{"product_id":"chopin-nocturnes-fantasia-barcarolle","title":"Chopin: Nocturnes, Fantasia \u0026 Barcarolle","description":"\u003cp\u003eNocturnes Nos.1-21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFantasia \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarcarolle, op.60 *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdam Harasiewicz, piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeeping Classics CBOX 2021\/5 [ADD,121:56]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003cem\u003e \"This is music-making of compelling urgency, clear and unsentimental. He treats the most familiar of the Nocturnes, the second in E-flat, with more care than most. A requirement for intermediate piano students (who mostly tend to play it rather badly), its sheer ubiquity has rendered it a \"throw-away\", like the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Harasiewicz's exquisite artistry negated this wrong-headedness in one fell swoop. The ferocity of the middle portion of the F-major is terrifying; the D-flat is a luminous balm after the moody C-sharp minor. Big-boned in its narrative, the C-minor\u0026amp;nbsp; is really more ballade than nocturne. Harasiewicz's remarkable restraint in the doppio movimento only underlines the dramatic tension. The Op. 62 pair (B major, E major) fly by too quickly for me to absorb the intricacies of Chopin's ingenious covered counterpoint. The tempo of the first is a little too fast, and the second, an elegiac farewell, would have been more heartbreaking had Harasiewicz played its A sections more calmly and simply. \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e                                            American Record Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*NOT AVAILABLE IN NORTH AMERICA, E.U. \u0026amp; U.K. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beeping Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37501523099797,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0495\/4134\/9525\/products\/chopin5.jpg?v=1606930645","url":"https:\/\/beeping-classics.myshopify.com\/products\/chopin-nocturnes-fantasia-barcarolle","provider":"Beeping Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}