Karolina Nadolska - Chopin Polish Dances [CD]

Cat. no: DUX1583
Format: CD
Barcode: 5902547015835
Release Date: 12 Jan 2024
Genre: Classical

The album is entirely devoted to the work of Fryderyk Chopin

Polish dances - mazurka, kujawiak and oberek - fnd their most beautiful, most sublime interpretation in mazurkas. Chopin composed these lyrical miniatures throughout his entire life; however, he did not recur to literal quotations, but stylized the overheard melodies.

The featured mazurkas span several years of Chopin's oeuvre, from the earliest miniatures from opus 6, sketched just before his departure from Poland, to one of the last works, dated 1846.

Karolina Nadolska, a prize-winning pianist, performing on six continents, uses a wide range of expressive means in her interpretation, fully refecting the diverse moods and colours of individual miniatures. Two late polonaises in the form of fantasy go far beyond the title form of dance - and yet in the pianist's interpretation, we can still feel its pulse, as if it were Chopin's heartbeat. An album for lovers of discovering new meanings in the music of the most outstanding Polish composer.

Tracks: Chopin: Mazurka in B major, Op. 63 No. 1 / Mazurka in E minor, Op. 17 No. 2 / Mazurka in E major, Op. 6 No. 3 / Mazurka in E minor, Op. 41 No. 1 / Mazurka in B major, Op. 41 No. 2 / Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 1 / Polonaise-Fantasy in A fat major, Op. 61 / Mazurka in A fat major, Op. 59 No. 2 / Mazurka in A fat major, Op. 7 No. 4 / Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 2 / Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 / Mazurka in B major, Op. 56, No. 1 / Mazurka in B minor, Op. 30 No. 2 / Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3 / Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 1 / Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44

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