The SWR recordings

Name: The SWR recordings
Brand: SWRmusic
SKU: SWR19161CD
Price: 32.99 EUR
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Artists: Freire, Nelson

Pianist Nelson Freire comes from Brazil. Alongside Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich, with whom he has been friends since the Vienna Study Days and has often performed in duo, he forms a kind of trio of the most important South American pianists of his generation. He was born in Boa Esperança in... Read more

Description

The recordings published here, including the rarely performed Fantasie “Mômoprecóce” by Heitor Villa-Lobos, cover a span of nearly three decades. Freire’s playing always has something light and sparkling about it, not in the sense of artificial brightening, but in the sense of being ‘free and unconstrained’.

Number	Title	Playing time
1	Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22	00:13:13	listen
2	Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 35 “with the Funeral March”
2 . 1	1. Grave (Doppio movimento)	00:05:36	listen
3 . 2	2. Scherzo: Presto, ma non troppo	00:06:29	listen
4 . 3	3. Funeral March: Lento	00:08:28	listen
5 . 4	4. Finale: Presto	00:01:34	listen
6	Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54	00:09:47	listen
1	Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
1 . 1	1. To be played thoroughly fantastically and passionately	00:12:06	listen
2 . 2	2. Moderately, thoroughly energetically	00:07:26	listen
3 . 3	3. To be played slowly, throughout quietly	00:09:36	listen
4	Arabesque in C major, Op. 18	00:06:06	listen
5	Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79 No. 1	00:08:14	listen
6	Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2	00:06:41	listen
7	Estampes (3 pieces for piano)
7 . 1	No. 1 Pagodes	00:04:07	listen
8 . 2	No. 2 La Soirée dans Grenade	00:04:39	listen
9 . 3	No. 3 Jardins sous la pluie	00:03:25	listen
1	Prometheus, Op. 60 (Le poème du feu)	00:20:34	listen
2	Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in Spanish Gardens)
2 . 1	No. 1 En el Generalife	00:10:35	listen
3 . 2	No. 2 Danza lejana	00:04:46	listen
4 . 3	No. 3 En los jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba	00:08:04	listen
5	Mômo precóce (Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra)	00:22:55	listen