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"Chopin: The Complete Études"
If, as it has been said, a pianist who
can play Chopin's etudes can play anything, then Louis Lortie
can play anything. Having conquered all of the technical difficulties
of these pieces, Lortie plays each one as a miniature tone poem,
aiming for the maximum of musical expression without any seeming
interest in technical display. There have been a few other great
recordings of the Chopin etudes--Cortot's, for example, on Arkadia
1CD 78511, or Zayas on Music & Arts CD 891--but Lortie doesn't
have a great deal of competition in this repertoire. --Leslie
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