Life & Works: Chopin

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Chopin And The Soul Of The Piano - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 2. Berceuse, Op.57 - Idil Biret
• 3. Chopin The Pole - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 4. Polonaise in g - Idil Biret
• 5. Early Education - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 6. Vars On A German Air - Idil Biret
• 7. Encounters With The Polish Peasantry - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 8. Mazurka in G - Idil Biret
• 9. Chopin As Industrious Pupil - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 10. Son in c (Opening) - Idil Biret
• 11. He Finds His True Voice As A Composer - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 12. Rondo A La Mazur, Op.5 - Idil Biret
• 13. The Fun-Loving Teenager - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 14. Ecossaise, Op.72 No.3 - Idil Biret
• 15. Onset Of Illness And The Death Of A Sister - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 16. Nocturne in e - Idil Biret
• 17. Hats Off, Gentlemen! A Genius! - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 18. Vars On 'La Ci Darem La Mano', Op.2 - Idil Biret
• 19. The Influence Of Paganini - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 20. Souvenir De Paganini - Idil Biret
• 21. The First Etudes - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 22. Etude in c#, Op.10, No.4 - Idil Biret
• 23. Success In Vienna - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 24. Nocturne in c# - Idil Biret
• 25. Chopin In Love - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 26. Polonaise - Idil Biret
• 27. Stagnation, Celebrity And The First Con - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 28. Con in f, Op.21 - Idil Biret
• 29. Return Of Vitality And Inspiration - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 30. Con in e, Op.11 - Idil Biret
• 31. Farewells And The Final Departure From Poland - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser

Disc 2

• 1. Europe And Chopin In Crisis - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 2. Scherzo No.1 in b - Idil Biret
• 3. Arrival In Paris - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 4. Waltz in E flat, Op.18 - Idil Biret
• 5. Paris, Politics, Poles And Performance - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 6. Impromptu in A flat, Op.29 - Idil Biret
• 7. Chopin And The Opr - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 8. Andante Spianato, Op.22 - Idil Biret
• 9. Chopin And Kalkbrenner - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 10. Etude in G flat, Op.10, No.5 - Idil Biret
• 11. The Cholera Epidemi; The Fashionable Teacher - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 12. Etude in C minor, Op.10, No.12, The 'Revolutionary' - Idil Biret
• 13. Teaching In Earnest - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 14. Etude in a, Op.25, No.4 - Idil Biret
• 15. Souplesse Avant Tout! - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 16. Nocturne in b flat, Op.9, No.1 - Idil Biret

Disc 3

• 1. The Woodzinska Affair - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 2. Nocturne in B, Op.32, No.1 - Idil Biret
• 3. An Elegant, Pale, Sad Young Man - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 4. Nocturne in D flat, Op.27, No.2 - Idil Biret
• 5. George Sand And A Majorcan Winter - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 6. Prlds, Op.28 - Idil Biret
• 7. Misanthropy, Hypocrisy And Prejudice - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 8. Mazurkas - Idil Biret
• 9. At Nohant: An Idyllic And Creative Summer - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 10. Impromptu in F# - Idil Biret
• 11. The Idyll Continues - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 12. Sonata in b flat: Funeral March And Finale - Idil Biret

Disc 4

• 1. The Return To Paris - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 2. Ballade No.4 in f - Idil Biret
• 3. Chopin Grows Moody, Petulant And Volatile - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 4. Son No.3 in b, Op.58: Finale - Idil Biret
• 5. Failing Health And Mounting Tensions - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 6. Barcarolle, Op.60 - Idil Biret
• 7. The Break With Sand; Illness; London - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 8. Prld in F#, Op.28, No.8 - Idil Biret
• 9. Scotland, London, Paris; Decline And Death - Jeremy Siepmann/Anton Lesser
• 10. Polonaise in A flat, Op.53 - Idil Biret