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    Concerto

    Jan 24, 2023 4 minutes

    Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 1; Mazurkas – selection

    Margarita Höhenrieder (piano); Orchestra La Scintilla/Riccardo Minasi

    Solo Musica SM 400 69:29 mins

    Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto predates his departure from Warsaw in 1830, yet shows his early maturity as a composer. A fine performance on period instruments recreates the fresher soundworld he would have known. Margarita Höhenrieder on an 1855 Pleyel with Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla conjures up all its lyricism and virtuosity. With conductor Riccardo Minasi, she reveals the combination of post-Mozartian grace and pre-Brahmsian sturdiness in the epically proportioned first movement, also drawing on bel canto inspiration in the central ‘Romance’ and brilliant krakowiak rhythms in the finale.

    A change of venue (more intimate) and piano (another Pleyel of the same period) is audible in the

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