Frédéric Chopin Essentials

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Frédéric Chopin Essentials

From his teenage debut in Vienna to his premature death in 1849 in Paris, this Polish expatriate composer made his name on the piano. He was a virtuoso performer, a highly sought-after instructor to Parisian elite and a composer whose body of preludes, etudes and mazurkas are still a requirement for successive generations of prodigies. Soloists as distinct as Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini and Yuja Wang have all had to grapple with Chopin’s canon, which requires both formidable technical dexterity and delicate nuance.

Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 9 No. 2

4:46

Polonaise No. 6 in A-Flat, Op. 53 -"Heroic"

Vladimir Ashkenazy

6:15

No. 4 in E Minor. Largo

2:13

No. 1 in D-Flat Major "Minute"

Arthur Rubinstein

1:49

III. Rondo (Vivace)

Polish Festival Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman

9:53

Étude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 "Revolutionary"

Vladimir Horowitz

2:38

Grande Valse Brillante Op. 18, No. 1 in E-Flat Major

5:47

Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66

5:12

Allegro con brio

5:41

No. 12 in C Minor "Ocean". Allegro molto e con fuoco

Grigory Sokolov

2:43

No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse". Lento ma non troppo

Nikolai Lugansky

4:09

Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

10:04

III. Largo

Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline du Pré

3:59

Lento

Alexandre Tharaud

2:49

No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor. Tempo giusto

3:40

Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1

6:20

Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57

4:08

II. Larghetto

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov, Mikhail Pletnev

10:20

No. 15 in D-Flat Major. Sostenuto "Raindrop"

6:19

I. Andante spianato. Tranquillo

4:53

Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1

Mikhail Pletnev

11:05

Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat, Op. 27, No. 2

Maria João Pires

6:34

III. Marche funèbre. Lento

8:25

No. 4 in B-Flat Minor

Arthur Rubinstein

5:04

Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54

10:41

No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp"

2:25

Scherzo No. 3 in C Sharp Minor, Op.39 (1999 Digital Remaster)

Martha Argerich

7:08

Étude No. 10 in B Minor "Octaves"

3:52

Polonaise No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 44

Rafał Blechacz

9:23

Waltz No. 9 in A-Flat, Op. 69 No. 1 -"Farewell"

4:44

No. 2 in F Minor. Lento

Javier Perianes

2:01

No. 24 in D Minor. Allegro appassionato

Grigory Sokolov

2:41

Polonaises, Op. 26, No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor

Arthur Rubinstein

7:40

Molto vivace

Tamás Vásáry

2:01

No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor "Cello"

Daniel Barenboim

5:28

IV. Finale. Allegro

Gautier Capuçon, Yuja Wang

6:23

Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1

Maurizio Pollini

3:35

I. Maestoso

Paavo Järvi, Khatia Buniatishvili, Orchestre De Paris

13:13

Mesto

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

6:19

Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54

Benjamin Grosvenor

9:58

Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1

Daniel Barenboim

5:20

Rondo in C Major, Op. 73

Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan

8:46

Nocturne No. 1 in B Major, Op. 62

Vladimir Horowitz

6:51

II. Polonaise

8:39

1. Grave - Doppio movimento

7:50

Largo non troppo

NDR Symphony Orchestra, Jan Lisiecki, Krzysztof Urbański

4:55

Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49

12:03

Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth.

Menahem Pressler

4:37