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Ghosts
Frédéric Chopin

Nino Gvetadze

Ghosts

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Format: SACD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917276824
Catnr: CC 72768
Release date: 29 September 2017
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Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917276824
Catalogue number
CC 72768
Release date
29 September 2017

"...performances technically and musically of high quality..."

Classic Voice, 05-4-2019
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Nino Gvetadze: “Chopin looked back and evoked for us the story of his life in his 24 Preludes. Through the medium of these works he revealed his deepest fears and sorrows, but also the beauty and integrity of his heart. The story of these ghosts culminates in tolling bells which are, in Cortot’s words, “of blood, of earthly pleasure, of death...” But what follows? A pause: silence, timeless solitude, in the Etude Op.10, No.6. Then, suddenly, the soul wakes up and waltzes into space. The album ends with the Scherzo No.2, “like a charnel house”, or house of the dead, as Chopin apparently described the opening – yet the finale sounds like a celebration of life. And so our ghostly journey ends with fireworks, with smiling and shining, looking far into the future...”

Chopins 'geesten' herleven in zijn muziek!
Pianiste Nino Gvetadze speelt op dit album pianomuziek van de Poolse componist Frédéric Chopin. En terwijl ze speelt lijkt het of ze de muziek vanonder haar vingers tevoorschijn tovert, zoals BBC Music Magazine het lyrisch omschrijft. Het NRC noemt haar "Een geboren pianiste die de kunst verstaat om zelfs tijdens de meest halsbrekende passages tot het hart te spreken." Ook Michel Dutrieue was onder de indruk van de kwaliteiten van Nino Gvetadze, getuige zijn recensie.

Nino Gvetadze zelf over Chopins muziek in deze opname: "Er komt een moment in het leven waarop we terugkijken, proberen de zin van het leven te ontdekken, en dan zien we onszelf in een ander daglicht. We worden achtervolgd door herinneringen en twijfels, die als geesten in onze hersenen rond wervelen. Ze vertellen ons over vergane hoop, liefde, bewondering, maar ook over eenzaamheid, pijn en wanhoop. We staan op de rand, kijken om, blikken terug op die momenten uit het verleden, en vragen ons af, wat als? En we realiseren ons: er is geen weg terug."

De 'ghosts' zijn de herinneringen van Chopin. Ook hij keek terug en vertelt ons in 24 Preludes zijn levensverhaal. In zijn muziek deelt hij zijn diepste angsten en smarten met ons, maar toont hij ook de schoonheid en betrouwbaarheid van zijn hart. Het verhaal van de geesten bereikt het hoogtepunt in een dramatisch 'requiem' in de Prelude in D mineur (dezelfde toonsoort als in Mozarts Requiem), waarin de begrafenisklokken weerklinken. Muziekcriticus Alfred Cortot, die iedere Prelude van een epitheton voorzag, noemde dit stuk "Of blood, of earthly pleasure, of death..."

Maar voor Gvetadze is dat niet het einde van het verhaal. Een pauze en dan volgt stilte, tijdloze eenzaamheid, in de Etude nr. 6, Opus 10. Dan plotsklaps kiest ze voor een spetterend einde met drie Walsen. De ziel ontwaakt en walst de ruimte in. Het album eindigt met de Scherzo No 2, dat klinkt als een knekelhuis, of huis van de dood, zoals Chopin blijkbaar de opening beschreef. Toch klinkt de finale als het vieren van het leven. En zo eindigt deze geestelijke reis met vuurwerk, een glimlach, vreugde en hoopvol ver de toekomst in kijkend, zo laat Gvetadze ons weten.

Geboren en opgegroeid in Tbilisi, in Georgië, verhuisde pianiste Nino Gvetadze na haar conservatoriumstudie naar Nederland. Ze heeft een drukke internationale carrière en wordt alom door critici geprezen om haar optredens. Ze won diverse prijzen en treedt regelmatig op als solist met grote orkesten zoals het Rotterdams Philharmonisch, Nederlands Philharmonisch en Residentie Orkest, en dirigenten als Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin en Jaap van Zweden. Sinds 2008 speelt ze in het Arosa Trio met haar collega's Frederieke Saeijs en Maja Bogdanovic. In augustus 2017 trad ze op tijdens het welbekende Prinsengrachtconcert in Amsterdam, samen met het Brodsky Quartet.

