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Chopin Piano Works - Artur Rubinstein

RRC6010 (6 discs)

COMPILATION

Playing time: 78'07" / 73'04" / 68'12" / 72'52" / 62'00" / 63'40" - TT 417'55"
Tracks: 9 + 29 + 24 + 32 + 12 + 16
Booklet pages: 8
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Chopin Piano Works - Artur Rubinstein published on 2 November 2011

Listen: Chopin: Polonaise in A flat 'Heroic' (CD6 track 16, 3:37-4:37)

Artur Rubinstein, piano

Fryderyck Chopin (1810-1849):

CD1

1 Ballade No 1 Op 23 in G minor
2 Ballade No 2 Op 38 in F
3 Ballade No 3 Op 47 in A flat
4 Ballade No 4 Op 52 in F minor
5 Scherzo No 1 Op 20 in B minor
6 Scherzo No 2 Op 31 in B flat minor
7 Scherzo No 3 Op 39 in C sharp minor
8 Scherzo No 4 Op 54 in E

Recorded in 1959

9 Polonaise No 1 in C sharp minor Op 26

Recording first published in 1958

CD2

Mazurkas Op 6
1 No 1 in F sharp minor
2 No 2 in C sharp minor
3 No 3 in E
4 No 4 in E flat minor

Mazurkas Op 7
5 No 1 in B flat
6 No 2 in A minor
7 No 3 in F minor
8 No 4 in A flat
9 No 5 in C

Mazurkas Op 17
10 No 1 in B flat
11 No 2 in E minor
12 No 3 in A flat
13 No 4 in A minor

Mazurkas Op 24
14 No 1 in G minor
15 No 2 in C
16 No 3 in A flat
17 No 4 in B flat

Mazurkas Op 30
18 No 1 in C minor
19 No 2 in B minor
20 No 3 in D flat
21 No 4 in C sharp minor

Mazurkas Op 33
22 No 1 in G sharp minor
23 No 2 in D
24 No 3 in C
25 No 4 in B minor

Mazurkas Op 41
26 No 1 in C sharp minor
27 No 2 in E minor
28 No 3 in B
29 No 4 in A flat

Recording first published in 1956

CD3

Mazurkas Op 50
1 No 1 in G
2 No 2 in A flat
3 No 3 in C sharp minor

Mazurkas Op 56
4 No 1 in B
5 No 2 in C
6 No 3 in C minor

Mazurkas Op 59
7 No 1 in A minor
8 No 2 in A flat
9 No 3 in F sharp minor

Mazurkas Op 63
10 No 1 in B
11 No 2 in F minor
12 No 3 in C sharp minor

Mazurkas Op Posth
13 A minor 'a Emile Galliard'
14 A minor 'Notre temps'

Mazurkas Op 67
15 No 1 in G
16 No 2 in G minor
17 No 3 in C
18 No 4 in A minor

Mazurkas Op 68
19 No 1 in C
20 No 2 in A minor
21 No 3 in F
22 No 4 in F minor

Recording first published in 1956

23 Polonaise No 2 in E flat minor Op 26
24 Polonaise No 1 in A 'Military', Op 40

Recording first published in 1958

CD4

Preludes Op 28
1 No 1 in C
2 No 2 in A minor
3 No 3 in G
4 No 4 in E minor
5 No 5 in D
6 No 6 in B minor
7 No 7 in A
8 No 8 in F sharp minor
9 No 9 in E
10 No 10 in C sharp minor
11 No 11 in B
12 No 12 in G sharp minor
13 No 13 in F sharp
14 No 14 in E flat minor
15 No 15 in D flat
16 No 16 in B flat minor
17 No 17 in A flat
18 No 18 in F minor
19 No 19 in E flat
20 No 20 in C minor
21 No 21 in B flat
22 No 22 in G minor
23 No 23 in F
24 No 24 in D minor

Recorded in 1946

Nocturnes Op 9
25 No 1 in B flat minor
26 No 2 in E flat
27 No 3 in B

Nocturnes Op 15
28 No 1 in F
29 No 2 in F sharp
30 No 3 in G minor

Nocturnes Op 27
31 No 1 in C sharp minor
32 No 2 in D flat

Recorded 1936-7

CD5

Nocturnes Op 32
1 No 1 in B
2 No 2 in A flat

Nocturnes Op 37
3 No 1 in G minor
4 No 2 in G

Nocturnes Op 48
5 No 1 in C minor
6 No 2 in F sharp minor

Nocturnes Op 55
7 No 1 in F minor
8 No 2 in E flat

Nocturnes Op 62
9 No 1 in B
10 No 2 in E

11 Nocturne Op 72 No 1

Recorded in 1936-7

12 Polonaise No 2 in C minor, Op 40

Recording first published in 1958

CD6

Waltzes

1 No 1 in E flat Op 18 'Grande valse brillante'
2 No 2 in A flat Op 34 No 1 'Valse brillante'
3 No 3 in A minor Op 34 No 2 'Valse brillante'
4 No 4 in F Op 34 No 3 'Valse brillante'
5 No 5 in A flat Op 42
6 No 6 in D flat Op 64 No 1 'Minute'
7 No 7 in C sharp minor Op 64 No 2
8 No 8 in A flat Op 64 No 3
9 No 9 in A flat Op 69 No 1 'L'adieu'
10 No 10 in B minor Op 69 No 2
11 No 11 in G flat Op 70 No 1
12 No 12 in F minor Op 70 No 2
13 No 13 in D flat Op 70 No 3
14 No 14 in E minor Op Posth

Recording first published in 1955

15 Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op 44

16 Polonaise in A flat 'Heroic', Op 53

Recording first published in 1958

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