This new release from Divine Art is a selection of tracks from the Burkard Schliessmann album ‘Chronological Chopin’ for which Schliessmann was distinguished with three medal s at the Global Music Awards 2017 as well as glowing reviews from music critics the world over. An audiophile collection recorded and mastered at 24-bit quality, this is a very rare opportunity to obtain new recordings of Chopin’s masterpieces in the best sound and by a compelling interpreter. German pianist Burkard Schliessmann is a performer with a passion and vision – to seek out and interpret the forms, colors and textures, indeed the soul and expression: the poetic impact, of works we believe have already been fully explored. His previous recordings have received worldwide acclaim - “Schliessmann is too good a pianist for anyone to pass on this” – American Record Guide; “without equal” – Fanfare. Chopin is above all his composer of choice to whom he has devoted endless hours of study and appreciation. An audiophile two-disc set recorded and mastered at 24-bit quality, this is a very rare opportunity to obtain new recordings of Chopin’s masterpieces in the best sound and by a compelling interpreter. Pressed in 180-gram blue vinyl by Pallas of Berlin in luxury gatefold sleeve – pressing will be limited to make this a true collector’s edition.

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Recording sessions: August 15 - 16, 2012, teldex-Studio Berlin April 24 - 25, 2013, teldex-studio Berlin April 8 - 10, 2015, teldex-studio Berlin June 22 - 24, 2009, teldex-studio Berlin. This double LP contains famous Chopinian works (from the Ballades nos. 1, 3 and 4 to the Scherzi nos. 2 and 4; from the Polonaise-Fantaisie to the Barcarolle), performed by one of the greatest German interpreters, Burkard Schliessmann. The recordings first appeared on an SACD from the same label that now presents them on its first audiophile vinyl album. Ip office 500 v2 manual. Schliessmann is a remarkable interpreter of Bach, and this background enables him to face Chopin with an approach which, if it betrays an analytical element, at the same time has no lack of passion, heat and poignancy, and shows the brilliant Polish composer as an inheritor of the harmonic conquests of the Kantor. Artistic Interpretation: Exceptional Technical quality: Optimal.

What we have here is a two lp collection of Chopin pieces recorded between 2009 and 2013 by a pianist whose Chopin, including these performances, has been amply praised in these pages by a series of my colleagues. Based on his annotations, I assume, Schliessmann has been repeatedly called an intellectual: interestingly, we are typically told that this trait doesn’t tarnish his playing. That playing is bold, certainly on these lps rich in tone, and virtuosic. I was surprised by the opening of the first Ballade, which seemed to present the theme almost in pieces, as in a conversation rather than a flow. It’s an approach that works beautifully in the Scherzo in B flat minor, for instance.

Perhaps an intellectual Chopin player is one who points out the structural devices more clearly than another. Mostly I am, like my colleagues, convinced, if not swept away, by Schliessmann’s rich sounding, carefully articulated playing, by his occasional tenderness as well as his almost majestic playing elsewhere.

As for the recording, I note that Stephen Sutton has been given credit for digital remastering of this music for the lps. This is not a direct-to-disc collection, but the piano sound is impressive by any standards. Burkard Schliessmann has been distinguished by the award of three Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards 2017 – as instrumentalist and ‘classical artist’ and for his spectacular Divine Art album ‘Chronological Chopin’.