Chopin Gold

The essential collection of favourite solo works for Chopin Year 2010! Over 140 minutes of pure listening pleasure – 2CDs for the price of 1. “Chopin was the greatest of us all, for he discovered everything through the piano alone”. So wrote Debussy about the Polish master, the 200th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated in 2010. This collection – featuring the world's greatest pianists – bears out this remark, ranging from the dreamy to the heroic, from the passionate to the playful, with all Chopin's favourite titles included. ARTISTS Featuring some of the world's finest pianists such as Argerich, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Blechacz, Freire, Grimaud, Gulda, Horowitz, Lang Lang, Michelangeli, Ott, Pires, Pollini and many more. Track Listing: Disc 1: Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53 “Heroic” (Maurizio Pollini) Prelude in D flat major Op. 28/15 “Raindrop” (Martha Argerich) Waltz in D flat major Op. 64/1 "Minute Waltz” (Maria Joao Pires) Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64/2 (Alice Sara Ott) Etude in E major Op. 10/3 (Nelson Freire) Etude in C minor Op. 10/12 “Revolutionary” (Vladimir Ashkenazy) Prelude in E minor, Op. 28/4 (Rafal Blechacz) Prelude in A major, Op. 28/7 (Rafal Blechacz) Berceuse Op.57 (Hélène Grimaud) Polonaise in A major, Op. 40/1 “Military” (Emil Gilels) Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 (Maria Joao Pires) Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 9/2 (Daniel Barenboim) Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23 (Maurizio Pollini) Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op. 31 (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major, Op. 18 (Zoltan Kocsis) Etude in A minor, Op. 25/11 “Winter Wind”(Vladimir Ashkenazy) Disc 2: Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27/2 (Lang Lang) Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 10/4 (Nelson Freire) Prelude in G major, Op. 28/3 (Martha Argerich) Prelude in B minor, Op. 28/6 (Martha Argerich) Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17/4 (Vladimir Horowitz) Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 (Ivo Pogorelich) Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op. 35: Marche funèbre: Lento (Hélène Grimaud) Prelude in B major, Op. 28/11 (Friedrich Gulda) Prelude in C minor, Op. 28/20 (Friedrich Gulda) 3 Ecossaises, Op. 72/3 (Mikhail Pletnev) Etude in G flat major, Op. 25/9 “Butterfly”(Vladimir Ashkenazy) Nocturne in A flat major, Op. 32/2 (Maria Joao Pires) Impromptu No.1 in A flat major, Op. 29 (Mikhail Pletnev) Barcarolle Op. 60 (Maurizio Pollini) Mazurka in B minor, Op. 30/2(Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 (Sviatoslav Richter)