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A private story | Piano Works
Frédéric Chopin

A private story | Piano Works

Lestari Scholtes

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917299625
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Catalog number: CC 72996
Releasedate: 27-09-24
- Lestari Scholtes features three discs in Challenge Catalogue, in fact she is the pianist of Trio 258 (Rachmaninov: CC 72920) and of the Scholtes & Janssens piano duo (Mozart/Schubert: CC 72848 and Ten Holt; CC 72987)
- This is her first solo disc and she presents herself with a personal choice of Chopin's oeuvre.
- The selection is surely a personal one (pieces Lestari is especially fond of), but is also a private story of Chopin - as the pieces outline a journey in time through his entire output.  

To me, this album is both a personal story and a musical narrative about one of the (piano) composers I find the most fascinating: Frédéric Chopin. I chose a dozen works; twelve of his jewels that represent different stages of his life and that each hold a particular significance for me. I open up this album with the First Impromptu, the first of Chopin's works I was to learn as a young teenager. The album closes with the first piece by Chopin that I heard as a toddler: my mother often played the Waltz, opus 64 no. 1, at home on our dark brown Rippen piano. My mother, who was always so closely involved and supportive from the first time I reached up to the piano as a young girl until my last concert before her untimely death last April.