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Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin Chengzong Yin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Josef Hofmann, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Raoul Koczalski,
Gertrude Peppercorn, piano
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Daniel Pollack, piano
Alfonso Alberti, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 28 September 1987


1.   Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 - 00:04:38


Etudes, Op. 25 (more info)
Composed by: Ferruccio Busoni Ignacy Jan Paderewski Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Joanna Jimin Lee, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Gergely Boganyi, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Solomon, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Terence Judd, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Vladimir de Pachmann,
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Krzysztof Jablonski, piano
Geza Anda, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 14th Dec, 1932


2.   Etude No. 13 in A flat major, Op. 25, No. 1, 'Harp Study' - 00:02:31


Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Sandor Falvai, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 1990 - 1991


3.   Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1 - 00:06:07


Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Sandor Falvai, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Jack Richard Crossan, piano
Esther Lee Kaplan, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: June 1989


4.   Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2 - 00:06:13


24 Preludes, Op. 28 (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Ferruccio Busoni Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Leticia Gomez-Tagle, piano
Helene Tysman, piano
Rudolf Kerer, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Catherine Perrin, prepared piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Robert Lortat,
Jean-Francois Latour,
Peter Nagy, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Stanislav Bunin, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
Eduard Stan, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 1987-1988


5.   Prelude No. 1 in C major, Op. 28, No. 1 - 00:00:41
6.   Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 - 00:02:20
7.   Prelude No. 13 in F sharp major, Op. 28, No. 13 - 00:03:05


Polonaise No. 13 in A flat major (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


8.   Polonaise No. 13 in A flat major - 00:06:01


Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin Chengzong Yin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 24-27 June 1991


9.   Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 - 00:05:02


Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Andrew Rangell, piano
Idil Biret, piano


10.   Mazurka No. 49 in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 - 00:02:33


Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Michal Bialk, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


11.   Nocturne No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 32, No. 2 - 00:04:17


Etudes, Op. 10 (more info)
Composed by: Ferruccio Busoni Fryderyk Chopin Chengzong Yin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Joanna Jimin Lee, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Solomon, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Tosta di Benici, piano
Sona Shaboyan, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Dinara Nadzhafova, piano
Martha Argerich, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Krzysztof Jablonski, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Caroline Fischer, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 2 June 1935


12.   Etude No. 3 in E major, Op. 10, No. 3 - 00:04:22
13.   Etude No. 5 in G flat major, Op. 10, No. 5, 'Black Keys' - 00:01:44
14.   Etude No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 10, No. 10 - 00:02:41


Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69, No. 1, "L'adieu" (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 13-17 October 1987


15.   Waltz No. 9 in A flat major, Op. 69, No. 1, 'L'adieu' - 00:04:56


Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Pavlos Hatzopoulos, piano


16.   Waltz No. 10 in B minor, Op. 69, No. 2 - 00:04:01

Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Alexander Paley, piano
Anton Kuerti, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Recording date: 6 July, 1993


1.   III. Largo - 00:09:09


Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Camille Saint-Saens Ferruccio Busoni Ignacy Jan Paderewski Fryderyk Chopin
Rafael Orozco, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Michal Bialk, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Gergely Boganyi, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Josef Hofmann, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Raoul Pugno, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


2.   Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2 - 00:03:45


Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70, No. 1 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


3.   Waltz No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70, No. 1 - 00:02:37


Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


4.   Waltz No. 12 in F minor, Op. 70, No. 2 - 00:02:54


Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62, No. 1 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Andrew Rangell, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 20 October 1936 / 13-14 February 1937


5.   Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62, No. 1 - 00:07:48


24 Preludes, Op. 28 (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Ferruccio Busoni Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Leticia Gomez-Tagle, piano
Helene Tysman, piano
Rudolf Kerer, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Catherine Perrin, prepared piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Robert Lortat,
Jean-Francois Latour,
Peter Nagy, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Stanislav Bunin, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
Eduard Stan, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 1987-1988


6.   Prelude No. 6 in B minor, Op. 28, No. 6 - 00:02:16
7.   Prelude No. 7 in A major, Op. 28, No. 7 - 00:00:42
8.   Prelude No. 11 in B major, Op. 28, No. 11 - 00:00:40


Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Aleksander Michalowski Sergei Rachmaninov Alain Lefevre Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Lidia Grychtolowna, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Josef Hofmann, piano
Peter Nagy, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 18 November 1930


