Chopin: Ballades et Impromptus François Dumont

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Ballade No. 1 en Sol Mineur, Op. 23:
• 1 Chopin: Ballade No. 1 en Sol Mineur, Op. 23 09:20
• Ballade No. 2 en Fa Majeur, Op. 38:
• 2 Chopin: Ballade No. 2 en Fa Majeur, Op. 38 07:17
• Ballade No. 3 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 47:
• 3 Chopin: Ballade No. 3 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 47 07:50
• Ballade No. 4 en Fa Mineur, Op. 57:
• 4 Chopin: Ballade No. 4 en Fa Mineur, Op. 57 10:52
• Impromptu en Ut Dièse Mineur, Op. posth:
• 5 Chopin: Impromptu en Ut Dièse Mineur, Op. posth: Fantaisie-Impromptu 05:20
• Impromptu No. 1 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 29:
• 6 Chopin: Impromptu No. 1 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 29 04:16
• Impromptu No. 2 en Fa Dièse Majeur, Op. 36:
• 7 Chopin: Impromptu No. 2 en Fa Dièse Majeur, Op. 36 05:39
• Impromptu No. 3 en Sol Bémol Majeur, Op. 51:
• 8 Chopin: Impromptu No. 3 en Sol Bémol Majeur, Op. 51 05:17
• Total Runtime 55:51

Info for Chopin: Ballades et Impromptus

Ballades and Impromptus. Among the most suggestive of the titles Chopin bestowed on his works, they announce the poetic charge of two very different and contrasting genres. Where the Ballades are expansive and dense, with their dramatic power rooted in epic and legend and their bright or sombre hues, the Impromptus are light and concise, elusive and ephemeral, airy, fragile and volatile in texture, and with delicate touches of colour that spread joy, effervescent or serene, on the fleet wings of their melodies. These two aspects are but one at heart, though, in their essential romanticism, their lyricism and their roots in the fertile soil of improvisation, inseparable from the powerful inspiration that brought them into being. ...

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