Peter roy katin 14 november 1930 19 march 2015 was a british classical pianist and. Peter katin on the piano with the conductor rudolf schwarz in london in 1959. Peter ilyichtchaikovsky 18401893 was a russian composer and pianist of. If you would like to hear the autograph versions as opposed to the usual fontana version of op. Valses nobles et sentimentales, stephen kovacevich.
It preoccupied chopin in his final months at warsaw. In 1863 all manuscripts were destroyed by a fire, and the only thing thats left of them was the. The complete nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, impromptus and scherzos were. Theres no trace of salon music here, though some will prefer their chopin more perfumed, more ingratiating than this. Print and download in pdf or midi waltz in a minor frederic chopin. Chopins waltzes were unlike any that had come before. Nocturnes, to which he would improvise the most beautiful fioraturas. Download and print top quality waltzes complete sheet music for piano solo by frederic chopin with mp3 and midi files. Waltzes,opus64 firstedition imprints firstedition imprints of a work by chopin are shown below. Classical notes classical classics chopins waltzes. Waltz in a minorchopin sheet music for piano download.
Ses enregistrements studio, allchopin recital, torino, later he composed the andante spianato and grafted it onto the grand polonaise to serve as an introduction, thereby forging a new, expanded work, also designated op. Katin was educated at private schools in balham, caterham, and east grinstead and the. I provide the original scanned version and the filtered, because the filter does some changes smoothening, sharpening borders and some portions of the scan get lost sometimes when they are too small e. The waltz was written sometime between 1843 and 1848, but was not published until 1860, after the composers death. Katin specialised in romantic music, particularly chopin, and impressionist music. Chopins suggested execution of 5against2 in jane stirlings score of. Waltzes, nocturnes played by nikita magaloff, peter katin, iliana vered, peter davis, etc. I found the new peters urtext edition of the chopin waltzes to be more of an academic exercise. The complete waltzes and polonaises peter katin on allmusic 1996. Note please press load more button for more videos.
Peter katins private issues distributed by divine art rp music rp001. Foreword chopins waltzes are full of fun and sparkle with catchy rhythms and fine tunes. The forms themselves are often simpler fewer themes, basic da capo designs. Still, their charms are considerable, and many of the notions he explored in the published waltzes find their ways into the waltzes he presented as gifts or otherwise kept out. Waltzes,opus34 firstedition imprints firstedition imprints of a work by chopin are shown below. Fifty great pianists on bbcs radio 3 as part of the. The waltzes classical music album play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web.
To go directly to a description, click the scores imprint in the bookmarks panel on the left. After considering chopins own performing style, we survey how famous pianists have. Playing chopins tupleted fioraturas in the twentyfirst century ira. Instead, he penned sophisticated waltzes to fill the quiet. British pianist peter katin has amassed an extensive discography over an extraordinary sixtyyear career, ranging from scarlatti to william mathias. Edited by ignace jan paderewski, ludwik bronarski, and jozef turczynski. In contrast to the modernday directness and simplicity characterizing reference versions of the chopin waltzes by arthur rubinstein his stereo recording and dinu lipatti, ingrid fliters virtuosity abounds in fustian oldschool expressive devices, where dynamics, phrasing, articulations, and accents shift with the wind, and rubato rules the roost. Waltzes in d flat major, c sharp minor, a flat major opus 64. Peter katin plays chopin diversions ddv 24116 katin. Check out chopin nocturnes by peter katin on amazon music. Chopin, peter katin waltzes 1979, cassette discogs. This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the united states.
An early proms success with rachmaninovs third piano concerto led peter katin, the british pianist who has died aged 84, to be identified more than he would have wished with that romantic. Waltzes are among his most fascinating compositions, as they display his unique talent within the stricture of established form. Haydn, mozart, beethoven, schubert plus bach and chopin form the. Chopins ausgewahlte pianofortewerke, edited by herrmann scholtz. Complete nocturnes different version to the olympia issue hallmark imp 30367 02357 2cd peter katin. The piece shows great sadness, while enclosing some episodes that hint at happiness and hope. The grande polonaise brillante of 31 was to be the last such he would compose for several years. The film the pianist concludes with this polonaise. But perhaps with the intention of raising it to a higher level, he went on to make continuous efforts in the genre himself. Pianist who brought poetic sensibility to the works of chopin. They were mostly written for his pupils and are not of great difficulty although they do call for quick fingerwork and, like all chopins music, deeply expressive playing.
The collections scores for the work are described on the pages that follow. Frederic chopin 94 free piano sheet to download chopin andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante. The last 18 minutes op 22 and op 69 no 1, recorded as recently as october 2006 at a recital in bexhillonsea, do not rise to the same level. Fifty years of music making a historical record, previously unpublished performances. After chopins death in 1849 most of his possessions and some nonpublished manuscripts went to his family in warsaw. Henle publishes 19 waltzes in all following the order i have followed. The three waltzes, op 64 are regularly included in peter katins chopin recitals and i do admire his performances. Here, his complete survey of the mozart piano sonatas recorded in norway nearly twenty years ago makes its return to the catalogue on the altara label, having previously been available on olympia. He is not a cheap sensational pianist out for show and selfaggrandisement but a perfectionist always concerned with true accounts of the composers written score. Chopin, piano, peter katin the waltzes 1977, vinyl. The waltzes of chopin have little in common with those by schubert or those by the strauss circle he even wrote home from vienna pouring scorn on the waltz, horrified by the fact that they actually call waltzes works. Chopins waltzes are full of fun and sparkle with catchy rhythms and fine tunes. Played on a clementi square piano of 1832 by peter katin. The official position taken by the wikimedia foundation is that faithful reproductions of twodimensional public domain works of art are public domain.
I will not discuss the square piano as the notes with the cd do. If youre looking to examine and understand the genesis of these wonderful pieces, this is edition will provide that information. Perhaps tiring of the glittering stile brillante, chopin set it aside until he had the inspired idea of prefacing it with a work of an altogether different character that he added in unidentified publishern. The waltzes that chopin left unpublished tend to be less complex than the published waltzes. They were hugely different from the popular at the time viennese ballroom style, which chopin thought was a bit loud and silly. The emphasis on consummate mastery of the salon style, so crucial an element of the composers earlier music, is abandoned in favor of a far more. Sparkling, graceful and tinged with an ineffable melancholy, chopins. Chopins lost waltzes sheet music for piano download. Chopin peter katin nocturnes volume 1 vinyl discogs. Chopins sister ludwika made a catalogue of the manuscripts, copying only the first bars of them. This is not a performance oriented edition since it does not. Probably the most famous are the minute waltz in dflat major and the csharp minor waltz of 1847, two of the last set of waltzes chopin published before his death op. Peter katin, piano lp, london records, spa 4073, 1975 rec. His fourteen waltzes the complete edition of these waltzes bear witness to his virtuosity, brilliance and extreme sensitivity, only brought to full expression by an artist during the golden hours of a romantic epoch.
Chopin waltzes, frederic chopin, 3611796, kevin mayhew ltd. Chopins waltzes are a part of the very special atmosphere of the paris salons of this. To understand a piece of music is to look at the score. Chopin started writing waltzes in 1824, when he was fourteen, and continued until the year of his death, 1849. Various artists, frederic chopin, nikita magaloff, ilana vered, peter. The concert pianist, peter roy katin, was born in london on 14.