Francois Chaplin

François Chaplin – Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D 935 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:35 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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“The way into Schubert’s world is full of twists and turns… A lengthy progress towards what I’ve always thought to be the ultimate expression of the lightness of being … For me, playing Schubert is the culmination of a voyage of self-discovery … You’re plunged into the same self-doubt, experience the same joy he did. I can find my self in this intimate exchange.

Each one of his eight Impromptus is, in its own way, a microcosm of the Schubertian world, an echo of the Vienna that was so dear to him. For me, they are an inner-journey that consumes every waking hour, strips my soul bare and fuses all those hopes and uncertainties into one. I lose myself in them and can see myself more clearly as a result.

To me, that’s the very essence of the impromptus: an act of abandonment that calls life itself into question and gives proof to the brilliance of Schubert’s genius in all its intricate and astonishing complexity.” –François Chaplin

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François Chaplin – Scriabin: Complete Mazurkas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:42 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
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The 21 Mazurkas belong to those youthful works which it has been agreed upon to designate as Scriabin’s ‘first period’, thus referring to a composer still heavily influenced by romantic models, and Chopin in particular. Too rarely in concert, these pieces indeed possess a melodic inventiveness and charm which make them as appealing as they are accessible. By their conciseness and finely wrought style, they even figure – with the Prelude- among the finest examples of the Russian composer-pianist’s miniaturist art.

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François Chaplin – Brahms: Intermezzi, Rhapsodies (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:55 minutes | 889 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following a previous recording devoted to Mozart, François Chaplin has chosen Brahms’ latest opus for solo piano: Rhapsodies Op. 79 and the intermezzi from Klavierstücke Op. 117 and Op. 118. The Rhapsodies, moving and powerful scores, express Brahms’ sober melancholy. Far from his symphonic works, the interludes of Opus 117 and Opus 118, true miniatures, reveal the inner imagination of the composer. Brahms talks directly to the heart of the listener with his mature and sober poetry. Within these Klavierstücke, the interlude is a humble but generous genre where the musician gathers freely the fruits of his most intimate inspiration. These « lullabies of pain », as he called them, are composed during summer in the Austrian countryside, dear to this sturdy northern German. The emotion that emerges from it is all the more intense as it measures his artistic evolution. On this journey, François Chaplin brings out a soft poetry from a contained lyricism.

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François Chaplin – Chopin: 19 Valses (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:28 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Very popular during Chopin’s lifetime, the Waltzes have long been a favourite with professionals and amateurs alike. Highly virtuosic – most of them were clearly not intended to be danced – and sometimes melancholy, they nevertheless retain the distinctive lightness and grace that we associate with the genre.
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François Chaplin – Chopin – Nocturnes (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:50:54 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Classical
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…François Chaplin was noticed by the critics and the audience with a complete recording of Debussy’s piano pieces released by Arion between 2000 & 2005 “With what is needed of distance, distinction and of calm ecstasy for the essentially aristocratic art of Claude de France… a complete recording which will mark the recent debussy discography.” Gilles Macassar Télérama 2005

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