Chopin | The Nocturnes | Maria João Pires

Frédéric François Chopin
The Nocturnes
Maria João Pires, piano. 


"Chopin is a poet. It’s very inner music and very deep. I don’t feel at all it’s for show. He had that in himself... Chopin is the deep poet of music. But he also invented this terrible thing called "Piano Recitals". That made me suffer all my life."


  

00:00:00 I. Chopin's 200th Birthday. Legendary Late Night Prom in 2010 (The Proms).
Nocturne No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.9, No.1
Nocturne No.2 in E-flat major, Op.9, No.2
Nocturne No.3 in B major, Op.9, No.3
Nocturne No.4 in F major, Op.15, No.1
Nocturne No.5 in F-sharp major, Op.15, No.2
Nocturne No.6 in G minor, Op.15, No.3
Nocturne No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.27, No.1
Nocturne No.8 in D-flat major, Op.27, No.2
Nocturne No.17 in B major, Op.62, No.1
Nocturne No.18 in E major, Op.62, No.2
Nocturne No.19 in E minor, Op.72, No.1
Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor, Op. posthume
(Encore) Nocturne No.11 in G minor, Op.37, No.1
Royal Albert Hall, London, 21.VII.2010.

01:08:13 II. Chopin Festival. Poland Recital in 2014.
Nocturne No.1 in B-flat minor, Op.9, No.1
Nocturne No.2 in E-flat major, Op.9, No.2
Nocturne No.3 in B major, Op.9, No.3
Nocturne No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.27, No.1
Nocturne No.8 in D-flat major, Op.27, No.2
Nocturne No.14 in F-sharp minor, Op.48, No.2
Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor, Op. posthume
Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw, 29.VIII.2014.



Pires believes music should make the world a better place. "We have so many emergencies to deal with in our society now, things like the breakdown of the family, environmental disasters," she has said. "We have to ask, 'How can the way we make music be changed, to help people to face these things?’"

MARIA JOÃO PIRES born in Lisbon on 23 July 1944 and played her first recital aged five. She studied composition and music theory at the Lisbon Conservatory, followed by further studies in Munich and Hanover, Germany. She made her London debut in 1986 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.