Bernard d’Ascoli is a French pianist of great skill and musicianship, who has recorded for several companies. He is devoted to the music of Chopin, and his CD of the complete Scherzi and Impromptus was released on Athene early in 2005. This splendid new recording of the 21 Nocturnes shows consummate musicianship and is sold […]

Bernard d’Ascoli is a French pianist of great skill and musicianship, who has recorded for several companies. He is devoted to the music of Chopin, hence this new CD, which is accompanied by a 2 CD set of the complete Nocturnes (23201).

This ranks among the most remarkable of Chopin Nocturne recordings… performances of a living, breathing presence. The recordings are vivid and immediate. A revelatory, probing disc… D’Ascoli announces himself as a top-flight pianist. GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE MARCH 2006

Measures up very well, with the notes seeming to glow.

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