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As any pianist will tell you, Chopin's complete
Etudes. are murderous in their demands--not just technically but musically too.. Sometimes listening to recordings you get the impression that the. pianist has sat down at the piano stool with a grim sense of dread at. the ordeal ahead. With Vladimir Ashkenazy, on the other hand, the. impression is very much of an artist in the peak of health positively. bounding towards the piano. This was his first recording of the set,. made when he was a mere 22 years old, and it's his best. From first to. last, nothing seems to faze him (he never seems anywhere near the limit. of his technique, even in the most transcendent of them, such as Op. 10. No. 7 or Op. 25 No. 10) and, even more importantly, each
Etude. tells a story--just listen to the grief-laden Op. 10 No. 6 or the. flitting of Op. 25 No. 9 (sometimes nicknamed "The Butterfly" and here. actually sounding like one). In Ashkenazy's hands these
Etudes. become art, not simply gymnastics. And Liszt's devilish
Mephisto. Waltz, recorded just a year later, is simply jaw-dropping, not just. in its bravura, but in the phenomenal control that Ashkenazy displays. It's some encore!
--Harriet Smith