Chopin: Cello Sonata / Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 / Grand Duo

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Cat No: 8553159

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099415927

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: CHOPIN

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Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849)Music for Cello and PianoSonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65Polonaise bri1lante in C major, Op. 3(ed. Emanuel Feuennann)Grand Duo Concertant in E major on Themes from Robert le Diable(in co1laboration with Auguste Franchomme)Nocturne in C sharp minor, B.I. 49(arr. Gregor Piatigorsky)?ëtude in E minor, Op. 25, No.7(arr. Alexander Glazunov)Waltz in A minor, Op. 34, No.2(arr. Lev Ginzburg)?ëtude in D minor, Op. 10, No.6(arr. Alexander Glazunov)Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His fatherNicolas Chopin was French by birth but had moved to Poland to work as anaccounting clerk, later serving as tutor to the Laczynski family and thereafterto the family of Count Skarbek, one of whose poorer relatives he married. Hissubsequent career led him to the Warsaw Lyceum as a respected teacher of French,and it was there that his only son, Fryderyk, godson of Count Skarbek, whoseChristian name he took, passed his childhood.Chopin showed an early talent for music. He learned the piano from his motherand then with the eccentric Adalbert Zywny, a violinist of Bohemian origin, andas fiercely Polish as Chopin's father. His later training in music was withJozef Elsner, director of the Warsaw Conservatory, at first as a private pupiland then as a student of that institution.In the 1820s Chopin had already begun to win for himself a considerable localreputation, but Warsaw offered relatively limited opportunities. In 1830 he setout for Vienna, a city where he had aroused interest on a visit in the previousyear and where he now hoped to make a more lasting impression. The time,however, was ill-suited to his purpose. Vienna was not short of pianists, andThalberg, in particular, had out-played the rest of the field. During the monthshe spent there Chopin attracted little attention, and resolved to move to Paris.The greater part of Chopin's professional career was to be spent in France,and particularly in Paris, where he established himself as a fashionable teacherand as a performer in the houses of the rich. His playing in the concert hallwas of a style less likely to please than that of the more flamboyant Liszt orthan the technical virtuosity of Kalkbrenner. It was in the more refinedambience of the fashionable salon that his genius as a composer and as aperformer, with its intimacy, elegance and delicacy of nuance, found its place.Chopin could not but admire the ability of Liszt, while not sharing his tastein music. His own background had been severely classical, based on the music ofBach, Mozart and Haydn, and by these standards Beethoven, the object ofadulation for Liszt and his circle, seemed on occasion uncouth, by comparisonwith the classical restraint of Mozart's pupil Hummel. At the same time he heldreservations about the Bohemian way of life that Liszt followed, although hehimself was to become involved in a liaison with the novelist George Sand (AuroreDudevant), which lasted for some ten years, c
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