Nocturnes / Ballades

Album by Fryderyk Chopin & Vladimir Ashkenazy

Nocturnes and Ballades are collections of solo piano works by Frédéric Chopin, composed between 1827 and 1846. They are part of the Romantic piano repertoire, with the nocturnes emphasising lyrical, nocturnal textures and the ballades using dramatic, narrative-driven structures, and they appear across Chopin's career as markers of his development in harmony, form and pianistic writing.

Nocturnes / Ballades by Chopin - album cover

First released: 7th July 1997

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Disc 1

1.
Nocturne No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
5:48
2.
Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
4:03
3.
Nocturne No. 3 in B major, Op. 9 No. 3
6:50
4.
Nocturne No. 4 in F major, Op. 15 No. 1
4:31
5.
Nocturne No. 5 in F-sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2
3:47
6.
Nocturne No. 6 in G minor, Op. 15 No. 3
3:48
7.
Nocturne No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1
5:29
8.
Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
5:49
9.
Nocturne No. 9 in B major, Op. 32 No. 1
5:05
10.
Nocturne No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 32 No. 2
5:43
11.
Nocturne No. 11 in G minor, Op. 37 No. 1
6:12
12.
Nocturne No. 12 in G major, Op. 37 No. 2
5:34
13.
Nocturne No. 13 in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
6:28
14.
Nocturne No. 14 in F-sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2
7:32

Disc 2

2.
Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
4:56
3.
Nocturne No. 16 in E-flat major, Op. 55 No. 2
5:20
4.
Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1
7:01
5.
Nocturne No. 18 in E major, Op. 62 No. 2
5:57
6.
Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1
4:19
7.
Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor (1830)
4:05
8.
Nocturne No. 21 in C minor (1837)
3:08
9.
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
9:49
10.
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
7:41
11.
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
7:32
12.
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
11:27

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