Barcarolle for piano in F sharp major, Op. 60, CT. 6
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, CT. 202
Hail the return of Nelson Freire! Of course, the great Brazilian pianist has never actually been gone. Since his debut in Vienna playing Brahms' F minor Sonata at the age of 15, Freire has performed over 50 concerts a year in musical capitals like Berlin, London, Petersburg, and New York. But as far as recordings go, Freire is nearly a complete unknown with barely a handful of recordings to his credit. Still, those handful were more than enough to earn him a well-deserved volume in Philips' Great Pianists of the Twentieth ...
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Hail the return of Nelson Freire! Of course, the great Brazilian pianist has never actually been gone. Since his debut in Vienna playing Brahms' F minor Sonata at the age of 15, Freire has performed over 50 concerts a year in musical capitals like Berlin, London, Petersburg, and New York. But as far as recordings go, Freire is nearly a complete unknown with barely a handful of recordings to his credit. Still, those handful were more than enough to earn him a well-deserved volume in Philips' Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century series. Finally, in the first years of the twenty first century, Decca signed Freire to a long-term contract and this disc is his third disc for that label.Appropriately, it is also the second disc devoted to Chopin, who, like Freire, is a true poet of the piano. In Freire's hand, every melody is phrased with its own rise and fall, every harmony is voiced with its own inner life, every rhythm is articulated with its own pulse, and everything fused together shares its own...
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