Chopin Recital | Claves CD1719

Chopin Recital

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Label: Claves

Cat No: CD1719

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 13th October 2017

Contents

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
» no.4 in F minor, op.52
Mazurkas (51)
» (4) op.17
Nocturnes (21)
» no.9 in B major, op.32 no.1
» no.10 in A flat major, op.32 no.2
» no.13 in C minor, op.48 no.1
» no.14 in F sharp minor, op.48 no.2
Polonaise no.7 in A flat major, op.61 'Polonaise-Fantaisie'
Prelude no.25 in C sharp minor, op.45

Artists

Finghin Collins (piano)

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
» no.4 in F minor, op.52
Mazurkas (51)
» (4) op.17
Nocturnes (21)
» no.9 in B major, op.32 no.1
» no.10 in A flat major, op.32 no.2
» no.13 in C minor, op.48 no.1
» no.14 in F sharp minor, op.48 no.2
Polonaise no.7 in A flat major, op.61 'Polonaise-Fantaisie'
Prelude no.25 in C sharp minor, op.45

Artists

Finghin Collins (piano)

About

Chopin was a voluntary exile from his native Poland. Born into relative affluence in Żelazowa Wola west of Warsaw, his father Nicolas was French. Due partly to political upheaval, he left home when he was twenty. Staying for a while in Vienna, he secured a passport to Paris where he settled in October 1831. Once in situ, he became the idol of the aristocracy and was soon the friend of leading writers, painters and musicians. Yet, despite the glamorous and intellectual support of his surroundings, Chopin was lonely at heart. He expressed his nostalgia for Poland through his piano music in which he created a new idiom and performance technique.

Finghin Collins’s programme on this CD covers the major period of Chopin’s artistic activity and demonstrates the influence of Italian opera, particularly that of Bellini’s sophisticated bel canto style, and his own inherent dramatic impulses.

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