Ses Contemporains Et Ses Instruments [CD de audio] Bart Van Oort and Fryderyk Chopin

This 6-CD box set unites the invention of the nocturnal piano piece genre with the development of keyboard instruments and piano technique that emerged at the same time in the late 18th to mid-19th centuries. Muzio Clementi, John Broadwood and Camille Pleyel developed their pianos in London and Paris respectively, the rigid sound of the harpsichord disappeared from people's acoustic memories. With his student John Field (inventor of the nocturnes), Clementi traveled to Paris, Vienna, where they visited Joseph Haydn, and St. Petersburg. New circles of pianists emerged everywhere. In Vienna there were Beethoven, Weber and Hummel. In Paris were Liszt and Kalkbrenner (with whom Chopin had a brief lesson), as well as Ignaz Moscheles, who shaped the piano. Chopin composed his wonderful Posthumous Studies for the Moscheles Piano School, Méthode des Méthodes. Field's nocturnes are heard here in a melancholy Broadwood. And also the very romantic and expressive Third Sonata by Carl Maria von Weber is experienced as an authentic testimony of the piano culture of a time in which composers were still virtuoso, great pedagogues and often also instrument makers. Chopin's mazurkas are heard in a very fine and sensual interpretation, reminiscent of a night of dancing.