The 19th-century composer John Field was the first to name his gentle and delicate piano pieces ‘nocturnes’. The word – and the genre of ‘sleep music’ it presaged – is ubiquitous today ...
In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...
Ignore the ludicrous, sultry picture of Elizabeth Joy Roe on the back of this CD’s cover. Her playing of Britten’s powerful 1938 concerto has an allure that is anything but sexy; it’s urgent and ...
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