Composer: Frédéric François Chopin
Performer: Janina Fialkowska
Format: FLAC
Label: Atma
Release: 2017
Size: 982 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 ‘Polonaise-fantaisie’
02. Nocturne No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3
03. Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2
04. Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51
05. Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2
06. Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42
07. Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54
Preludes (24), Op. 28
08. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor
09. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, “Raindrop”
10. Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Recorded: April 2016
Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin of the Palais Montcalm, Québec, Canada
On December 15, 1842, Frederic Chopin wrote to Breitkopf and Haertel, his publishers in Leipzig, offering them a newly composed Ballade and a Scherzo, and mentioning a new Impromptu. The pieces involved were the 4th Scherzo, the 4th Ballade, and the 3rd Impromptu, without a doubt three of the composer’s greatest works.
Janina Fialkowska’s third Chopin Recital album is built around these late works. Also included is Chopin’s final major work, the Polonaise-Fantaisie, a piece which stirs up wild and wishful speculations over the direction in which his compositional genius was heading before his fragile life came to its tragically premature end