Chopin: Etudes / Xi Zhai

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Haenssler Classic
Release Date
October 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin
    • PERFORMER
      Xi, Zhai
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 07, 2022
    • UPC
      881488220490
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HC22049
    • LABEL
      Haenssler Classic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    2. No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    3. No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    4. No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor Op. 10, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    5. No. 5 in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, "Black Keys"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    6. No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    7. No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    8. No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    9. No. 9 in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    10. No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 10

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    11. No. 11 in E-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    12. No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    13. No. 13 in A-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    14. No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    15. No. 15 in F Major, Op. 25, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    16. No. 16 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    17. No. 17 in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    18. No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    19. No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    20. No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    21. No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    22. No. 22 in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    23. No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    24. No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    25. No. 1 in F Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    26. No. 2 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai

    27. No. 3 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Xi Zhai


Chopin shaped his two extended cycles of études into a pianistic cosmos that has a unique place in the literature for piano. The études for solo piano feature many technical possibilities composed with an accomplished sense of style. However, the main focus in each of the compositions is musical expression. Mechanical passages are nowhere to be found. The rich timbres of Chopin’s virtuosity thus emerge as the basis for a nuanced tonal world blending Romantic sensibility with a manneristic stylistic approach. All in all: Chopin's études constitute a separate musical domain. They go beyond their own limits, reflecting on numerous other works by the composer in order to establish themselves as “stylistically anchored pillars” within his piano aesthetics. Chopin redefined the genre. Without his pianistic and tonal innovations, the originality of later études – one need only think of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy and Ligeti – would probably be unimaginable.