Paulina Viardot and Luigi Bordèse’s Chopin Mazurkas transcriptions attempted to bring the 19th c. style of vocal-instrumental chamber music closer to its then present-day listeners....

Paulina Viardot and Luigi Bordèse’s Chopin Mazurkas transcriptions attempted to bring the 19th c. style of vocal-instrumental chamber music closer to its then present-day listeners. Chopin’s settings to texts by Polish poets remain little known, particularly outside Poland; the transcriptions of his mazurkas for voice and piano, performed extremely rarely, have fallen almost into oblivion. Recorded using a historical Pleyel piano, these transcriptions aim to recreate the pleasurable listening atmosphere of those distant years.