Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Jeremy Siepmann, Idil Biret, Maria Kliegel, Bernd Glemser
Orchestra: Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic, Orchestra Kosice
Number of Discs: 4
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8558001-04
Release: 2010
Size: 756 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Chopin and the soul of the piano
02. Music: Berceuse, Op. 57
03. Chopin the Pole
04. Music: Polonaise in G Minor
05. Early education
06. Music: Variations on a German Air
07. Encounters with the Polish peasantry
08. Music: Mazurka in G Major
09. Chopin as industrious pupil
10. Music: Sonata in C Minor (Opening)
11. He finds his true voice as a composer
12. Music: Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5
13. The fun-loving teenager
14. Music: Ecossaise, Op. 72, No. 3
15. Onset of illness and the death of a sister
16. Music: Nocturne in E Minor
17. ‘ Hats off, Gentlemen! A genius!’
18. Music: Variations on ‘ La ci darem la mano’, Op. 2
19. The influence of Paganini
20. Music: Souvenir de Paganini
21. The First Etudes
22. Music: Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4
23. Success in Vienna
24. Music: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor
25. Chopin in love
26. Music: Polonaise for cello and piano
27. Stagnation, celebrity and the first Concerto
28. Music: Concerto in F Minor, Op. 21
29. Return of vitality and inspiration
30. Music: Concerto in E Minor, Op. 11
31. Farewells and the final departure from Poland
CD 02
01. Europe and Chopin in crisis
02. Music: Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor
03. Arrival in Paris
04. Music: Waltz in e flat, Op. 18
05. Paris, politics, Poles and performance
06. Music: Impromptu in a flat, Op. 29
07. Chopin and the Opera
08. Music: Andante spianato, Op. 22
09. Chopin and Kalkbrenner
10. Music: Etude in G flat, Op. 10, No. 5
11. The cholera epidemic; the fashionable teacher
12. Music: Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, The ‘Revolutionary’
13. Teaching in earnest
14. Music: Etude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4
15. ‘Souplesse avant tout!’
16. Music: Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1
CD 03
01. The Wodzinska affair
02. Music: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1
03. ‘ an elegant, pale, sad young man ‘
04. Music: Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27, No. 2
05. George Sand and A Majorcan winter
06. Music: Preludes,Op. 28
07. Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice
08. Music: Mazurkas
09. At Nohant: An idyllic and creative summer
10. Music: Impromptu in F#
11. The Idyll continues
12. Music: Sonata in B-Flat Minor – Funeral March and finale
CD 04
01. The return to Paris
02. Music: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor
03. Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile
04. Music: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58-Finale
05. Failing health and mounting tensions
06. Music: Barcarolle, Op. 60
07. The break with Sand; illness; London
08. Music: Prelude in F sharp, Op. 28, No. 8
09. Scotland, London, Paris; decline and death
10. Music: Polonaise in a flat, Op. 53
