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Chopin’s piano works remain as popular as ever and have been widely recorded, but this new album from noted pianist Goran Filipec explores a now forgotten aspect of 19th-century performance style. Pianists, while preserving the composer’s original ideas, were happy to give Chopin’s works a more extrovert aspect that aligned with the more powerful Romantic repertoire in vogue at the time. The booklet notes, written by Goran himself, pass on some of the detailed knowledge he acquired during his research for the recording.
Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Preludes, Ballades and Scherzos
Goran Filipec, PianoThe extreme delicacy and finesse of Chopin’s pianistic style was unusual in an era when star pianists such as Liszt and Anton Rubinstein were developing more virtuosic and experimental effects. It led some performers of the day to adapt Chopin’s works to suit the context of their time. Goran Filipec has traced the practices of these pianists to fashion a programme of Chopin’s works performed in the spirit of the ‘grand style’. A digital EP featuring four bonus tracks is also available to stream and download (9.70383).
Fryderyk CHOPIN
Preludes Nos. 4 and 18
Fantasy in F minor
Polonaise No. 6 ‘Heroic’
* Only available for download and streaming
A laureate of several international piano competitions and widely renowned for his exceptional interpretations of the Romantic repertoire, Goran Filipec is a pianist of fiery virtuosity and evocative pianistic style, often performing his own arrangements and adaptations. Initially a pupil of Evgeny Zarafiants and Oxana Yablonskaya, Filipec studied with Naum Grubert and Natalia Trull at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He also holds a PhD in music from Sorbonne Université and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse of Paris.
– Gramophone
– Gramophone
– MusicWeb International
Piano Concerto
Symphonic Overtures Nos. 1 and 2
Filipec
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Cassuto
– American Record Guide