Artist: Bart Van Oort
Title: Chopin & Field - Complete Nocturnes
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Brilliant Classic
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) + Scans
Total Time: 04:00:58
Total Size: 782 Mb

Tracklist:

1. Nocturne in E-Flat Major, H. 24 03:55
2. Nocturne in C Minor, H. 25 03:36
3. Nocturne in A-Flat Major, H. 26 04:12
4. Nocturne in A Major, H. 36 05:53
5. Nocturne in B-Flat Major, H. 37 03:18
6. Nocturne in F Major, H. 40 04:41
7. Nocturne in C Major, H. 45 05:01
8. Nocturne in A Major, H. 14e 04:25
9. Nocturne in E-Flat Major, H. 30 03:36
10. Nocturne in E Minor, H. 46b 02:40
11. Nocturne in E-Flat Major, H. 56a 05:13
12. Nocturne in G Major, H. 58d 02:23
13. Nocturne in D Minor, H. 59 03:01
14. Nocturne in F Major, H. 62a 04:36
15. Nocturne in E Major, H. 54f 09:53
16. Nocturne, Op. 9: No. 1 in B-Flat Minor 05:11
17. Nocturne, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major 04:07
18. Nocturne, Op. 9: No. 3 in B Major 06:22
19. Nocturne, Op. 72: No. 1 in E Minor 03:36
20. Nocturne, Op. 15: No. 1 in F Major 04:13
21. Nocturne, Op. 15: No. 2 in F-Sharp Major 03:32
22. Nocturne, Op. 15: No. 3 in G Minor 05:01
23. Nocturne, Op. 32: No. 1 in B Major 04:42
24. Nocturne, Op. 32: No. 2 in A-Flat Major 05:10
25. Nocturne, Op. 62: No. 1 in B Major 06:53
26. Nocturne, Op. 62: No. 2 in E Major 05:32
27. Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. 03:54
28. Nocturne, Op. 27: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor 04:57
29. Nocturne, Op. 27: No. 2 in D-Flat Major 06:03
30. Nocturne, Op. 37: No. 1 in G Minor 06:20
31. Nocturne, Op. 37: No. 2 in G Major 06:31
32. Nocturne, Op. 48: No. 1 in C Minor 06:05
33. Nocturne, Op. 48: No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor 07:02
34. Nocturne, Op. 55: No. 1 in F Minor 04:44
35. Nocturne, Op. 55: No. 2 in E-Flat Major 04:57
36. Nocturne in C Minor, Op. Posth. 02:55
37. Nocturne alla Field in B-Flat Major, Op. 52 04:42
38. Nocturne, Op. 121: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Les soupirs de la harpe eolienne" 04:11
39. Nocturne, Op. 121: No. 2 in F Major (A trois mains) 04:03
40. Soireés musicales, Op. 6: No. 2, Nocturne in F Major 05:08
41. Les cloches du monestère, Op. 54: Nocturne in D-Flat Major 05:13
42. Première pensée: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 1 03:47
43 Nocturne in B Major, Op. 22 05:40
44. Notturnino innamorato in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 63 No. 43 02:09
45 Nocturne in E-Flat Major 05:44
46. La Murmure. Nocturne in A-Flat Major 03:03
47. Nocturne, Op. 21: No. 1 in G Minor 04:54
48. Nocturne, Op. 21: No. 2 in E-Flat Major 06:04
49. Nocturne, Op. 24: No. 1 in F Minor 04:08
50. Nocturne, Op. 24: No. 2 in D-Flat Major 05:24
51. Pozegnanie, Nocturne in G Minor 02:38

Performers:
Bart van Oort, piano

A wonderful idea brilliantly executed, Bart van Oort's four-disc set entitled The Art of the Nocturne is not only an in-depth examination of one of the most romantic of romantic musical forms, but also a really sexy set of seduction discs that cannot fail to warm even the coldest heart. The first disc in Oort's survey includes all the elegantly expressive Nocturnes of Irish-Russian composer John Field, the second and third discs include all the supremely sensual Nocturnes of Polish-French composer Frédéric Chopin, and the fourth disc includes individual Nocturnes by various contemporaries of Chopin, of whom the best known are Clara Schumann and Charles-Valentin Alkan and the least known is Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski. Oort is a sensitive and soulful player with supple technique, and, thankfully, he simply plays the music and doesn't impose an interpretation on it. Played on a clear, warm 1837 Erard, Oort's superlative performances of Chopin's Nocturnes may not beat the best ever recorded, but in context of his unsurpassed performances of Field, Alkan, and, it goes without saying, Dobrzynski, they are completely convincing and entirely satisfying. Brilliant's sound is clean and open.