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Chopin: Ballades & Impromptus
Hungaroton

Chopin: Ballades & Impromptus

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Composer
CHOPIN, FREDERIC
Artist
Gabor Farkas
Format
CD
Label
Hungaroton
Released
Jul 19, 2019
Catalog #
HCD32829
UPC
5991813282927

About

The piano-ballade is Chopin's invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopin's free improvisations, (improvisations: "impromptu") were seemingly "piano pieces" without genre; individual pieces for performance, longer than the nocturnes but shorter than the ballades or scherzos. "His compositions were all but pale shadows of his improvisations,' wrote Georges Sand. The highly-regarded Hungarian-born pianist Gábor Farkas has, in the decade since winning the International Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar alongside the coveted Audience Prize in the same competition in 2009, come to be recognized internationally as a wholly exceptional artist.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 09:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
    Duration
    09:07
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  2. 2 Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38 07:28
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
    Duration
    07:28
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  3. 3 Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47 07:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47
    Duration
    07:41
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  4. 4 Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 11:36
    Track
    4
    Title
    Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
    Duration
    11:36
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  5. 5 Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29 03:57
    Track
    5
    Title
    Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  6. 6 Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36 05:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  7. 7 Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51 06:07
    Track
    7
    Title
    Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas
  8. 8 Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 05:28
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Gábor Farkas