![]() It’s hard to think of many works in the piano repertory where the competition on disc is more intense than in the two sonatas, and though Perianes’s performances are fluent enough and always thoughtful, they don’t come close to challenging the finest already available. Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ![]() It is better to remain silent at the risk of. There’s a second Chopin release this month from Harmonia Mundi, a much more conventional recital programme from the Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, which is dominated by the second and third piano sonatas and framed by the three mazurkas Op 63. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. There’s a reined-in stiffness about his playing that is most effective in the more straightforward nocturnes in those that are more harmonically adventurous or melodically more elaborate, one longs for something more imaginative, less prosaic. There is always something special about hearing Chopin’s music on the kind of piano for which it was conceived, but there’s the sense in these performances that Planès could have used a wider range of tone colour and expression than he allows himself. It’s certainly a superb-sounding instrument, with a wonderful balance between the registers, without any hint of hollowness in the treble, and no overpowering snarl from the bass. It’s by no means the first time that his works have been recorded on instruments of that time – 30 years ago, Cyril Huvé made a revelatory recording of the scherzos and ballades on two historical pianos, an 1828 Pleyel and an Érard from 1838 that Chopin almost certainly played, while Planès himself has previously recorded a Chopin recital disc, including a couple of the nocturnes, on the Pleyel that he uses here. I have nothing to declare except my genius. Oscar had two siblings, an older brother. His parents were Sir William Wilde, a successful aural surgeon and writer and Jane Francesco Elgee, who translated and wrote poetry and called herself the voice in poetry of all the people in Ireland. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16th October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. To live is the rarest thing in the world. I can resist everything except temptation. Together with the mazurkas, the other miniature form that he made his own, the nocturnes provide a musical chronology of that development.įor his survey of the complete nocturnes, the French pianist Alain Planès has chosen to use a piano that dates back to the mid point of that development, an instrument made in Paris in 1836 by Chopin’s favourite piano maker, the Pleyel company. Be yourself everyone else is already taken. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.In some significant respects, Chopin’s development as a composer, and the steady refinement of his musical language, are inseparable from the increasing expressive power that the steady advancement in piano technology offered him through his career. ![]() After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.Īs the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. ![]() He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. I grew afraid, and turned to quit the room. Women have a much better time than men in this world there are far more things forbidden to them. It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. To live is the rarest thing in the world.
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