Ghosts Nino Gvetadze

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Preludes, Op. 28:
• 1 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 1 Agitato in C Major, C.166 00:38
• 2 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 Lento in A Minor, C.167 02:36
• 3 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 3 Vivace in G Major, C.168 00:58
• 4 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 Largo in E Minor, C.169 02:24
• 5 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 5 Molto allegro in D Major, C.170 00:38
• 6 Preludes Op. 28: No. 6 Lento assai in B Minor, C.171 01:52
• 7 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 7 Andantino in A Major, C.172 00:57
• 8 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 8 Molto agitato in F-Sharp Minor, C.173 01:52
• 9 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 9 Largo in E Major, C.174 01:23
• 10 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 10 Molto allegro in C-Sharp Minor, C.175 00:38
• 11 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 11 Vivace in B Major, C.176 00:37
• 12 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 12 Presto in G-Sharp Minor, C.177 01:22
• 13 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 13 Lento in F-Sharp Major, C.178 03:07
• 14 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 14 Allegro in E-Flat Minor, C.179 00:43
• 15 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 Sostenuto in D-Flat Major, C.180 "Raindrop" 05:52
• 16 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 16 Presto con fuoco in B-Flat Minor, C.181 01:10
• 17 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 17 Allegretto in A-Flat Major, C.182 02:48
• 18 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 18 Molto allegro in F Minor, C.183 01:04
• 19 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 19 Vivace in E-Flat Major, C.184 01:31
• 20 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 20 Largo in C Minor, C.185 02:21
• 21 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 21 Cantabile in B-Flat Major, C.186 02:03
• 22 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 22 Molto agitato in G Minor, C.187 00:46
• 23 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 23 Moderato in F Major, C.188 00:53
• 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 24 Allegro appassionato in D Minor, C.189 02:30
• Etudes, Op. 10:
• 25 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor 03:33
• Waltzes, Op. 69:
• 26 Waltzes, Op. 69: No. 1 in A-Flat Major 04:04
• 27 Waltzes, Op. 34: No. 2 in A Minor. Lento 05:08
• 28 Waltzes, Op. 69: No. 2 in B Minor 03:07
• Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31:
• 29 Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 10:03
• Total Runtime 01:06:38

Info for Ghosts

Ghosts is the first album by Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze on the Challenge Classics label. As a winner of the Borletti Buitoni Trust Award in 2010, Nino leads a busy international career and her previous recordings have been highly praised by the critics:

"Outstanding and magical" (The Independent)

"In the very act of playing she is spontaneously creating the Music under her fingers." (BBC Music Magazine).

With Ghosts, Nino presents her thoughtful interpretation of Chopin's Preludes, Op.28. '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...' Nino Gvetadze.

Nino Gvetadzel, piano

Nino Gvetadze
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Nino Gvetadze 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 received various awards. The most important were the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008. She received the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2010.

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 the Rotterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Seoul and Netherlands Philharmonic, Bergische and the Rheinische Philharmonie amongst others. She went on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, . Kammerakademie Potsdam and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Nino has given various recitals all over the world, among those in Hannover (PRO MUSICA Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus), Bayreuth, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival, Bunka-kaikan Hall Tokyo and twice at the Festival Piano aux Jacobins (Toulouse).

The repertoire of Nino stretches from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov and further to contemporary music. Most of the selected pieces are very virtuoso and demanding, but in her interpretation Nino always brings forward its poetry and characteristic colors. The St. Gallen Tagblat wrote: “absolutely thrilling” about her performance of Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto and: “Poetry and Phantasy dominated indefatigably over the pure brilliance.”

Concertonet : “Schubert’s Wanderer Fantaisie was expressed with a total and admirable knowledge of the architecture of the score, enthralling with an outstanding feeling for timbre and colour.”

Nino recorded 3 solo CDs: Piano works by Mussorgsky (Brilliant Classics), Rachmaninoff Preludes op 23 and op 32 (Etcetera) and “Widmung” with Liszt piano works (Orchid Classics). Her recordings and interviews are often broadcasted on European radio and TV Stations.

Nino plays on a Steinway Grand Piano, kindly lent to her by the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation.

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