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Author(s): Siepmann, Jeremy
Composer(s): Chopin, Fryderyk
Artist(s): Siepmann, Jeremy
Label: Naxos Educational
Genre: Music Biographies
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.558001-04
Barcode: 0636943800126
Release Date: 03/2001
Life and Works: CHOPIN (Siepmann)
Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music – his waltzes, mazurkas, études, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much more. Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, and his death at the age of 49 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Chopin, Fryderyk
Siepmann, Jeremy - Author
Siepmann, Jeremy - Author
|  | 1 | Chopin and the soul of the piano | 01:49 |
| | 2 | Music: Berceuse, Op. 57 | 02:17 |
| | 3 | Chopin the Pole | 01:48 |
| | 4 | Music: Polonaise in G Minor | 01:04 |
| | 5 | Early education | 03:05 |
| | 6 | Music: Variations on a German Air | 01:33 |
| | 7 | Encounters with the Polish peasantry | 01:02 |
| | 8 | Music: Mazurka in G Major | 01:13 |
| | 9 | Chopin as industrious pupil | 00:58 |
| | 10 | Music: Sonata in C Minor (Opening) | 01:49 |
| | 11 | He finds his true voice as a composer | 01:50 |
| | 12 | Music: Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5 | 01:05 |
| | 13 | The fun-loving teenager | 01:17 |
| | 14 | Music: Ecossaise, Op. 72, No. 3 | 00:45 |
| | 15 | Onset of illness and the death of a sister | 02:05 |
| | 16 | Music: Nocturne in E Minor | 04:32 |
| | 17 | ' Hats off, Gentlemen! A genius!' | 01:36 |
| | 18 | Music: Variations on ' La ci darem la mano', Op. 2 | 03:41 |
| | 19 | The influence of Paganini | 01:19 |
| | 20 | Music: Souvenir de Paganini | 02:10 |
| | 21 | The First Etudes | 00:44 |
| | 22 | Music: Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10, No. 4 | 02:15 |
| | 23 | Success in Vienna | 05:58 |
| | 24 | Music: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor | 01:23 |
| | 25 | Chopin in love | 05:19 |
| | 26 | Music: Polonaise for cello and piano | 01:33 |
| | 27 | Stagnation, celebrity and the first Concerto | 02:18 |
| | 28 | Music: Concerto in F Minor, Op. 21 | 01:42 |
| | 29 | Return of vitality and inspiration | 05:10 |
| | 30 | Music: Concerto in E Minor, Op. 11 | 10:49 |
| | 31 | Farewells and the final departure from Poland | 01:38 |
Disc 2
| | 1 | Europe and Chopin in crisis | 07:43 |
| | 2 | Music: Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor | 04:28 |
| | 3 | Arrival in Paris | 02:24 |
| | 4 | Music: Waltz in E flat, Op. 18 | 05:31 |
| | 5 | Paris, politics, Poles and performance | 07:40 |
| | 6 | Music: Impromptu in A flat, Op. 29 | 04:27 |
| | 7 | Chopin and the Opera | 01:49 |
| | 8 | Music: Andante spianato, Op. 22 | 04:37 |
| | 9 | Chopin and Kalkbrenner | 02:15 |
| | 10 | Music: Etude in G flat, Op. 10, No. 5 | 01:47 |
| | 11 | The cholera epidemic; the fashionable teacher | 07:52 |
| | 12 | Music: Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, the 'Revolutionary' | 03:02 |
| | 13 | Teaching in earnest | 04:58 |
| | 14 | Music: Etude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 4 | 01:47 |
| | 15 | 'Souplesse avant tout!' | 02:24 |
| | 16 | Music: Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9, No. 1 | 05:34 |
Disc 3
| | 1 | The Wodzinska affair | 03:43 |
| | 2 | Music: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1 | 02:08 |
| | 3 | ' An elegant, pale, sad young man ' | 02:14 |
| | 4 | Music: Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27, No. 2 | 06:10 |
| | 5 | George Sand and A Majorcan winter | 22:08 |
| | 6 | Music: Preludes,Op. 28 | 06:17 |
| | 7 | Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice | 03:38 |
| | 8 | Music: Mazurkas | 07:25 |
| | 9 | At Nohant: an idyllic and creative summer | 02:33 |
| | 10 | Music: Impromptu in F# | 05:47 |
| | 11 | The Idyll continues | 04:57 |
| | 12 | Music: Sonata in B-Flat Minor - Funeral March and finale | 10:41 |
Disc 4
| | 1 | The return to Paris | 02:27 |
| | 2 | Music: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor | 12:11 |
| | 3 | Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile | 05:57 |
| | 4 | Music: Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58-Finale | 05:33 |
| | 5 | Failing health and mounting tensions | 04:34 |
| | 6 | Music: Barcarolle, Op. 60 | 08:42 |
| | 7 | The break with Sand; illness; London | 12:33 |
| | 8 | Music: Prelude in F sharp, Op. 28, No. 8 | 01:53 |
| | 9 | Scotland, London, Paris; decline and death | 14:01 |
| | 10 | Music: Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53 | 07:13 |
Total Playing Time: 04:56:50