Stefan Irmer - John Field Complete Nocturnes Vol. 1

Simple melodies appealingly and tenderly hover over richly figured harmonies and seem to drift out into infinity. John Field is the author of these magical nocturnes, and one generationbefore the much more famous Pole (Chopin) he combinedstrongly expressive romanticism with an extraordinarykeyboard intuition. Stefan Irmer performs on volume 1 of the complete nocturnes of John Field.Field never viewed his works as finished; every time heperformed them he added something new to them � inspired by the circumstances, the public, and the atmosphere of the moment. For this reason, some of his nocturnes have been transmitted in significantly different versions.Stefan Irmer rises to this challenging piano adventure: employing musical means from our times, he continues Field's music, adding his own ideas to it. Influences from jazz and tango are also in evidence.