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Chopin: Etudes / Xi Zhai

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Composer: Frederic Chopin
Artist: Xi, Zhai
Format: CD
Label: Haenssler Classic
Released: Oct 07, 2022
Catalog #: HC22049
UPC: 881488220490

About

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.

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Tracklist 27 tracks

1 No. 1 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1 02:11

Track
1

Title
No. 1 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1
Duration
02:11
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
2 No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2 01:24

Track
2

Title
No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 10, No. 2
Duration
01:24
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
3 No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3 03:53

Track
3

Title
No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3
Duration
03:53
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
4 No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor Op. 10, No. 4 01:58

Track
4

Title
No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor Op. 10, No. 4
Duration
01:58
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
5 No. 5 in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, "Black Keys" 01:44

Track
5

Title
No. 5 in G-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5, "Black Keys"
Duration
01:44
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
6 No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6 02:42

Track
6

Title
No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 10, No. 6
Duration
02:42
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
7 No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7 01:35

Track
7

Title
No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7
Duration
01:35
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
8 No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8 02:27

Track
8

Title
No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
Duration
02:27
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
9 No. 9 in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9 02:14

Track
9

Title
No. 9 in F Minor, Op. 10, No. 9
Duration
02:14
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
10 No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 10 02:14

Track
10

Title
No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 10
Duration
02:14
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
11 No. 11 in E-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11 02:35

Track
11

Title
No. 11 in E-Flat Major, Op. 10, No. 11
Duration
02:35
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
12 No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary" 02:54

Track
12

Title
No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary"
Duration
02:54
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
13 No. 13 in A-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study" 02:21

Track
13

Title
No. 13 in A-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, "Harp Study"
Duration
02:21
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
14 No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2 01:32

Track
14

Title
No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 25, No. 2
Duration
01:32
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
15 No. 15 in F Major, Op. 25, No. 3 01:58

Track
15

Title
No. 15 in F Major, Op. 25, No. 3
Duration
01:58
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
16 No. 16 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4 01:53

Track
16

Title
No. 16 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4
Duration
01:53
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
17 No. 17 in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5 03:04

Track
17

Title
No. 17 in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5
Duration
03:04
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
18 No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6 02:07

Track
18

Title
No. 18 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6
Duration
02:07
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
19 No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 04:57

Track
19

Title
No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7
Duration
04:57
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
20 No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8 01:12

Track
20

Title
No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 8
Duration
01:12
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
21 No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings" 00:59

Track
21

Title
No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"
Duration
00:59
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
22 No. 22 in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10 04:14

Track
22

Title
No. 22 in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10
Duration
04:14
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
23 No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind" 03:24

Track
23

Title
No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, "Winter Wind"
Duration
03:24
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
24 No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12 02:58

Track
24

Title
No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12
Duration
02:58
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
25 No. 1 in F Minor 02:06

Track
25

Title
No. 1 in F Minor
Duration
02:06
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
26 No. 2 in A-Flat Major 01:46

Track
26

Title
No. 2 in A-Flat Major
Duration
01:46
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai
27 No. 3 in D-Flat Major 02:11

Track
27

Title
No. 3 in D-Flat Major
Duration
02:11
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Performer
Xi Zhai