Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott

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Reminiscence 00:00 Tools
Nocturne in G Minor 00:00 Tools
Letters Of A Traveller 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut - Nocturne In C Minor 00:00 Tools
Written In Stone 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No.3: Largo 00:00 Tools
Nocturne in C Sharp Minor 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop") 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 3: Largo 00:00 Tools
Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (feat. Mari Samuelsen) 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D-Flat Major "Raindrop" 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut / Nocturne in C Minor 00:00 Tools
Étude in E Minor (feat. Rubin Kodheli) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Prélude In D-Flat Major ("Raindrop") 00:00 Tools
Nocturne In C Sharp Minor (feat. Mari Samuelsen) 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D Flat Major (Raindrop) 00:00 Tools
Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No.3 - Largo 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D Flat Major ('Raindrop') 00:00 Tools
Etude in E Minor (feat. Rubin Kodheli) 00:00 Tools
Prelude in D flat major 'Raindrop' 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D-Flat Major 'Raindrop' 00:00 Tools
Prйlude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop") 00:00 Tools
Prelude In D Flat Major (Raindrop) 00:00 Tools
Nocturne in C Sharp Minor (ft. Mari Samuelsen) 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop"), Op.28, No.15 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 3 Largo 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut, Nocturne In C Minor 00:00 Tools
Prelude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop") 00:00 Tools
Prelude in D Flat Major ('Raindrop') 00:00 Tools
Nocturne In C Sharp Minor [feat. Mari Samuelsen] 00:00 Tools
Ólafur Arnalds: Verses 00:00 Tools
Ólafur Arnalds: Reminiscence 00:00 Tools
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3: Largo 00:00 Tools
Ólafur Arnalds: Letters Of A Traveller 00:00 Tools
Prelude in D Flat Major 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No.3; Largo 00:00 Tools
Étude in E Minor (feat. Rubin Kodheli) 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 3- Largo 00:00 Tools
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in G Minor 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut 00:00 Tools
Ólafur Arnalds: Eyes Shut - Nocturne in C Minor 00:00 Tools
Ólafur Arnalds: Written In Stone 00:00 Tools
1. Verses 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D-Flat Major "Raindrop""The Chopin Project" (2015) 00:00 Tools
Reminiscence"The Chopin Project" (2015) 00:00 Tools
Frédéric Chopin: Prélude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop") 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut\\Nocturne in C Minor 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D Flat Major (“Raindrop”) 00:00 Tools
Hans Zimmer 00:00 Tools
2. Piano Sonata No.3: Largo 00:00 Tools
4. Reminiscence 00:00 Tools
5. Nocturne in G Minor 00:00 Tools
8. Letters Of A Traveller 00:00 Tools
Prelude In D Flat Major (''Raindrop'') 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut Nocturne In C Minor 00:00 Tools
Prélude in D flat major "Raindrop" 00:00 Tools
Largo 00:00 Tools
Eyes Shut / Nocturne in C minor (after Chopin) 00:00 Tools
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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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.