Album · 2001
Frédéric Chopin
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Chopin and the Soul of the Piano
Frédéric Chopin
1:49
2
Berceuse, op. 57
Frédéric Chopin
2:18
3
Chopin the Pole
Frédéric Chopin
1:49
4
Polonaise in G minor
Frédéric Chopin
1:05
5
Early Education
Frédéric Chopin
3:06
6
Variations on a German Air
Frédéric Chopin
1:34
7
Encounters With the Polish Peasantry
Frédéric Chopin
1:02
8
Mazurka in G major
Frédéric Chopin
1:13
9
Chopin as Industrious Pupil
Frédéric Chopin
0:58
10
Sonata in C minor (opening)
Frédéric Chopin
1:50
11
He Finds His True Voice as a Composer
Frédéric Chopin
1:50
12
Rondo à la mazur, op. 5
Frédéric Chopin
1:05
13
The Fun - Loving Teenager
Frédéric Chopin
1:17
14
Ecossaise, op. 72 no. 3
Frédéric Chopin
0:46
15
Onset of Illness and the Death of a Sister
Frédéric Chopin
2:05
16
Nocturne in E minor
Frédéric Chopin
4:32
17
"Hats Off, Gentlemen! A Genius!"
Frédéric Chopin
1:37
18
Variations on "Là ci darem la mano", op. 2
Frédéric Chopin
3:41
19
The Influence of Paganini
Frédéric Chopin
1:20
20
Souvenir de Paganini
Frédéric Chopin
2:11
21
The First Etudes
Frédéric Chopin
0:45
22
Etude in C-sharp minor, op. 10 no. 4
Frédéric Chopin
2:16
23
Success in Vienna
Frédéric Chopin
5:58
24
Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Frédéric Chopin
1:24
25
Chopin in Love
Frédéric Chopin
5:20
26
Polonaise for Cello and Piano
Frédéric Chopin
1:34
27
Stagnation, Celebrity and the First Concerto
Frédéric Chopin
2:18
28
Concerto in F minor, op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
1:42
29
Return of Vitality and Inspiration
Frédéric Chopin
5:10
30
Concerto in E minor, op. 11
Frédéric Chopin
10:50
31
Farewells and the Final Departure From Poland
Frédéric Chopin
1:38
Disc 2
1
Europe and Chopin in Crisis
Frédéric Chopin
7:43
2
Scherzo no. 1 in B minor
Frédéric Chopin
4:29
3
Arrival in Paris
Frédéric Chopin
2:24
4
Waltz in E-flat, op. 18
Frédéric Chopin
5:31
5
Paris, Politics, Poles and Performance
Frédéric Chopin
7:40
6
Impromptu in A-flat, op. 29
Frédéric Chopin
4:27
7
Chopin and the Opera
Frédéric Chopin
1:49
8
Andante spianato, op. 22
Frédéric Chopin
4:37
9
Chopin and Kalkbrenner
Frédéric Chopin
2:15
10
Etude in G-flat, op. 10 no. 5
Frédéric Chopin
1:47
11
The Cholera Epidemic; The Fashionable Teacher
Frédéric Chopin
7:53
12
Etude in C minor, op. 10 no. 12 "Revolutionary"
Frédéric Chopin
3:02
13
Teaching in Earnest
Frédéric Chopin
4:59
14
Etude in A minor, op. 25 no. 4
Frédéric Chopin
1:47
15
"Souplesse avant tout!"
Frédéric Chopin
2:25
16
Nocturne in B-flat minor, op. 9 no. 1
Frédéric Chopin
5:34
Disc 3
1
The Wodzinska Affair
Frédéric Chopin
3:44
2
Nocturne in B major, op. 32 no. 1
Frédéric Chopin
2:08
3
"An Elegant, Pale, Sad Young Man"
Frédéric Chopin
2:14
4
Nocturne in D-flat, op. 27 no. 2
Frédéric Chopin
6:11
5
George Sand and a Majorcan Winter
Frédéric Chopin
22:08
6
Preludes, op. 28
Frédéric Chopin
6:18
7
Misanthropy, Hypocrisy and Prejudice
Frédéric Chopin
3:38
8
Mazurkas
Frédéric Chopin
7:25
9
At Nohant: An Idyllic and Creative Summer
Frédéric Chopin
2:34
10
Impromptu in F-sharp
Frédéric Chopin
5:47
11
The Idyll Continues
Frédéric Chopin
4:58
12
Sonata in B-flat minor: Funeral March and Finale
Frédéric Chopin
10:42
Disc 4
1
The Return to Paris
Frédéric Chopin
2:27
2
Ballade no. 4 in F minor
Frédéric Chopin
12:11
3
Chopin Grows Moody, Petulant and Volatile
Frédéric Chopin
5:57
4
Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58: Finale
Frédéric Chopin
5:33
5
Failing Health and Mounting Tensions
Frédéric Chopin
4:35
6
Barcarolle, op. 60
Frédéric Chopin
8:43
7
The Break With Sand; Illness; London
Frédéric Chopin
12:34
8
Prelude in F-sharp, op. 28 no. 8
Frédéric Chopin
1:54
9
Scotland, London, Paris; Decline and Death
Frédéric Chopin
14:01
10
Polonaise in A-flat, op. 53
Frédéric Chopin
7:14
In print
First pressed 2001, still pressed 2010 — 2 pressings.
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