The commercial success of this release shows how strongly audiences hunger for fresh interpretations of mainstream repertory, and a fresh interpretation is exactly what you get. British pianist Kenneth Hamilton has written a book on so-called "golden-age" pianism and sets out to draw inspiration from it -- not to slavishly re-create it -- in modern readings of Chopin. In a way his goals are similar to those of the U.S.-based Steinway & Sons label, which has issued recordings of programs of this kind, but Hamilton's ...
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The commercial success of this release shows how strongly audiences hunger for fresh interpretations of mainstream repertory, and a fresh interpretation is exactly what you get. British pianist Kenneth Hamilton has written a book on so-called "golden-age" pianism and sets out to draw inspiration from it -- not to slavishly re-create it -- in modern readings of Chopin. In a way his goals are similar to those of the U.S.-based Steinway & Sons label, which has issued recordings of programs of this kind, but Hamilton's reinterpretations of Chopin for the Prima Facie label are more radical (or more conservative, depending on your outlook). The list of unfamiliar things you will hear is long, making it likely that reactions to what Hamilton does here will be essentially personal. They include varied repeats (sample the last part of the "Funeral March" of the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35), fairly substantial alterations of attack and dynamics, heavy use of tempo rubato even by the usual...
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Add this copy of Preludes to Chopin-Sonatas, Barcarolle, Polonaise to cart. $30.93, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2019 by Prima Facie.
