Filming / Tamsin Waley-Cohen / Huw Watkins / Musikverein, Vienna
Photoshoot & Recording Sessions / Alpesh Chauhan / Parma, Italy
Filming / Muza Rubackyte / Salle Gaveau, Paris
Filming / AAM / Barbican Hall, London
Photoshoot / Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano
Recording Sessions / ASMF / Arthur & Lucas Jussen
Photoshoot / Natalya Romaniw / Soprano
Photoshoot & CD Sessions / Daniel Rowland
Filming & CD Sessions / Francesca Dego / CBSO / Symphony Hall

Audio Projects - Chopin – Lara Melda

Project Type: CD recording
Client: Champs Hill
Artists: Lara Melda
Repertoire: Chopin
Producer & Engineer: Patrick Allen
Venue: Champs Hill Studio, Sussex

From the opening bars of the Op 9 No 1 Nocturne, the sound that Melda produces beguiles the ear with beautifully balanced, long-breathed cantabile phrases, played with no idiosyncratic interventions, and in short capturing the essence of what a nocturne should be … Piano sound is warm and ideally focussed (the disc is produced, engineered and edited by Patrick Allen)… All in all, a fine Chopin recital that is a cut above the average Gramophone

Melda clearly understands the narrational aspect of Chopin. Structurally, too, she comprehends the importance of maintaining tension in the First Ballade’s lyrical contrasts. She encourages us to hear the Nocturnes as micro-Ballades, supported by engineering that does her subtleties full justice. Melda is a major talent International Piano

Very well recorded – Patrick Allen as producer, engineer and editor… this release can be heartily recommended Pianist

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