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Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4, etc.

Emanuel Ax (piano)

Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4, etc.
Particularly impressive are the Ballades… It's hard to imagine a more beautiful rendition of the lyrical second theme of the G minor Ballade, Op. 23, or of the yearning opening melody of the...

BBC Music Magazine, February 20064 out of 5 stars

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Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4, etc.

Emanuel Ax (piano)

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Particularly impressive are the Ballades… It's hard to imagine a more beautiful rendition of the lyrical second theme of the G minor Ballade, Op. 23, or of the yearning opening melody of the...

BBC Music Magazine, February 20064 out of 5 stars

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Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4
Work length36:36
This work is only available as an album download.
No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
Track length9:57
No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
Track length7:05
No. 3 in A Flat Major, Op. 47
Track length7:50
No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Track length11:44
This track is only available as an album download.
Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Work length9:59
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Work length7:41
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 24: No. 2 in C Major
Work length2:00
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 56: No. 3 in C Minor
Work length6:52
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 1 in A Minor
Work length4:01
Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 2 in A-Flat Major
Work length2:39
Chopin: Mazurka No. 38 in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3
Work length3:34
Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise, Op. 22
Work length13:37
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Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1
Work length7:07
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
Work length10:08
This work is only available as an album download.
Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54
Work length11:00
This work is only available as an album download.
Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études
Work length6:06
Ètude No. 1 in F Minor
Track length2:20
Ètude No. 3 in D-Flat Major
Track length1:37
Ètude No. 2 in A-Flat Major
Track length2:09
Chopin: Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'
Work length13:22
This work is only available as an album download.

Awards and reviews

February 2006

Particularly impressive are the Ballades… It's hard to imagine a more beautiful rendition of the lyrical second theme of the G minor Ballade, Op. 23, or of the yearning opening melody of the F minor last Ballade.
4 out of 5 stars

April 2006

…Ax… explores the Mazurkas' complex inner world with rare affection, attentive to detail yet exaggerating nothing and always maintaining an air of civilised discourse. His technique in the daunting demands of the Ballades and Scherzos is so masterly that you almost forget its comprehensive range of the way even the highest hurdle is taken with yards to spare. Generous and big-handed Ax's Chopin is noble, grandly aristocratic and, above all, heartfelt.
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