The best of Chopin’s solo piano works – selections from his Polonaises, Waltzes, Mazurkas, Ballades, Preludes – in performances that have been praised time and again over the years from such celebrities as Nikita Magaloff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Joseph Cooper, Peter Katin and Julius Katchen.
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Polonaise No. 3 in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 ‘Military’
Ilana Vered, piano
Mazurka No. 23 in D major, Op. 33 No. 2
Waltz No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 18
Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Opus 70 No. 1
Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op.64 No.1 ‘Minute’
Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2
Peter Katin, piano
Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 ‘Heroic’
Julius Katchen, piano
Prelude No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop’
Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Joseph Cooper, piano
Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7 No. 1
Ilana Vered, piano
Etude No. 3 in E major ‘Tristesse’ from 12 Etudes, Op. 10
Ivan Davis, piano
Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 ‘Fantaisie-Impromptu’
Ilana Vered, piano