Details: This new album by Charles Richard-Hamelin presents two important works from Frederic Chopin's repertoire, 24 Preludes, Op. 28 and Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22, and confirms that he is one of the world's elite pianists. Writing about Richard-Hamelin, BBC Music Magazine characterized his playing as "fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive... a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication." Qualities that are made evident on this brilliant new album. Charles Richard-Hamelin is well known on the international music scene as a "highly sensitive" pianist (Gramophone), driven by "a great depth of feeling without the slightest pretense" (Le Devoir). He is recognized as "fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive... a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication" (BBC Music Magazine).