Véronique Bonnecaze - Chopin: Complete Sonatas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

1826. The Chopin family lives in Warsaw. Frederic is still a young man, just on the edge of adulthood. His catalog is already rich with some piano pieces, rondos, variations, waltzes, mazurkas and polonaises. Living in a certain material comfort and having taken refuge in relative solitude – he who desired so much to drop out of school – Chopin studies counterpoint - only counterpoint because he already masters piano technique to perfection - with Józef Elsner (1769-1854), at the Higher School of Music. He also registers at the University of Warsaw, as an auditor, to history and literature classes. The two subject matters are tinted by the two major influences of their time, Enlightenment on the one hand and Sturm und Drang on the other. Both nourish the new Polish literature that in turn, with revolutionary energy, feeds into proud nationalism. Slavic and Polish traditions are magnified by the likes of Elsner, himself a composer of operas. And so he dreams about the destiny of his most gifted student: Will Chopin become the Messiah of Polish opera? After all, piano repertoire should logically eclipse itself before the exalting priorities of present times. In fact Chopin is studying singing and Italian, but without cutting himself off from his prodigious abilities as an instrumentalist.

Tracklist:
1. Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: I. Allegro maestoso (07:02)
2. Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: II. Minuetto. Allegretto (03:25)
3. Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: III. Larghetto (03:56)
4. Sonata No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4: IV. Finale. Presto (07:11)
5. Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March": I. Grave. Doppio movimento (07:47)
6. Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March": II. Scherzo (07:26)
7. Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March": III. Marche funèbre. Lento (09:03)
8. Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March": IV. Finale. Presto (01:43)
9. Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: I. Allegro maestoso (09:23)
10. Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: II. Scherzo (02:58)
11. Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: III. Largo (08:49)
12. Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58: IV. Finale. Presto non tanto (05:17)


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