www.200chopin.com
Chopin was himself a fine pianist and one of the relatively few great composers (Rachmaninov was another) who performed their own compositions in concert. If he had lived during the 2nd half of the 20th century and into the 21st, Chopin’s recordings of his own compositions would no doubt have become irrevocably associated with himself just as with many modern pop artists performing their own music or music composed specifically for them.
Instead, over the last 60 years, professional pianists have flocked to record Chopin’s works. Deutsche Grammophon and Decca made a great many of these recordings, successfully signing many of the most famous pianists of our time. The result is a rich and deep Chopin catalogue and a diversity in the interpretations that is breathtaking.
Our site offers the user to listen for free to full-track streams of this catalogue. Above all the site is being structured to allow the user to listen to and compare all these different interpretations of all Chopin’s works.
As we mentioned in the previous post, we are inviting users to take their time and live with the different interpretations a while, before making their choice of what to keep and buy. Wherever the user is in the site listening to a track, a special functionality can be called upon to view and listen to other artists’ versions of this track, without the user losing his place in the site.
Our next post will look at our efforts to offer as complete a catalogue as we can of Deutsche Grammophon and Decca’s Chopin recordings, detailing some of the highlights of the recordings we are bringing back to the catalogue for the first time since the LP era.
your Web Team
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www.deutschegrammophon.com . www.deccaclassics.com
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