{"product_id":"basic-100-vol-20-chopin-favo","title":"BASIC 100 VOL 20 - CHOPIN FAVO","description":"Although this phenomenally popular body of music has attracted almost every important pianist of the last 150 years, its unlikely that Frédéric Chopin ever found, or will ever find, a more ideal interpreter than Artur Rubinstein... The key to Rubinstein's greatness as a Chopin interpreter was the combination of utter naturalness as a performer and his enormously sophisticated musical mind. Nothing ever seems forced or premeditated: there are no sharp edges or sudden flashes of insight. In fact,the illusion the performances create is one of the music flowing, without benefit of a human intermediary, directly from Chopin's heart to the listener's... At almost every moment in these classic recordings, Rubinstein discovers some wonder of color or phrasing, brings out a beautiful inner voice it seems we've never heard before, and in general creates the impression of a man for whom playing this often fiendishly difficult music is no more difficult than breathing or making love. -- Jim Sveda, from The Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire [reviewing the 11-CD box set of Chopin recordings by Artur Rubinstein, \u003ca class=\"links\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkivmusic.com\/classical\/album.jsp?album_id=171027\"\u003eRCA 260822\u003c\/a\u003e]","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49606158188824,"sku":"090266171729","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/3891807.jpg?v=1777616854","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/basic-100-vol-20-chopin-favo","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}