Brilliant Classics

Chopin: Études

Chopin: Études
Composer Frédéric Chopin
Artist Zlata Chochieva piano
Format 1 LP
Cat. number PCL10291
EAN code 5029365102919
Release February 2024

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About this release

On 180gm vinyl, a new LP mastering for Zlata Chochieva’s definitive modern recording of a landmark in the Romantic virtuoso repertoire.
In March 2013, Bryce Morrison in Gramophone welcomed Zlata Chochieva’s debut on Brilliant Classics, playing Rachmaninoff (PCL0047) noting that she is ‘the possessor of a comprehensive technique who brings an inner glow to every bar. Her phrasing is indelibly Russian in its fullness and warmth, backed by a dauntless and easy command.’
Her recordings have continued to attract such praise, with this recording of the Chopin Etudes winning an Editor’s Choice award in 2015. It was claimed that one renowned pianist regarded Chochieva’s interpretation as ‘the greatest I’ve ever heard’ – backed up by Jeremy Nicholas writing in Gramophone that ‘in each of the 27 studies Chochieva comes as close to anyone to how I hear the ideal performance in my head, or as I would wish to play them had I the ability to do so… Taken as read are a superlative technique and an ideal recorded sound… One of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautiful sounding versions I can recall.’
On LP, Chochieva’s version deserves to take its place alongside classic traversals such as Pollini on DG. As with all Piano Classics LPs, the vinyl version has been mastered at the Optimal factory, renowned for its audiophile standards. The LP is packaged as a gatefold with an extensive essay on the Etudes and a full biography for Chochieva, which concludes with this endorsement from Stephen Kovacevich: ‘Zlata Chochieva is one of the most interesting and unusual pianists today. She has superb technical abilities, but it is her personal intuition in the music she play s that is special. I would be interested to hear anything she does and that is rare.’

- This is the LP version of that iconic recording, which still moves the hearts of many music lovers.
- The release in 2014 of the Chopin Etudes by Zlata Chochieva took the musical world by storm. Showered with 5 star reviews it firmly established her name as one of the most fascinating artists of her generation, pairing an immaculate technique to deeply-felt musicality.
- Writing in Gramophone of Zlata Chochieva’s sensational recording of the Chopin Etudes, being included in Gramophone’s list of 10 greatest Chopin recordings, critic Jeremy Nicholas exclaimed, “it is certainly one of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautiful-sounding versions I can recall.”

Listening

Track list

Disk 1

  1. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: I. Étude No. 1 in C Major. Allegro
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: II. Étude No. 2 in A Minor. Allegro
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: III. Étude No. 3 in E Major. Lento ma non troppo
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: IV. Étude No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor. Presto
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: V. Étude No. 5 in G-Flat Major. Vivace
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: VI. Étude No. 6 in E-Flat Minor. Andante
  7. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: VII. Étude No. 7 in C Major. Vivace
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: VIII. Étude No. 8 in F Major. Allegro
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: IX. Étude No. 9 in F Minor. Allegro molto agitato
  10. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: X. Étude No. 10 in A-Flat Major. Vivace assai
  11. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: XI. Étude No. 11 in E-Flat Major. Allegretto
  12. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 10: XII. Étude No. 12 in C Minor. Allegro con fuoco

Disk 2

  1. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: I. Étude No. 1 in A-Flat Major. Allegro sostenuto
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: II. Étude No. 2 in F Minor. Presto
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: III. Étud No. 3 in F Major. Allegro
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: IV. Étude No. 4 in A Minor. Agitato
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: V. Étude No. 5 in E Minor. Vivace
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: VI. Étude No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor. Allegro
  7. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: VII. Étude No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor. Lento
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: VIII. Étude No. 8 in D-Flat Major. Vivace
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: IX. Étude No. 9 in G-Flat Major. Allegro assai
  10. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: X. Étude No. 10 in B Minor. Allegro con fuoco
  11. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: XI. Étude No. 11 in A Minor. Lento-allegro con brio
  12. Frédéric Chopin: Études Op. 25: XII. Étude No. 12 in C Minor. Molto allegro con fuoco