Nino Gvetadze: „Chopin blickte zurück und beschwor für uns seine Lebensgeschichte in seinen 24 Präludien herauf. Durch das Medium dieser Werke enthüllte er seine größten Ängste und Sorgen, aber auch die Schönheit und Redlichkeit seines Herzens. Die Geschichte dieser Geister gipfelt in läutenden Glocken, die, mit Cortots Worten, „von Blut, von irdischen Freuden, von Tod“ zeugen. Doch was folgt? Eine Pause: Stille, zeitlose Einsamkeit, in der Étude Op. 10 Nr. 6. Dann, plötzlich, wacht die Seele auf und dreht sich im Walzer ins All. Das Album endet mit dem Scherzo Nr. 2, „wie ein Beinhaus“, oder Totenhaus, wie Chopin den Anfang beschrieben haben soll – doch das Finale klingt wie freudige Bejahung des Lebens. Und so endet unsere Geisterreise mit Feuerwerk, mit Lächeln und Strahlen, und blickt weit in die Zukunft...“

Artist(s)

Nino Gvetadze (piano)

Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze leads an international career as a soloist and a chamber musician. Her performances have been praised by many critics throughout the Europe and Asia. Nino received various awards, the most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She became the winner of prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2010. Since 2019 Nino Gvetadze is the Artistic Leader of Naarden International Piano Festival. Nino Gvetadze has performed with many outstanding conductors such as Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Tabachnik, John Axelrod and Jaap van Zweden and with orchestras such as the Rotterdam, Residentie-The Hague, Brussels, Espoo-Helsinki, Warsaw, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the...
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Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze leads an international career as a soloist and a chamber musician. Her performances have been praised by many critics throughout the Europe and Asia. Nino received various awards, the most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She became the winner of prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2010. Since 2019 Nino Gvetadze is the Artistic Leader of Naarden International Piano Festival.

Nino Gvetadze has performed with many outstanding conductors such as Michel Plasson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Tabachnik, John Axelrod and Jaap van Zweden and with orchestras such as the Rotterdam, Residentie-The Hague, Brussels, Espoo-Helsinki, Warsaw, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the Rheinische Philharmonie, Münchner Symphoniker, amongst others. She toured with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Camerata RCO and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Recent highlights are the performance of Ulvi Cemal Erkin’s piano concerto in Istanbul and the Variations on a nursery tune of Dohnány with the Liege Royal Philharmonic and chief conductor Gergely Madaras.

In recital Nino has performed all over the world, among other in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger amKlavier-Zyklus), Bayreuth, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater Munich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival, Bunka-kaikan Hall Tokyo, Kuhrhaus Wiesbaden, the Festival Piano aux Jacobins (Toulouse), Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland). In the Netherlands Nino is a regular guest at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven and Edesche Concertzaal. Since 2008 Nino plays in the "Arosa Trio" with her colleagues Frederieke Saeijs and Maja Bogdanovic.

Nino Gvetadze is a Challenge Classics artist. On her 2nd album “Visions” she presents piano pieces of the English composer Cyril Scott. Music journal “Pianist” wrote about her first CD “Ghosts” with the 24 Préludes of Chopin: ‘Gvetadze makes the listener - partly thanks to the wonderful recording - companion of the most intimate thoughts’. Repertoire that has been released on other labels: piano works by Mussorgsky (Brilliant Classics), Rachmaninoff Preludes op 23 and op 32 (Etcetera), “Debussy” with the Préludes book I, Estampes and Claire de Lune (Orchid) and “Widmung” with Liszt piano works (Orchid). The Debussy CD was editor’s choice of both International Record Review (April 2014).

In Tbilisi Nino studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation Nino moved to the Netherlands to study with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn. Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.


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Composer(s)

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition. He was a master in making the small form great. His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes all belong to the most popular standard works for piano ever written.  As a child prodigy, Chopin grew up in a middle class family, who lived among the literati of Warsaw. When in 1830 the November Uprising broke out in Poland, the twenty year old Chopin stayed in Vienna. He became an exile and never returned to his mother country. He eventually settled in Paris.  He avoided public concerts, but he did like performing in small settings, such as salons and at home for his friends. This way, Chopin built a...
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Frédéric Chopin is one of the greatest composers of the Romantic piano tradition. He was a master in making the small form great. His ballades, mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, etudes and nocturnes all belong to the most popular standard works for piano ever written. As a child prodigy, Chopin grew up in a middle class family, who lived among the literati of Warsaw. When in 1830 the November Uprising broke out in Poland, the twenty year old Chopin stayed in Vienna. He became an exile and never returned to his mother country. He eventually settled in Paris. He avoided public concerts, but he did like performing in small settings, such as salons and at home for his friends. This way, Chopin built a reputation as an exceptional pianist, teacher and composer.
Chopin brought a unique synthesis between the Viennese bravado and the French/English lyric style. Even though his pieces often are technically very demanding, the focus was always on creating a lyric expression and poetic atmosphere. He invented the instrumental ballade, and brought salongenres to a higher level with his many innovations and refinements.


