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Nelson Freire - Chopin is WQXR: Album Of the Week

The veteran Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire caps his 70th birthday year with the third of three new albums on the Decca label. It features Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, a work whose pianistic brilliance has sometimes been overshadowed by its staid orchestral writing. Cologne's Gürzenich-Orchester brings grace and intelligence to its part while Freire brings out the score's introvert character, finding details of articulation and emphasizing turns of phrase in the piano writing that often go for nothing. Also features are a Ballade, Berceuse, Polonaise and three Mazurkas.

Nelson Freire - Chopin: Various works; Piano Concerto No. 2 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Lionel Bringuier, conductor ON Decca
is a WQXR: New York - Album Of the Week.