UNDER THE SKIN OF CHOPIN
Jul 23, 2021
3 minutes
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Barely out of her teens, Beatrice Rana took silver at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition in Texas. Agents and record labels saw and heard something special – and she made her debut in these pages as the cover artist of Pianist 87 in 2015. More than five years on, she has turned to repertoire of intensely personal significance for her fourth Warner Classics album: an all-Chopin affair, pairing the Etudes Op 25 with the Four Scherzos.
The coupling is unusual, if not unique on disc. ‘Of course,’ she acknowledges, ‘the most obvious thing is to programme
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