Frédéric Chopin | Requiem

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1.	Prélude 4 04:04	buy track
2.	Prélude 20 04:31	buy track
3.	Prélude 9 05:38	buy track
4.	Marche Funèbre 07:40	buy track
5.	Prélude 7 04:05	buy track
6.	Prelude 3 04:46	buy track

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In early 2012, Grim decided to start working on a third album, with adaptations of Frédéric Chopin’s well-known Préludes. Traditionally, preludes had been informal finger exercises, designed as a warm-up for the performer, but Chopin transfigured them into a fully-fledged art form. Most of the Préludes were written by Chopin in late 1838 and early 1839 during a miserable winter spent on the island of Mallorca with his notorious mistress George Sand. This origin can be heard in the atmosphere of the pieces, which are filled with either bliss or gloom. Chopin’s Préludes sing of hope and desire, but also of sad hearts, lost love, homesickness, and dark desperation. One of Chopin’s friends, Robert Schumann, once described them as ‘feverish and broken sketches (…) or ruins perhaps (…), all disorder and wild confusion.’

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released May 4, 2018

Recorded at Grimhouse October 2016 by Thomas De Mot

Produced and mixed by Thomas De Mot

Mastered at EQuuS

Artwork by Fred Feyfer

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Grim Leuven, Belgium

Grim is a Belgian trio (Rhodes, guitar & drums) who elevate classical music to post-rock. The band attracted attention with their two previous albums: one exploring Erik Satie’s famous Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, and another devoted to Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina and Spiegel im Spiegel. Now Grim returns with a third album, Requiem, based on the Préludes and Marche Funèbre by Frédéric Chopin. ... more

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