About this product
Title: Ballades & Impromptus
Artist: Chopin / Farkas
Label: Hungaroton
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5991813282927
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-07-19
Number of Discs: 1
The piano-ballade is Chopin's invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopin's free improvisations, (improvisations: impromptu) were seemingly piano pieces without genre; individual pieces for performance, longer than the nocturnes but shorter than the ballades or scherzos. His compositions were all but pale shadows of his improvisations,' wrote Georges Sand. The highly-regarded Hungarian-born pianist Gábor Farkas has, in the decade since winning the International Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar alongside the coveted Audience Prize in the same competition in 2009, come to be recognized internationally as a wholly exceptional artist.
Tracks:
1.1 Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
1.2 Ballade in F Major, Op. 38
1.3 Ballade in a Flat Major, Op. 47
1.4 Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
1.5 Impromptu in a Flat Major, Op. 29
1.6 Impromptu in F Sharp minor, Op. 36
1.7 Impromptu in G Flat Major, Op. 51
1.8 Impromptu in C Sharp minor (Fantaisie-Impromptu), Op. 66
Artist: Chopin / Farkas
Label: Hungaroton
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5991813282927
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-07-19
Number of Discs: 1
The piano-ballade is Chopin's invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopin's free improvisations, (improvisations: impromptu) were seemingly piano pieces without genre; individual pieces for performance, longer than the nocturnes but shorter than the ballades or scherzos. His compositions were all but pale shadows of his improvisations,' wrote Georges Sand. The highly-regarded Hungarian-born pianist Gábor Farkas has, in the decade since winning the International Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar alongside the coveted Audience Prize in the same competition in 2009, come to be recognized internationally as a wholly exceptional artist.
Tracks:
1.1 Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
1.2 Ballade in F Major, Op. 38
1.3 Ballade in a Flat Major, Op. 47
1.4 Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
1.5 Impromptu in a Flat Major, Op. 29
1.6 Impromptu in F Sharp minor, Op. 36
1.7 Impromptu in G Flat Major, Op. 51
1.8 Impromptu in C Sharp minor (Fantaisie-Impromptu), Op. 66
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