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4 Ballades and 4 Impromptus
Bella Davidovich
Bella Davidovich (b.1928) was born in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, but moved to Moscow to study with the great Russian pedagogues Konstantin Igumnov and Yakov Flier, and though she later took American citizenship when she emigrated in 1978, it is her Russian training that characterises her musicianship, and the particular style of her many distinguished Chopin recordings.
It is notable that the Russians themselves recognised her command, to the point of inviting her back, in the early days of perestroika, to play in her home country. She does not aim for the weightiness of certain past renowned Chopin players such as Arrau, but her sensitivity to Chopin’s peculiar and seemingly spontaneous sense of line is rivalled by few others. This quality is at a premium in the elusively structured Ballades, where dream-landscapes must be shaped with some rigour if the music is not to become lost in a fog of Romantic languor.
‘Bella Davidovich gives excellent accounts of (the Impromptus), in line with her interpretations of the Ballades. The simplicity and directness of the A flat major Impromptu is particularly striking, and the whole is beautifully impulsive.’ Gramophone, April 1983
Newton Classics 8802047
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