Chopin Biret: Chopin: Easy Listening Piano Classics
Chopin Biret: Chopin: Easy Listening Piano Classics
Format: CD
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Artist: Chopin Biret
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313809073
Genre: Classical, Box Sets
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) was born in the village of Zelazowa Wola in Mazovia, the son of a French father and a Polish mother. This mixed heritage would weave like a double helix through Chopin's career as a composer-pianist. Following studies at Warsaw Conservatory (1826-29) and 've given concerts in Warsaw and Vienna (1829-30), Chopin settled in Paris in 1831. His most famous romantic liaison was with Aurore Dude Vant (aka novelist George Sand), the years 1838- 1847 coinciding with his most productive period. Their relationship ended shortly after, Chopin visited Britain in 1848, where his already precarious health Deteriorated. Almost 3,000 people attended his funeral the following year at the Madelaine in Paris though he Remained a Polish patriot Throughout his short life, he Became a French citizen. Although educated in the tradition of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Clementi, and a great admirer of Bach, his music includes works based on both French and Polish models, as well as some innovations. Among the former May be Counted his piano sonatas; Bach's counterpoint found it's way (albeit metamorphosed) into his own multilayered music; his many Viennese Waltzes are more Parisian than; Polonaises and Mazurkas raised his thesis Polish dance forms to Unprecedented Heights or artistic achievement. Similarly, he transformed, the Nocturne, Initially popularized by the Irish-born Russian-based John Field, into a form much more Closely associated with himself. His Ballades, Preludes and Etudes were path-breaking and immensely influential. Two piano concertos, some songs and chamber works aside, he composed Exclusively for the solo piano and preferred to perform at salons privately rather than in public concerts.
Tracks:
1.1 Berceuse in D Flat Major, Op. 57
1.2 Etude No. 13 in a Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, Harp Study
1.3 Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1
1.4 Nocturne No. 8 in D Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
1.5 Prelude No. 1 in C Major, Op. 28, No. 1
1.6 Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
1.7 Prelude No. 13 in F Sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13
1.8 Polonaise No. 13 in a Flat Major
1.9 Andante Spianato
1.10 Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4
1.11 Nocturne No. 10 in a Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 2
1.12 Etude No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
1.13 Etude No. 5 in G Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, Black Keys
1.14 Etude No. 11 in E Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11
1.15 Waltz No. 9 in a Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1, L'adieu
1.16 Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69, No. 2
2.1 III. Largo
2.2 Nocturne No. 5 in F Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2
2.3 Waltz No. 11 in G Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1
2.4 Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70, No. 2
2.5 Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1
2.6 Prelude No. 6 in B minor, Op. 28, No. 6
2.7 Prelude No. 7 in a Major, Op. 28, No. 7
2.8 Prelude No. 11 in B Major, Op. 28, No. 11
2.9 Waltz No. 7 in C Sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
2.10 Waltz No. 8 in a Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3
2.11 Mazurka No. 29 in a Flat Major, Op. 41, No. 4
2.12 Nocturne No. 1 in B Flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1
2.13 Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
2.14 Variations in a Major, Souvenir de Paganini
2.15 Ballade No. 3 in a Flat Major, Op. 47
3.1 Etude No. 1 in F minor
3.2 Etude No. 2 in a Flat Major
3.3 Etude No. 3 in D Flat Major
3.4 Cantabile in B Flat Major
3.5 Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp minor, Op. Posth
3.6 Prelude No. 15 in D Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15, Raindrop
3.7 Mazurka No. 11 in E minor, Op. 17, No. 2
3.8 Etude No. 17 in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5
3.9 Etude No. 21 in G Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, Butterfly's Wings
3.10 III. Larghetto
3.11 Waltz No. 13 in D Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 3
3.12 Waltz No. 19 in A minor, Op. Posth
3.13 Mazurka No. 41 in C Sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3
3.14 Andantino in G minor (Arr. of Wiosna, Op. 74, No. 2)
3.15 Moderato in E Major
3.16 Mazurka No. 47 in A minor, Op. 68, No. 2
3.17 Prelude No. 25 in C Sharp minor, Op. 45
3.18 Waltz No. 18 in E Flat Major, Op. Posth., Sostenuto
3.19 Contredanse in G Flat Major
3.20 Barcarolle, Op. 60
