Easy-Listening Piano Classics: Chopin

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHOPIN, FREDERIC
    • PERFORMER
      Idil Biret
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 28, 2010
    • UPC
      747313809073
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8578090-92
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    3. Polonaise No. 8 in D Minor, Op. 71, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    4. Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    5. Prelude No. 1 in C Major, Op. 28, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    6. Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    7. Prelude No. 13 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    8. Polonaise No. 13 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    9. Andante spianato

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    10. Mazurka No. 49 in F Minor, Op. 68, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    11. Nocturne No. 10 in A-Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    15. Waltz No. 9 in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1, "L'adieu"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    16. Waltz No. 10 in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    17. III. Largo

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    18. Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    19. Waltz No. 11 in G-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    20. Waltz No. 12 in F Minor, Op. 70, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    21. Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    22. Prelude No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    23. Prelude No. 7 in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    24. Prelude No. 11 in B Major, Op. 28, No. 11

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    25. Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    26. Waltz No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    27. Mazurka No. 29 in A-Flat Major, Op. 41, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    28. Nocturne No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    29. Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    30. Variations in A Major, "Souvenir de Paganini"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    31. Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    32. Etude No. 1 in F Minor

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    33. Etude No. 2 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    34. Etude No. 3 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    35. Cantabile in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    36. Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth.

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    37. Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15, "Raindrop"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    38. Mazurka No. 11 in E Minor, Op. 17, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

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

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    41. III. Larghetto

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    42. Waltz No. 13 in D-Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    43. Waltz No. 19 in A Minor, Op. posth.

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    44. Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    45. Andantino in G Minor (arr. of Wiosna, Op. 74, No. 2)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    46. Moderato in E Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    47. Mazurka No. 47 in A Minor, Op. 68, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    48. Prelude No. 25 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    49. Waltz No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. posth., "Sostenuto"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    50. Contredanse in G-Flat Major

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret

    51. Barcarolle, Op. 60

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: İdil Biret


Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) was born in the village of Zelazowa Wola in Mazovia, the son of a French father and a Polish mother. This mixed heritage would weave like a double helix through Chopin's career as a composer-pianist. Following studies at Warsaw Conservatory (1826-29) and 've given concerts in Warsaw and Vienna (1829-30), Chopin settled in Paris in 1831. His most famous romantic liaison was with Aurore Dude Vant (aka novelist George Sand), the years 1838- 1847 coinciding with his most productive period. Their relationship ended shortly after, Chopin visited Britain in 1848, where his already precarious health Deteriorated. Almost 3,000 people attended his funeral the following year at the Madelaine in Paris though he Remained a Polish patriot Throughout his short life, he Became a French citizen. Although educated in the tradition of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Clementi, and a great admirer of Bach, his music includes works based on both French and Polish models, as well as some innovations. Among the former May be Counted his piano sonatas; Bach's counterpoint found it's way (albeit metamorphosed) into his own multilayered music; his many Viennese Waltzes are more Parisian than; Polonaises and Mazurkas raised his thesis Polish dance forms to Unprecedented Heights or artistic achievement. Similarly, he transformed, the Nocturne, Initially popularized by the Irish-born Russian-based John Field, into a form much more Closely associated with himself. His Ballades, Preludes and Etudes were path-breaking and immensely influential. Two piano concertos, some songs and chamber works aside, he composed Exclusively for the solo piano and preferred to perform at salons privately rather than in public concerts.