Dialogue: Mozart & Chopin [Pure DSD]

If you enjoy the music of Chopin, just get this recording and enjoy some excellent performances of Chopin mazurkas, preludes and waltzes with some of the best recorded sound of a piano you'll find anywhere. The Prelude in C minor, op. 28:20, played on track 15 and the closing Ballade in G minor, op. 23, are to die for. If you are first exploring the works of Josep Colom and want to sample only one album, you won't do better than starting here.

Colom plays with a great deal of emphasis on poetic and especially rhythmic freedom. Interpretative standards are thus rewritten by Colom into a window in which one will dream away and then roar out of the virtual room. The recording quality is excellent.

“Josep Colom is a veteran Spanish pianist, renowned for his recordings of De Falla, Mompou and Brahms. […] On this recording, he surely enjoys the finest sound engineering of his career as he debuts for a small but outstanding Madrid-based audiophile label, Eudora. […] this project confirms the sonic wizardry of Gonzalo Noque, producer and engineer. […]

We can also imagine what it would have been like for Mozart, 73 years old in 1829, the year of Chopin’s first public appearance (which happened to be in Vienna), to have taken in this evocation of otherworldly beauty. As played so brilliantly by Josep Colom, there is no doubt that this music would have been both intelligible and deeply pleasing to Mozart.[…]

This album will definitely reward those willing to suspend normative performance standards in favor of an open-ended and deeply creative approach to a body of work that, perhaps, has become just a bit too familiar and routine.”

The beauty of sound, warmth, eloquence, and subtlety are Josep Colom's tools, a pianist who finds himself in a sweet state of artistic maturity. An album which catches you from the first notes.

"The product of Colom's original narrative-based program, his stunning interpretations and the artistry of Eudora's DSD recording together produce a truly unique musical experience. Even the booklet's beautiful photographs of roses on a dark leafy background hint at the narrative of the music, the pianistic sequence involving the flux of light and dark. [...] This album gives pure joy, and induces the listener to immediately play it again."

"[...]Not only interesting, but also a very personal recording which will guarantee a beautiful and enriching experience to any opened-minded listener."