Patrick Cohen - Frédéric Chopin: Les Mazurkas II (2000)

Chopin’s mazurkas are perhaps the most elusive branch of his output. Their most obvious and dangerous challenges to performers lie in their rhythmic subtlety. Of all his music, none is more intimately linked with the accents and inflections of the Polish language, but this isn’t to say that only Poles can do them justice. What they do require, though, is a rhythmic buoyancy and flexibility of line which transcends all national characteristics. Like Chopin himself, they are compounded of irony and paradox. The role of the second beat is crucial to all of them, and to their specific identity as dance music (though Chopin’s were never intended for dancing), yet if they’re to succeed in performance the pianist must neutralise the divisive menace of the bar-line, so that the last thing we think of is counting. And it’s in this realm that I find these generally excellent performances wanting. On the plus side, Cohen commands a wide dynamic range, blessedly lacking in stridency of any kind, and a resourceful tonal palette not always evident in players of period instruments.

–Jeremy Siepmann

Performer:
Patrick Cohen, fortepiano

Track List:
CD1:
Mazurkas, Op. 50, B. 145
01. No. 1 in G Major
02. No. 2 in A-Flat Major
03. No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
Mazurkas, Op. 56, B. 153
04. No. 1 in B Major
05. No. 2 in C Major
06. No. 3 in C Minor
Mazurkas, Op. 59, B. 157
07. No. 1 in A Minor
08. No. 2 in A-Flat Major
09. No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor
Mazurkas, Op. 63, B. 162
10. No. 1 in B Major
11. No. 2 in F Minor
12. No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
Mazurkas, Op. 67
13. No. 1 in G Major, B. 93
14. No. 2 in G Minor, B. 167
15. No. 3 in C Major, B. 93
16. No. 4 in A Minor, B. 163
Mazurkas, Op. 68
17. No. 1 in C Major, B. 38
18. No. 2 in A Minor, B. 18
19. No. 3 in F Major, B. 34
20. No. 4 in F Minor, B. 168
CD2:
2 Mazurkas, B. 16
01. No. 1 in G Major
02. No. 2 in B-Flat Major
03. Mazurka in A Minor, B. 134
04. Mazurka in A Minor, B. 140
05. Mazurka in D Major, B. 71
06. Mazurka in B-Flat Major, B. 73 “Wolowska”
07. Mazurka in C Major, B. 82
08. Mazurka in A-Flat Major, B. 85

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