℗ 2015 Delphian Records Ltd
| Released | July 31, 2015 |
| Duration | 1h 04m 30s |
| Record Label | Delphian Records |
| Catalogue No. | DCD34159 |
| Genre | Classical (Keyboard) |
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Nocturnes, Op. 48
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1.1
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No. 1 in C Minor
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
8:16 | |||
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Études, Op. 10
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1.2
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No. 3 in E Major
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
4:32 | |||
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Valses, Op. 64
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1.3
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No. 2 in C Sharp Minor
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
4:08 | |||
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1.4
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No. 1 ‘Minute Waltz’ in D Flat Major
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
1:49 | |||
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Scherzos, Op. 31
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1.5
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No. 2 in B Flat Minor
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
10:30 | |||
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1.6
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Polonaise in F Sharp Minor, Op. 44
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
11:54 | |||
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Valses, Op. 34
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1.7
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No. 2 in A Minor
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
5:59 | |||
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Mazurkas, Op. 7
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1.8
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No. 1 in B Flat Major
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
2:32 | |||
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1.9
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No. 2 in A Minor
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
3:36 | |||
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1.10
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3 Écossaises, Op. 72 No. 3
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
2:40 | |||
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Polonaises, Op. 40
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1.11
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No. 1 ‘Military’ in A Major
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
5:01 | |||
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Valses, Op. 69
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1.12
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No. 1 in A Flat Major
Frederic Chopin; David Wilde |
3:33 | |||
The reviews that greeted Vol II of David Wilde’s Chopin last year spoke of his playing as ‘vast, monumental, inexorable…a wealth of colour and detail, all in service of an overarching design of crystal clarity’ (International Record Review).
Wilde, wrote Bryce Morrison in Gramophone, ‘scorns all easy facility,’ presenting Chopin not as the familiar salon dandy but as ‘an epic, gnarled and rugged genius shaking his fist at the universe with all the defiance of King Lear’. BBC Radio 3’s CD Review concurred: ‘The space that he gives the music is extraordinary…This is on a grand scale.’ Here is a further instalment of this extraordinary Chopin journey. As he sat down to record the B flat minor Scherzo, Wilde said to Delphian producer Paul Baxter: ‘I’ve been playing this piece for 73 years – I don’t think I need a score!’ This is Chopin absorbed and reshaped: the radical expressive outcome of a lifetime’s involvement with this inexhaustible composer.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Delphian Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -6.19 -11.06 to -0.40 | -27.75 -32.57 to -19.95 | -24.16 -29.20 to -16.80 | 14 12 to 16 | |
| 1 | No. 1 in C Minor | -1.08 | -26.58 | -21.4 | 16 |
| 2 | No. 3 in E Major | -5.21 | -27.91 | -23.7 | 13 |
| 3 | No. 2 in C Sharp Minor | -11.06 | -31.00 | -28.0 | 12 |
| 4 | No. 1 ‘Minute Waltz’ in D Flat Major | -7.59 | -27.02 | -23.9 | 12 |
| 5 | No. 2 in B Flat Minor | -3.10 | -24.92 | -20.8 | 14 |
| 6 | Polonaise in F Sharp Minor, Op. 44 | -0.40 | -22.65 | -19.0 | 14 |
| 7 | No. 2 in A Minor | -9.72 | -31.51 | -28.5 | 14 |
| 8 | No. 1 in B Flat Major | -8.58 | -28.89 | -25.7 | 13 |
| 9 | No. 2 in A Minor | -9.26 | -31.55 | -27.8 | 14 |
| 10 | 3 Écossaises, Op. 72 No. 3 | -7.52 | -28.49 | -25.1 | 13 |
| 11 | No. 1 ‘Military’ in A Major | -1.95 | -19.95 | -16.8 | 13 |
| 12 | No. 1 in A Flat Major | -8.89 | -32.57 | -29.2 | 15 |