50 Best Chopin
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Label: EMI - 50 Best
Cat No: 6316662
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Release Date: 6th September 2010
Contents
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Works
About
Chopin is universally acclaimed as one of the most original and innovative composers of music for the piano, especially in the romantic and lyrical field, but his compositions also demand brilliant technical virtuosity.
The 50 Best series offers an impressive assortment of well-known and beloved classical repertoire featuring performances by great artists from Menuhin to Kennedy, Callas to Te Kanawa. Each release on the 50 Best series is grouped thematically across 3 CDs. Spectacular value and an amazingly low price on one of the world's most respected classical labels.
Contents:
CD 1
1. Waltz no.1 in E flat major, op.18
2. Waltz no.2 in A flat major, op.34 no.1 ('Valse Brillante')
3. Waltz no.3 in A minor, op.34 no.2
4. Waltz no.4 in F major, op.34 no.3 ('Valse Brillante')
5. Waltz no.5 in A flat major, op.42 ('Grande Valse')
- Stephen Kovacevich
6. Waltz no.6 in D flat major, op.64 no.1 'Minute'
7. Waltz no.7 in C sharp minor, op.64 no.2
8. Waltz no.8 in A flat major, op.64 no.3
- Ingrid Fliter
9. Waltz no.9 in A flat major, op.69 no.1
10. Waltz no.10 in B minor, op.69 no.2
- Dmitri Alexeev
11. Waltz no.11 in G flat major, op.70 no.1
12. Waltz no.12 in F minor, op.70 no.2
13. Waltz no.13 in D flat major, op.70 no.3
14. Waltz no.14 in E minor, op. posth.
- Dinu Lipatti
15. Berceuse in D flat major, op.57
- Daniel Barenboim
16. Ballade no.3 in A flat major, op.47
- Cécile Ousset
17. Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor
- Stansilav Bunin
CD 2
1-24. Preludes, op.28
- Garrick Ohlsson
25. Barcarolle in F sharp minor, op.60
- Nelson Goerner
26. Polonaise no.3 in A major, op.40 no.1 'Military'
- Daniel Adni
27. Polonaise no.6 in A flat major, op.53 'Heroic'
- Martha Argerich
CD 3
1. Variations in B flat major on 'Là ci darem', op.2
- Alexis Weissenberg, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
2-3. Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11: II. Romanze (Larghetto) - III. Rondo (Vivace)
- Maurizio Pollini, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Kletzki
4. Piano Concerto no.2 in F minor, op.21: II. Larghetto
- Martha Argerich, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit
5. Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise in E flat major, op.22
- Alexis Weissenberg, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
6. Krakowiak, op.14
- Garrick Ohlsson, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk
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