Elizabeth Joy Roe - John Field: Complete Nocturnes (2016)

They say the Irish composer John Field that he is the inventor of the night for piano, the great model for similar works of Chopin. "Nobody has been able to reproduce the charms of this caressing language, like a moist and tender look; rocking, as the peaceful return of rocking the boat, or pulses of a hammock that swings with such soft slowness, that sounds like its hull around the rustle of expiring embraces! "Liszt was wandering in the very flowery and long preface to his editions of Field's Nocturnes 1859 - forgetting the way, though, the Nocturnes of Chopin, but it was important to boast the least famous of the two is, … Always it that this music is an obvious foundation of a new kind piano issued any predetermined shape, as the rating of an improvisation. It is this improvised nature wants us to feel in his full eighteen Nocturnes Field, the state-unienne pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe, whose career is growing briskly around the planet, from Carnegie Hall to Teatro Colón, Kennedy Center at Seoul Arts Center in Korea: an artist with whom he now must count. Recorded in September 2015 at Potton Hall, Suffolk (England).

Tracklist:

01. Field: Nocturne No.1 in E Flat Major, H.24
02. Field: Nocturne No.2 in C Minor, H.25
03. Field: Nocturne No.3 in A Flat Major, H.26
04. Field: Nocturne No.4 in A Major, H.36
05. Field: Nocturne No.5 in B Flat Major, H.37
06. Field: Nocturne No.6 in F Major, 'Cradle Song', H.40
07. Field: Nocturne No.7 in A Major, H.14
08. Field: Nocturne No.8 in E Flat Major, H.30
09. Field: Nocturne No.9 in E Minor, H.46
10. Field: Nocturne No.10 in E Major "Nocturne Pastorale", H.54
11. Field: Nocturne No.11 in E Flat Major, H.56
12. Field: Nocturne No.12 in E Major "Nocturne Caractéristique: Noontide", H.13
13. Field: Nocturne No.13 in C Major "Rêverie-Nocturne", H.45
14. Field: Nocturne No.14 in G Major, H.58
15. Field: Nocturne No.15 in D Minor "Song without Words", H.59
16. Field: Nocturne No.16 in C Major, H.60
17. Field: Nocturne No.17 in C Major, H.61
18. Field: Nocturne No.18 in F Major, H.62