Alain Planès – Frédéric Chopin: Complete Nocturnes (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

His Debussy and Chopin recordings for harmonia mundi already offer ample evidence that Alain Planès is highly adept at selecting a period instrument best suited for the repertoire. For this complete recording of the Chopin Nocturnes, he has chosen a superb 1836 Pleyel – dating from the same decade during which many of these masterpieces saw the light of day. With this instrument’s unique colour palette at his fingertips, our poet of the keyboard deftly recreates the delicate magic of these immortal pages in which the composer, fascinated by the art of bel canto, developed a new approach to making the piano sing.

Tracklist:
01. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1 (05:48)
02. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 (04:32)
03. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9 No. 3 (06:50)
04. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15 No. 1 (04:51)
05. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15 No. 2 (03:49)
06. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3 (04:09)
07. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (05:36)
08. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2 (05:25)
09. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1 (05:20)
10. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2 (06:14)
11. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32 No. 1 (05:02)
12. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2 (05:43)
13. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 37 No. 1 (06:30)
14. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 12 in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2 (05:50)
15. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62 No. 1 (07:08)
16. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62 No. 2 (06:11)
17. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (06:07)
18. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48 No. 2 (07:12)
19. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor, Op. posth. (03:07)
20. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. posth. 72 No. 1 (04:13)
21. Alain Planès – Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. (04:20)