Polonaises

Album by Fryderyk Chopin & Cyprien Katsaris

Polonaises are a set of solo piano pieces by Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, published in various editions between 1826 and 1846. They adapt the Polish polonaise dance into a solo piano idiom, characterised by stately triple-time rhythms, patriotic and martial gestures, and increasing technical and harmonic complexity across Chopin's middle-to-late compositional output.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E-flat major, op. 22
    12:44
  2. 2.
    Polonaise in C-sharp major, op. 26 no. 1
    7:33
  3. 3.
    Polonaise in E-flat major, op. 26 no. 2
    8:13
  4. 4.
    Polonaise in A major, op. 40 no. 1
    5:29
  5. 5.
    Polonaise in C major, op. 40 no. 2
    8:49
  6. 6.
    Polonaise in F-sharp minor, op. 44
    9:40
  7. 7.
    Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53
    6:23
  8. 8.
    Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat major, op. 61
    12:36

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Polonaise in D minor, op. 71, no. 1
    4:43
  2. 3.
    Polonaise in B-flat major, op. 71, no. 2
    6:31
  3. 4.
    Polonaise in F minor, op. 71, no. 3 "Autograph version"
    7:04
  4. 5.
    Polonaise in F minor, op. 71, no. 3 "Fontana version"
    7:24
  5. 6.
    Polonaise in G minor, op. Post.
    2:57
  6. 7.
    Polonaise in B-flat major, op. Post.
    3:03
  7. 8.
    Polonaise in A-flat major, op. Post.
    4:37
  8. 9.
    Polonaise in G-sharp minor, op. Post.
    5:20
  9. 10.
    Polonaise in B-flat minor, op. Post.
    4:22
  10. 11.
    Polonaise in G-flat major, op. Post.
    7:03
  11. 12.
    Marche funèbre in C minor, op. 72 no. 2 "Ekier version"
    4:28
  12. 13.
    Marche funèbre in C minor, op. 72 no. 2 "Fontana version"
    4:03
  13. 14.
    Marche funèbre in C minor, op. 72 no. 2 "Ganche version"
    4:58

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