9.   Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 - 00:03:52


Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64, No. 3 (more info)
Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 20 June 1934


10.   Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64, No. 3 - 00:02:57


Mazurka No. 29 in A flat major, Op. 41, No. 4 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Andrew Rangell, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Idil Biret, piano


11.   Mazurka No. 29 in A flat major, Op. 41, No. 4 - 00:01:50


Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Fryderyk Chopin
Michal Bialk, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Jungran Kim Khwarg, piano
Pavlos Hatzopoulos, piano


12.   Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 - 00:05:32


Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Moriz Rosenthal Sergei Rachmaninov Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Gergely Boganyi, piano
Jean-Francois Latour,
Idil Biret, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: June 1989


13.   Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 - 00:04:28


Variations in A major, "Souvenir de Paganini" (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


14.   Variations in A major, 'Souvenir de Paganini' - 00:03:51


Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 (more info)
Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Antonin Kubalek, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
William Murdoch, piano
Alexander Paley, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Jorge Bolet, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Valerie Tryon, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 26 January 1935


15.   Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 - 00:07:42

3 Nouvelles etudes, Op. posth. (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Joanna Jimin Lee, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 2-5 September 1987


1.   Etude No. 1 in F minor - 00:02:01
2.   Etude No. 2 in A flat major - 00:02:30
3.   Etude No. 3 in D flat major - 00:01:59


Etudes, Op. 25 (more info)
Composed by: Ferruccio Busoni Ignacy Jan Paderewski Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Joanna Jimin Lee, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Gergely Boganyi, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Solomon, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Terence Judd, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Vladimir de Pachmann,
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Krzysztof Jablonski, piano
Geza Anda, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 14th Dec, 1932


4.   Etude No. 17 in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5 - 00:03:43
5.   Etude No. 21 in G flat major, Op. 25, No. 9, 'Butterfly's Wings' - 00:01:06


Cantabile in B flat major (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


6.   Cantabile in B flat major - 00:01:10


Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth. (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Daniel Pollack, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Evelyn Dubourg, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


7.   Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth. - 00:03:59


24 Preludes, Op. 28 (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Ferruccio Busoni Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Leticia Gomez-Tagle, piano
Helene Tysman, piano
Rudolf Kerer, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Catherine Perrin, prepared piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Robert Lortat,
Jean-Francois Latour,
Peter Nagy, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Stanislav Bunin, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
Eduard Stan, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 1987-1988


8.   Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28, No. 15, 'Raindrop' - 00:05:47


Mazurka No. 11 in E minor, Op. 17, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Andrew Rangell, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Idil Biret, piano


9.   Mazurka No. 11 in E minor, Op. 17, No. 2 - 00:02:29


Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 4 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


10.   III. Larghetto - 00:04:17


Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70, No. 3 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


11.   Waltz No. 13 in D flat major, Op. 70, No. 3 - 00:02:53


Waltz No. 19 in A minor, Op. posth. (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


12.   Waltz No. 19 in A minor, Op. posth. - 00:01:46


Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Andrew Rangell, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Idil Biret, piano
Eduard Stan, piano
Recording date: 29 December 1923


13.   Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3 - 00:02:24


Andantino in G minor (arr. of Wiosna, Op. 74, No. 2) (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


14.   Andantino in G minor (arr. of Wiosna, Op. 74, No. 2) - 00:00:59


Moderato in E major (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


15.   Moderato in E major - 00:01:40


Mazurka No. 47 in A minor, Op. 68, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Andrew Rangell, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano


16.   Mazurka No. 47 in A minor, Op. 68, No. 2 - 00:03:03


Prelude No. 25 in C sharp minor, Op. 45 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Adam Harasiewicz, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano


17.   Prelude No. 25 in C sharp minor, Op. 45 - 00:05:20


Waltz No. 18 in E flat major, Op. posth., "Sostenuto" (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Richard Raymond, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano


18.   Waltz No. 18 in E flat major, Op. posth., 'Sostenuto' - 00:02:05


Contredanse in G flat major (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Idil Biret, piano


19.   Contredanse in G flat major - 00:01:59


Barcarolle, Op. 60 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Jorge Bolet, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 31 March 1941


20.   Barcarolle, Op. 60 - 00:08:42

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