The Marian Consort & Rory McCleery - Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks (2015)

The reviews that greeted Vol II of David Wildes Chopin last year spoke of his playing as vast, monumental, inexorable a wealth of colour and detail, all in service of an overarching design of crystal clarity (International Record Review). Wilde, wrote Bryce Morrison in Gramophone, scorns all easy facility, presenting Chopin not as the familiar salon dandy but as an epic, gnarled and rugged genius shaking his fist at the universe with all the defiance of King Lear. BBC Radio 3s CD Review concurred: The space that he gives the music is extraordinary This is on a grand scale. Here is a further instalment of this extraordinary Chopin journey. As he sat down to record the B flat minor Scherzo, Wilde said to Delphian producer Paul Baxter: Ive been playing this piece for 73 years I dont think I need a score! This is Chopin absorbed and reshaped: the radical expressive outcome of a lifetimes involvement with this inexhaustible composer.