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Press

...performances technically and musically of high quality...
Classic Voice, 05-4-2019

Gvetadze seems always to have the whole in mind, and as a result her collection seems something more than a sum of its parts. 
Fanfare, 02-7-2018

She really does Chopin right— and many, many pianists who are good at lots of other music fail us completely in Chopin.
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, 18-5-2018

Nino Gvetadze convinces manually and musically in every beat, above all the slender lightness and tonal transparency of her playing are exemplary.
Fono Forum, 01-3-2018

Chopin, in the hands of Gvetadze, is almost a prayer to universal beauty.
Scherzo, 28-2-2018

Nino Gvetadze evokes the spirits on her amazingly dark Steinway D grand piano and interprets these 24 engnimatic miniatures as dream pictures of the night, as poetic reflections on the unavoidable existence of death... A thrilling recording!
Crescendo.de, 16-2-2018

Gvetadze makes the listener - partly thanks to the wonderful recording - companion of the most intimate thoughts.
Pianist, 09-2-2018

When it comes to Chopin and piano recordings this one is very much the real thing, and richly deserving of your urgent attention.
Musicweb, 07-2-2018

Her touch is light, her technique transparent, the phrases beautifully elastic and the atmosphere generally dreamy-mindful.
Luister, 19-1-2018

Nino Gvetadze played atmospheric and with a lot of imagination.
Music Emotion, 01-1-2018

To celebrate Classic FM's collaboration with the music streaming service MeloMe, Classic FM gives away five copies of the beautiful new album 'Ghosts' by pianist Nino Gvetadze.
Classic FM, 21-12-2017

Klara's choice: It is clear: Nino Gvetadze is a pianist to discover!
Klara, 20-12-2017

An attractive and varied Chopin-program, and Nino Gvetadze plays it all sensitive and beautiful, and with a remarkably rich piano sound.
Klara, 18-12-2017

Dreamy piano playing with delicate passion
Dagblad de Limburger, 11-12-2017

With her profound and insanely well-timed play, Gvetadze penetrates into the soul of the listener.
Klassieke Zaken, 17-11-2017

The star of the Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze rose quickly when in 2008 she won the second prize, the audience award and the press prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Now she releases a CD on Challenge Records with the preludes by Frédéric Chopin with the meaningful title Ghosts.
Pianist, 17-11-2017

Nino Gvetadze deliberately looks for dramatic feelings in Chopin’s Preludes, she emphasizes sorrow and fear, but also joy and optimism. She digs deep into the composer’s soul, and her technical skills and her taste allow her really appealing performances.
Pizzicato, 09-11-2017

It is enchanted with a tear. A bigger compliment hardly seems possible.
Opus Klassiek, 16-10-2017

Poetical Préludes of Chopin by Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze. Warm, highly recommended.
Stretto, 15-10-2017

CD of the week: 'Ghosts' from pianist Nino Gvetadze
AVROTROS, 06-10-2017

This is a remarkable recital of ghosts and magic. As far as I’m concerned the ‘smiling and shining future’ should be hers’.  
HRAudio, 06-10-2017

It is a grand vision of the Preludes, which, in addition to the famous recordings of the past, continues to flourish.
De Volkskrant, 02-10-2017

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01.
Preludes Op. 28: Agitato in C Major, C.166
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(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Lento in A Minor, C.167
02:36
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Vivace in G Major, C.168
00:58
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Largo in E Minor, C.169
02:24
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Molto allegro in D Major, C.170
00:38
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Lento assai in B Minor, C.171
01:52
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Andantino in A Major, C.172
00:57
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Molto agitato in F# Minor, C.173
01:52
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Largo in E Major, C.174
01:23
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
10.
Preludes Op. 28: Molto allegro in C# Minor, C.175
00:38
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
11.
Preludes Op. 28: Vivace in B Major, C.176
00:37
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
12.
Preludes Op. 28: Presto in G# Minor, C.177
01:22
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Lento in F# Major, C.178
03:07
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Allegro in E-flat Minor, C.179
00:43
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Sostenuto in D-flat Major, C.180 ?Raindrop?
05:52
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Presto con fuoco in B-flat Minor, C.181
01:10
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
17.
Preludes Op. 28: Allegretto in A-flat Major, C.182
02:48
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
18.
Preludes Op. 28: Molto allegro in F Minor, C.183
01:04
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
19.
Preludes Op. 28: Vivace in E-flat Major, C.184
01:31
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
20.
Preludes Op. 28: Largo in C Minor, C.185
02:21
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Preludes Op. 28: Cantabile in B-flat Major, C.186
02:03
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
22.
Preludes Op. 28: Molto agitato in G Minor, C.187
00:46
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
23.
Preludes Op. 28: Moderato in F Major, C.188
00:53
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
24.
Preludes Op. 28: Allegro appassionato in D Minor, C.189
02:30
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
25.
Etude in E-flat Minor Op. 10, No. 6
03:33
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
26.
Waltz in A flat Major Op. 69, No. 1
04:04
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
27.
Waltz in A Minor Op. 34, No. 2
05:08
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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Waltz in B Minor Op. 69, No. 2
03:07
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
29.
Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 31
10:03
(Frédéric Chopin) Nino Gvetadze
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