Chopin Nocturne op. 9 no. 2 in E Flat Major - Pianist Michel Mananes CD

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Michel Mañanes plays Chopin piano Nocturne op.9 no 2 E flat major. With recitals for europa and suramerica specially. He won first prize in several young piano competitions. He is Piano Teacher in Madrid and continue to give concerts.

Michel Mañanes has obtained, recently, the University Title of "Expert in Pianistic Interpretation", gotten with "Cum Laudae" by unanimous vote (International University of Andalusia)

Chopin composed his popular Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 when he was about twenty. Like much of Chopin's music, this nocturne is tinged with melancholy.
This popular nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). Nocturne in E Flat Major opens with a legato melody containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.
A sonorous foundation for the melodic line is provided by the widely spaced notes in the accompaniment, connected by the damper pedal. The waltz like accompaniment gently emphasizes the 12/8 meter, 12 beats to the measure subdivided into four groups of 3 beats each.
The nocturne is reflective in mood until it suddenly becomes passionate near the end. The new concluding melody begins softly but then ascends to a high register and is played forcefully in octaves. After a brilliant trill-like passage, the excitement subsides;the nocturne ends calmly

Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; 1 March 1810 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist.He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.
Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother and was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. On 2 November 1830, at the age of twenty, he left Warsaw for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. The outbreak of the Polish November Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led to Chopin's becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration.
In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. Though an ardent Polish patriot. in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen. After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he had a turbulent relationship with the French authoress George Sand. Always in frail health, he died in Paris in 1849, aged thirty-nine, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Chopin's compositions were written primarily for the piano as solo instrument. Though they are technically demanding, the emphasis in his style is on nuance and expressive depth. Chopin invented musical forms such as the instrumental ballade and was responsible for major innovations in the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, étude, impromptu and prélude.

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[OldRabit]

What a beautiful performance!!!

[michelmans]

@OldRabit Thank you! :-)

[PhillipLWilcher]

Beautifully played. There's a lovely balance to your sound in all parts , measured and musical and the conception overall stems from the melodic idea, so important in Chopin. You are elegant and true. A complete pleasure listening to you!

[michelmans]

@PhillipLWilcher thank you! :-)

[cuoylyf]

AWESOME*************

[kacharov]

Beautiful version! I love your phrasing!

[ant1ph0n]

i stopped playing piano when i was 12, i am now 27. terrible idea. don't make the same mistake i did.

[543693The]

@TheSublima

Quel bonheur cette perfection dans la beauté ! merci pour votre pertinente sélection !

(ce Nocturne fut mon 1er disque vinyl acheté étant jeune-fille :)) ... )

Marie

[543693The]

QUELLE BEAUTE !!!

Tous mes compliments et remerciements ! (playlist et favori)

[schymbros]

Excellent play!

[SnejanaKazandjieva]

Фантастично .....Невероятно изпълнение !!!!!Красота ...!!!!

[helladm1]

Hi Michel, you play with so much heart and soul...., thank you for this wonderful concert!!!! greetings Hella

[TheRuizs]

Amazing!! I love the feeling you put into it.

One of the most played songs on my iPod (:

Absolutely Beautiful!

[AverageGamerz]

Very nice. Thank god, I found a version without any random tempo speed ups. 

[et7waage1]

Outstanding!

[kcZaidable]

very relaxing :)