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Nocturnes for Piano (1)

Nocturnes for Piano (1)
Artist Various Artists
Format 11 CD
Cat. number 97480
EAN code 5028421974804
Release September 2025

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The largest collection of piano nocturnes on CD, celebrating the art of the romantic piano song without words. Over a century of repertoire in all modern recordings, plus a new booklet essay exploring the history and context of the nocturne.
Composers of the 18th century such as Haydn and Mozart wrote notturnos as serenades to be sung and played at night time, both on an operatic stage and as independent pieces for entertainment. The early 19th century saw a rapid evolution in the technological, the cultural and the musical development of the piano – as an instrument of longer sustaining power and greater volume than before, offering a broader palette of tone-colours, presenting composers with the potential to write quasi-orchestrally for a single instrument, as Baroque composers had done for the organ.
At the same time, musical forms were becoming looser, more shaped by extra-musical inspirations in literature, poetry and the natural world. The Irish composer John Field was the first to publish nocturnes for the solo piano as standalone works, rather than as poetic interludes within larger pieces such as suites or sonatas. Having inherited the form from Field, Frederic Chopin then raised the nocturne to new heights of inward expression.
As much as the salon became a place for pianistic display of technique, it also became a space for quiet soliloquy through the course of the 19th century, accessible to the rapidly expanding bourgeoisie with access to an instrument at home and to the education required to play it. Thus publishers commissioned nocturnes from both greater and lesser composers to satisfy an ever-growing market. The nocturnes in this box cover all the great names of Romantic-era piano writing, and many lesser-known ones too. Many of the performances are played on instruments of the period, enabling listeners to immerse themselves into a 19th-century world of softer and more gentle colours and expression.
This new box also features an essay by Peter Quantrill outlining the history of the nocturne and its lasting hold upon our affections and imaginations.
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Track list

Disk 1

  1. John Field: Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat Major, H 24
  2. John Field: Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor, H 25
  3. John Field: Nocturne No. 3 in A-Flat Major, H 26
  4. John Field: Nocturne No. 4 in A Major, H 36
  5. John Field: Nocturne No. 5 in B-Flat Major, H 37
  6. John Field: Nocturne No. 6 in F Major, H 40
  7. John Field: Nocturne No. 7 in C Major, H 45
  8. John Field: Nocturne No. 8 in A Major, H 14E
  9. John Field: Nocturne No. 9 in E-flat Major, H 30A
  10. John Field: Nocturne No. 10 in E Minor, H 46

Disk 2

  1. John Field: Nocturne No. 11 in E-Flat Major, H 56
  2. John Field: Nocturne No. 12 in G Major, H 58D
  3. John Field: Nocturne No. 13 in D Minor, H 59
  4. John Field: Nocturne No. 14 in C Major, H 60
  5. John Field: Nocturne No. 15 in C Major, H 61
  6. John Field: Nocturne No. 16 in F Major, H 62
  7. John Field: Nocturne No. 17 in E Major, H 54
  8. John Field: Nocturne No. 18 “Midi” in E Major, H 13K

Disk 3

  1. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9 No. 3
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15 No. 1
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15 No. 2
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 6 in G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3
  7. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27 No. 2
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32 No. 1
  10. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2

Disk 4

  1. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 37 No. 1
  2. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 12 in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2
  3. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1
  4. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48 No. 2
  5. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1
  6. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 16 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2
  7. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62 No. 1
  8. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62 No. 2
  9. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (posthumous)
  10. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posthumous
  11. Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne C minor (1837, pub 1938)

Disk 5

  1. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 1 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1
  2. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 2 in B Major, Op. 33 No. 2
  3. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 33 No. 3
  4. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36
  5. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 37
  6. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 63
  7. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74
  8. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 84 No. 8
  9. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 9 in B Minor, Op. 97
  10. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 99
  11. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 11 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 104 No. 1
  12. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107
  13. Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119

Disk 6

  1. Michael Glinka: Nocturne in F Minor, la séparation
  2. Michael Glinka: Nocturne in E-Flat Major
  3. Karl Eduard Hartknoch: Nocturne in B Minor, Op. 8 No. 2
  4. Anton Rubinstein: Nocturne in G-Flat Major, Op. 28 No. 1
  5. Anton Rubinstein: Nocturne in G Major, Op. 69 No. 2
  6. Anton Rubinstein: Nocturne in A-Flat Major, Op. 71 No. 1
  7. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in F Major, Op. 10 No. 1
  8. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 No. 4
  9. Alexander Scriabin: Nocturne in A-Flat Major, WoO 3
  10. Alexander Scriabin: Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 5 No. 1
  11. Alexander Scriabin: Nocturne in A Major, Op. 5 No. 2
  12. Alexander Scriabin: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
  13. Konstantin Antipov: Nocturne in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 6 No. 2
  14. Konstantin Antipov: Nocturne in A-Flat Major, Op. 12
  15. Alexander Glazunov: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 37
  16. Vasily Kalinnikov: Nocturne in F-Sharp Minor No. 3

