Chopin: 1st Piano Concerto Op.11 in E minor and Mazurkas

Chopin: 1st Piano Concerto Op.11 in E minor and Mazurkas

Margarita Höhenrieder Piano

Riccardo Minasi Conductor

Orchestra la Scintilla

F. Chopin 
Piano Concerto in E minor, Op.11, B. 53 and mazurkas

Chopin’s E minor Piano Concerto predates his departure from Warsaw in 1830, yet shows his early maturity as a composer. A fine performance on period instruments recreates the fresher soundworld he would have known. Margarita Höhenrieder on an 1855 Pleyel with Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla conjures up all its lyricism and virtuosity. With conductor Riccardo Minasi, she reveals the combination of post-Mozartian grace and pre-Brahmsian sturdiness in the epically proportioned first movement, also drawing on bel canto inspiration in the central ‘Romance’ and brilliant krakowiak rhythms in the finale.

• Release Date : 04/11/2022

• Label : Solo Musica