nº 13) (04:32)
1-14. ZPDR – Fear (Prelude Nº 14) (01:47)
1-15. ZPDR – But Death Is Here in the Shadows (Prelude Nº 15) (06:09)
1-16. ZPDR – Descent into the Abyss (Prelude Nº 16) (03:11)
1-17. ZPDR – She Told Me “I Love You” (Prelude Nº 17) (04:32)
1-18. ZPDR – Divine Curses (Prelude Nº 18) (02:02)
1-19. ZPDR – Wings Wings, that I May Flee to You o My Beloved (Prelude Nº 19) (04:10)
1-20. ZPDR – Funerals (Prelude Nº 20) (01:20)
1-21. ZPDR – Solitary Return to the Place of Confession (Prelude Nº 21) (03:04)
1-22. ZPDR – Rebellion (Prelude Nº 22) (01:50)
1-23. ZPDR – Playing Water Faeries (Prelude Nº 23) (02:36)
1-24. ZPDR – Of Blood of Earthly Pleasure of Death (Prelude Nº 24) (04:45)

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