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Chopin: Piano Sonatas

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Chopin: Piano Sonatas
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  • Variations Brillantes in B flat major, Op. 12
    Composer(s) Frederic Chopin Frédéric Chopin

    Variations Brillantes in B flat major, Op. 12

    08:38
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  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – I. Grave. Doppio movimento
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – I. Grave. Doppio movimento

    07:18
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  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – II. Scherzo
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – II. Scherzo

    07:13
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  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – III. Marche funèbre: Lento
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – III. Marche funèbre: Lento

    11:25
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  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – IV. Finale. Presto. Sotto voce e legato
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 – IV. Finale. Presto. Sotto voce e legato

    01:37
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  • Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60

    09:42
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  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – I. Allegro maestoso
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – I. Allegro maestoso

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  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – II. Scherzo. Molto vivace

    02:57
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  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – III. Largo
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – III. Largo

    09:46
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  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – IV. Finale. Presto non tanto; Agitato
    Composer(s) Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – IV. Finale. Presto non tanto; Agitato

    04:52
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Total running time: 77 minutes.

    Album information

    Artur Pizarro's second Chopin album, following on from his hugely successful Reminiscences album. Pianist magazine named it the 'Chopin Album of 2007'.

    Pizarro's recording of two of Chopin's finest sonatas is a natural progression from his Beethoven recordings, as the musical modifications Chopin made to the sonata form clearly built upon the formal boundaries that Beethoven had extended. Chopin introduced multiple changes of rhythm and tempi, often even within individual movements and, like Beethoven, rearranged the movements to include a scherzo as the second movement and a slow third movement. The French pianist Alfred Cortot saw the most important shift from Beethoven's to Chopin's sonatas as the shift from inspiration by the ideals of universality to the suffusion of the music by the composer's personal feelings and emotions.

    The famous 'Funeral March' earned the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor the approved title of 'Sonata fùnebre', however more unkind titles were also attributed to it by Anton Rubinstein who named it the 'Death Poem' and Robert Schumann who referred to it as 'four of Chopin's maddest children under the same roof'. It has been suggested that this sonata was modelled on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 26 in A flat major, also subtitled 'Funeral march', which Chopin often played and taught.

    Written five years after the Second Piano Sonata, the Piano Sonata in B minor was written in times of tranquillity and relatively good health. The largest of all of Chopin's works for piano solo, it represents the apotheosis of his creativity.