Disk 7

  1. Charles Henri Valentin Alkan: Nocturne No. 1, Op. 22
  2. Claude Debussy: Nocturne in D-Flat Major
  3. Louis Vierne: Nocturne, Op. 35 No. 3
  4. Reynaldo Hahn: Notturno alla italiana
  5. Reynaldo Hahn: Tristesse nocturne, l’oiseau de nuit
  6. Reynaldo Hahn: Rêverie nocturne sur le Bosphore
  7. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: I. Sans traîner
  8. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: II. Très animé “bal des jeunes filles”
  9. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: III. Modéré mais sans lenteur “les cloches de Malines”
  10. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: IV. Lent, très las et piano “bal fantôme”
  11. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: V. Presto misterioso “phalènes”
  12. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: VI. Très calme mais sans traîner
  13. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: VII. Assez allant
  14. Francis Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56: VIII. Très modéré “pour servir de coda au cycle”
  15. Erik Satie: Nocturnes (1919): I. Doux et calme
  16. Erik Satie: Nocturnes (1919): II. Simplement
  17. Erik Satie: Nocturnes (1919): III. Un peu mouvementé
  18. Erik Satie: Nocturnes (1919): IV. No. 4
  19. Erik Satie: Nocturnes (1919): V. No. 5
  20. Louis Aubert: 3 Esquisses, Op. 7: II. Nocturne
  21. Germaine Tailleferre: Notturno (Andantino) from partita pour piano

Disk 8

  1. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Nocturne in F Major
  2. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Nocturne in F-sharp Minor
  3. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Nocturne in C Minor
  4. Anton Rubinstein: Nocturne sur l’eau (moderato) from 3 Characteristic Pices, Op. 9
  5. Anton Rubinstein: Nocturne (moderato assai) from 6 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 50
  6. Mily Balakirev: Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor
  7. Mily Balakirev: Nocturne No. 2 in B Minor
  8. Mily Balakirev: Nocturne No. 3 in D Minor
  9. Alexander Borodin: Petite Suite: VII. Nocturne. Andantino
  10. Edvard Hagerup Grieg: Nocturne Op. 54 No. 4
  11. Dora Pejačević: 2 Nocturnes: I. Sehr ruhig
  12. Dora Pejačević: 2 Nocturnes: II. Leicht bewegt
  13. George Enescu: Suite No. 3, Op. 18: VII. Carillon nocturne

Disk 9

  1. Fanny Mendelssohn: Nocturne in G Minor, H.337
  2. Fanny Mendelssohn: Nocturne Napolitano in B Minor
  3. Clara Schumann: Soirées musicales, Op.6: II. Notturno
  4. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20
  5. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne No. 2 in G Major, Op. 20
  6. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 20
  7. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne in B Major “per l’album di Bellini”
  8. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 31
  9. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne in E Major, Op. 33
  10. Giovanni Sgambati: Nocturne in G Major
  11. Giuseppe Martucci: 2 Notturni, Op. 70: I. No. 1 in G-Flat Major. Moderato
  12. Giuseppe Martucci: 2 Notturni, Op. 70: II. No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor. Andantino
  13. Amilcare Ponchielli: Notturno in A-Flat Major, Op. 93: I. Andantino

Disk 10

  1. Amy Beach: Nocturne, Op. 107 (1924)
  2. Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Notturno from Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6
  3. Francesco Cilea: Notturno, Op. 22
  4. Ottorino Respighi: 6 Pieces for Piano, P044: III. Notturno
  5. Sergei Bortkiewicz: 3 Morceaux, Op. 24: I. Nocturne (Diana)
  6. Sergei Rachmaninoff: 7 Morceaux de salon, Op. 10: I. Nocturne
  7. Franz Liszt: En rêve, nocturne, S.207
  8. Franz Liszt: Nocturne No. 3 – Liebestraum in A-Flat Major
  9. Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage I, S.160: IX. Les cloches de Genève (Nocturne)
  10. Charles Henri Valentin Alkan: Nocturne No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 57
  11. Charles Henri Valentin Alkan: Nocturne No. 3 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 57
  12. Josef Bohuslav Foerster: I. Notturno from 2 Pieces for the Left Hand Dvě skladby pro klavír levou rukou, Op. 142

Disk 11

  1. Camille Pleyel: Nocturne alla Field in B-Flat Major
  2. Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Nocturne in A-Flat Major, Op. 121 No. 1
  3. Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Nocturne in F Major, Op. 121 No. 2
  4. Clara Schumann: Nocturne in F Major, Op. 6 No. 2
  5. Louis Lefèbure-Wély: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 54
  6. Edmond Weber: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 1
  7. Charles-Valentin Alkan: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 22
  8. Charles-Valentin Alkan: Notturnino innamorato in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 63 No. 43
  9. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: Nocturne in E-Flat Major
  10. Maria Szymanowska: La murmure Nocturne in A-Flat Major
  11. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 21 No. 1
  12. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 21 No. 2
  13. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 24 No. 1
  14. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 24 No. 2
  15. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski: Pozegnanie Nocturne in G Minor
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