Cecile Licad Performs Chopin

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Includes: Ballade in G Minor, Op.23; Nocturne in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1; Twelve Etudes, Op. 10; Scherzo in B-flat Minor, Op. 31

Superb

Cecile Licad plays the Ballade in g- Op. 23, Scherzo in Bb- and the 12 Etudes. I denominate as 'artist' those who have not only virtuosity but musicality. Let me say this as restrainedly as I can and as concise as possible. Cecile Licad is a great artist. She has virtuosity sprinkled with
colors and light and shadow, and such a wonderful 'touch'. This disk is
worth much more than what I paid for it. There are beautiful flowers in the forest, but this one has been hidden away amongst them; and I only found the most beautiful today.

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Cecille Licad performs Chopin

I've listened to many Chopin recordings, LP and CD and I would definitely include this on my Desert Island. There is nothing sentimental to convey unless it's already there in the music of Chopin. Cecile Licad shows and exemplifies Chopin with fulsome grace and humility personified without any outward technical pyrotechnics to draw attention away from the music. It's so wonderful to hear a pianist who is able to communicate. This in itself is a challenge most pianists are not adept (in Chopin), to be musical without drawing attention to the technical. She simply let's it flow and sing. Lastly there are no technical hurtles to overcome. Cecile simply does the music and it's overwhelming in it's naturalness and yet so grandly expliciit in the message conveyed. Don't listen to critics and their reviews (drivel)about techical shortcomings. It's all hogwash!! This is a glorious, joyous and lovely CD.

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Young Cecile on Chopin

This is a wonderful record of Licad's early reading of Chopin, particularly the Op 10 etudes. She plays these etudes quite differently these days and in my opinion, more mature interpretation, but just the same, this CD captures her music as a younger pianist. I hope she records these etudes again, perhaps along with the Op 25, to give us a glimpse of her maturity as an artist.

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