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The 24 Preludes op. 28
Chopin worked on them in Majorca, during the rainy journey he made with George Sand. He stayed in the Chartreuse de Valdemosa and found himself divided between admiring the beautiful setting and the suffering caused by growing consumption. Had he only composed the 'preludes', he would have confirmed the strange and unique magic which dwelt within him, and his own special grip, infinitely poetical, on the romantic, musical world." - Marie-Paule Cantarella |
For me, music says the unsayable, and Chopin has done it with his music the most eloquently of any composer I've yet discovered. He lived a fairly short, but interesting and productive life. His music continues to speak to and for me, thanks to the marvels of our electronic age. If you have 6 minutes and 31 seconds or so to spend in my store, click here to hear one of Chopin's Polanaises, which has come to be known as the "Heroic". You might also be familiar with an oldie but goodie plucked from the score of this piece of music - 'Til the End of Time - sung by Perry Como. In 1841 the editor of La France Musicale wrote: "Chopin is a composer from conviction. He composes for himself and he plays for himself... Chopin is a pianist apart, who should not be and cannot be compared with anyone." His playing and his compositions had taken Paris by storm and he himself had become the arch-Romantic: an aloof, consumptive genius whose triumphs and failures filled the newspapers daily but who remained distant from his surroundings. |
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In 1964, at his age 19, Evgeny Moguilevsky won the Queen Elisabeth Competition as one of the Soviet delegation's candidates, in Brussels. Critic Jacques Stehman wrote, "Here is the mystery of what one must truly call genius, because this astonishing musical intuition has no other name, when it allows an adolescent to understand the countless depths of psychic life, without having lived through them". In 1974, the "Libre Belgique" drew attention to his exceptional mastery. "Musical America" said of him that he has mastered his technique to perfection in the service of an interpretation rich in sentiment and emotion, poetically Slav. In September 1991, Moguilevsky made his debut in North America, Montreal and San Francisco, where the public's reception was each time enthusiastic and the critics were particularly eulogistic. |
