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# Chopin: Project

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- **What is this?** Chopin: Project by Ólafur arnaldsalice sara ottfrédéric françois chopinn/a
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Award-winning young Icelandic pop/classical musician Ólafur Arnalds (celebrated composer of the score for TV series Broadchurch) has always loved the piano music of Frédéric Chopin, but he d grown weary of the uniform and standardized perfection of recordings. There has been no re-invention of the way Chopin s music has been presented since recording began, and I was longing for someone to come along and try something different. And one day, on a long flight to London, I thought: why don t I do it myself? And thus, in partnership with the acclaimed German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott, THE CHOPIN PROJECT was born.In order to achieve his aim, Arnalds developed an intimate, fragile and often charmingly imperfect sound using old/unusual/altered pianos captured on vintage recording equipment. He also employed various mixing techniques to re-enforce feelings of solitude or loneliness, and to create dreamlike ambient soundscapes. The listener should feel so close to the performer that he or she can hear each breath, or fragile touch of the keys.Ott was instantly hooked by the project. I love playing on out-of-tune bar pianos and, in my opinion, Chopin s music fits very well to those circumstances, she says. He wrote for intimate spaces, for living rooms, and he loved to improvise and improvisation flourishes in these kind of venues, where lots of things are happening, and the performer can respond to them.At the start of their project, Arnalds and Ott went piano hunting in Reykjavik, and found instruments with lots of personality . Some of them were prepared with felt to create otherworldly effects. Arnalds then recorded the pianist using vintage equipment, creating a very close-up, intimate setting for her performances. Sometimes there are creaks, breaths, jangling piano strings, rustles of paper in other words, the sounds of real life which are usually removed from Chopin recordings. The result after studio mixing - is a textured, multi-layered musical experience unlike any other.












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Classical music has always been very much about performance and interpretation - about that moment, in concert, when the performer interprets the composer s music in his own way. Then recording technology came along, and in classical it was all about capturing the live performance in the most accurate way. But I believe that when music has been channeled through all the machinery and processes that are part of making a recording, it is no longer all about that moment. It can t be. The act of recording becomes a ghost performer in itself, reflecting on the result in a way that is often unaccounted for or ignored.While The Beatles dragged pop music along by starting to use the recording technology as a part of the composition and performance, classical music was left to still somehow aim for the impossible. And the idea of what is considered an accurate and true sound became an unbreakable norm in itself.This norm never made much sense to me. Why not use the technology we have as not only a tool, but a part of the actual interpretation? Why can t the microphones, the room - the sound - also be a performer? Why would all of these factors need to stay invisible behind the norm of a true recording sound? And why would a good classical piano sound naturally have to be the silvery, brilliant concert grand sound that we have on classical recordings today, while we know that the pianos of the 19th century sounded so very different?All these are norms that I was interested to test. Alice was the perfect partner in this project. Her recording of Chopin s Waltzes has been a true inspiration for me. We spent a week exploring different microphones, pianos and venues all over Reykjavik, trying to find the perfect constellation for each of her interpretations. And then I tried to put them in a new context with my own recompositions, based on themes from Chopin s pieces. I wanted to make a dynamic and modern album with the originals and recompositions melting together to create one arc, one coherent storyline.Chopin's music has a very special meaning for me. When I was younger I was playing drums in various metal bands and all I wanted to listen to was punk and heavy metal music. But whenever I visited my grandmother, which I did frequently, she would always make me listen to Chopin. If it had been my parents forcing classical music down my throat at that time of my life I probably would have puked on their face. But I guess out of respect for my grandmother I always listened with her and slowly it started to grow on me.My last moment with my grandmother was on her deathbed, she was just lying there, old and sick, but very happy and proud. And I sat with her and we listened to a Chopin sonata. Then I kissed her goodbye and left. She passed away a few hours later.At that point I was already studying classical composition and experimenting, releasing and touring with all kinds of classically inspired music. But Chopin always kept this special place in my heart and I wanted to express that by making his music the center of this project. By looking at his music in a different way, through the prism of recording technique in its different facets and through my own compositions, I didn't intend to question the integrity of Chopin's music. I wanted to find my very personal interpretation, like so many other great musicians have done before me. --Ólafur Arnalds - January 2015

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## Customer Reviews

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    5 star music, 1 star pressing
  

*by K***. on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2019*

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   Terrible quality pressing, cracks, pops and distortion all the way, I've got worn and scratched 40yr old albums that sound better. I ordered a replacement thinking it's just a bad copy but the second one is identical, sadly I will be returning it for a full refund.

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    Mood swings
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2015*

What can one say about Ólafur Arnalds? He is an incredibly talented man probably most widely known now as the composer of the music to the highly successful British television series Broadchurch. That's how I found my way to him after noticing how distinctive the background music was in that series and then of course I discovered quite a back catalogue. The Chopin Project is his latest release along with pianist Alice Sara Ott. I can't claim any technical knowledge of classical music/classically-inspired music but much like previous (also excellent) recordings, this is a winner for me. How does one describe it? It's a collection of musical moods: inspiring, contemplative, meditative, melancholic, bittersweet, uplifting, delicate, insistent, always transforming. Musical ideas gain momentum like a gathering storm; at other times the compositions are like drops of water barely causing a ripple. I suppose at times Ólafur reminds me of Moby who also uses classical themes in his music but Ólafur's brand of melancholy has a little less bite. Ultimately this is music for a journey - not on foot but in spirit. Enjoy. Relish

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    Beautiful music, awful quality vinyl
  

*by N***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2020*

Difficult to rate this. The music is wonderful, definitely 5 stars - but the vinyl pressing is absolutely terrible, loads of surface noise, cracking and popping (1 star at best for the quality of the vinyl).If you want to fully enjoy this beautiful music, go for the CD or MP3 download options.

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