Sunday, March 07, 2010

Chopin Butterfly Etude Old School Battle Royal

pianopera has assembled a comparison (in chronological order) of seven historic performances of the Chopin Butterfly Etude Op. 25 #9, as played by Backhaus, Paderewski, Godowsky, Friedman, Cortot, Arrau, and a young Ashkenazy. Listen to how tempos, rubato, piano quality, and stylistic approaches change over 50 years.

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful, thanks for posting.

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  2. thanks for posting...great to hear

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  3. Thank you so much for posting...Great to hear and very intersting!

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