Chopin - The Essential Collection

Chopin - The Essential Collection represents the very best and notable works of this legendary Polish composer. Magnificent!


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Tracklist:

1. Nocturne Op.9 - No.2 (0:00)
2. Raindrop Prélude (2:17)
3. Étude Op. 25 - No.1 (7:15)
4. Minute Waltz (9:26)
5. Étude Op. 25 - No.2 (12:06)
6. Barcarolle - Op. 60 (13:40)
7. Étude Op. 25 - No.3 (21:15)
8. Ballad Op.38 - No.2 (22:35)
9. Grande Valse Brilliante (31:42)
10. Étude Op. 25 - No.4 (37:13)
11. Ballad Op.47 - No.3 (38:43)
12. Revolutionary Étude (44:53)
13. Étude Op. 25 - No.5 (48:18)
14. Scherzo Op.31 - No.2 (49:02)
15. Ballade Op.52 - No.4 - Op.57 (50:41)
16. Berceuse - Op.57 (58:02)
17. Étude Op. 25 - No.6 (1:08:00)
18. Heroic Polonaise (1:12:29)
19. Étude Op. 25 - No.12 (1:22:45)
20. Funeral March (1:24:39)

Bio:

Chopin was a Polish composer of the Romantic era. A child prodigy, Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw. He grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland, and there completed his musical education and composed many of his works before leaving Poland, aged 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.

All of Chopin’s compositions include the piano; most are for solo piano, although he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style, which is highly individual, is often technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of instrumental ballade; his major piano works also include sonatas, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, and preludes, some published only after his death.

Many contain elements of both Polish folk music and of the classical tradition of J.S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, whom he particularly admired. His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

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