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Life and Works - Frédéric Chopin

This selection contains narration by Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, Elaine Claxton and Karen Archer about Chopin's life and works

Idil Biret, Maria Kliegel & Bernd Glemser

Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic & Orchestra Kosice

Life and Works - Frédéric Chopin

Life and Works - Frédéric Chopin

This selection contains narration by Jeremy Siepmann, Anton Lesser, Neville Jason, Elaine Claxton and Karen Archer about Chopin's life and works

Idil Biret, Maria Kliegel & Bernd Glemser

Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic & Orchestra Kosice

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Chopin: Frederic Chopin: Life and Works
Work length4:56:50
This work is only available as an album download.
Chopin and the soul of the piano
Track length1:49
Music: Berceuse, Op. 57
Track length2:17
Chopin the Pole
Track length1:48
Music: Polonaise in G minor
Track length1:04
Early education
Track length3:05
Music: Variations on a German Air
Track length1:33
Encounters with the Polish peasantry
Track length1:02
Music: Mazurka in G major
Track length1:13
Chopin as industrious pupil
Track length0:58
Music: Sonata in C minor (Opening)
Track length1:49
He finds his true voice as a composer
Track length1:50
Music: Rondo a la Mazur, Op. 5
Track length1:05
The fun-loving teenager
Track length1:17
Music: Ecossaise, Op. 72, No. 3
Track length0:45
Onset of illness and the death of a sister
Track length2:05
Music: Nocturne in E minor
Track length4:32
' Hats off, Gentlemen! A genius!'
Track length1:36
Music: Variations on ' La ci darem la mano', Op. 2
Track length3:41
The influence of Paganini
Track length1:19
Music: Souvenir de Paganini
Track length2:10
The First Etudes
Track length0:44
Music: Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4
Track length2:15
Success in Vienna
Track length5:58
Music: Nocturne in C sharp minor
Track length1:23
Chopin in love
Track length5:19
Music: Polonaise for cello and piano
Track length1:33
Stagnation, celebrity and the first Concerto
Track length2:18
Music: Concerto in F minor, Op. 21
Track length1:42
Return of vitality and inspiration
Track length5:10
Music: Concerto in E minor, Op. 11
Track length10:49
Farewells and the final departure from Poland
Track length1:38
Europe and Chopin in crisis
Track length7:43
Music: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor
Track length4:28
Arrival in Paris
Track length2:24
Music: Waltz in E flat, Op. 18
Track length5:31
Paris, politics, Poles and performance
Track length7:40
Music: Impromptu in A flat, Op. 29
Track length4:27
Chopin and the Opera
Track length1:49
Music: Andante spianato, Op. 22
Track length4:37
Chopin and Kalkbrenner
Track length2:15
Music: Etude in G flat, Op. 10, No. 5
Track length1:47
The cholera epidemic; the fashionable teacher
Track length7:52
Music: Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12, the 'Revolutionary'
Track length3:02
Teaching in earnest
Track length4:58
Music: Etude in A minor, Op. 25, No. 4
Track length1:47
'Souplesse avant tout!'
Track length2:24
Music: Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1
Track length5:34
The Wodzinska affair
Track length3:43
Music: Nocturne in B major, Op. 32, No. 1
Track length2:08
' An elegant, pale, sad young man '
Track length2:14
Music: Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27, No. 2
Track length6:10
George Sand and a Majorcan winter
Track length22:08
This track is only available as an album download.
Music: Preludes,Op. 28
Track length6:17
Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice
Track length3:38
Music: Mazurkas
Track length7:25
At Nohant: an idyllic and creative summer
Track length2:33
Music: Impromptu in F#
Track length5:47
The Idyll continues
Track length4:57
Music: Sonata in B flat minor - Funeral March and finale
Track length10:41
The return to Paris
Track length2:27
Music: Ballade No. 4 in F minor
Track length12:11
Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile
Track length5:57
Music: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58-Finale
Track length5:33
Failing health and mounting tensions
Track length4:34
Music: Barcarolle, Op. 60
Track length8:42
The break with Sand; illness; London
Track length12:33
Music: Prelude in F sharp, Op. 28, No. 8
Track length1:53
Scotland, London, Paris; decline and death
Track length14:01
Music: Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53
Track length7:13
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