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CHOPIN CD 1 1. Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53 “Heroic”\n(Maurizio Pollini) 2. Prelude in D flat major Op. 28/15 “Raindrop”\n(Martha Argerich) 3. Waltz in D flat major Op. 64/1 \“Minute Waltz”\n(Maria Joao Pires) 4. Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64/2 (Alice Sara\nOtt) 5. Etude in E major Op. 10/3 (Nelson Freire) 6. Etude in C\nminor Op. 10/12 “Revolutionary” (Vladimir Ashkenazy) 7. Prelude in\nE minor, Op. 28/4 (Rafal Blechacz) 8. Prelude in A major, Op. 28/7\n(Rafal Blechacz) 9. Berceuse Op.57 (Hélène Grimaud) 10. Polonaise\nin A major, Op. 40/1 “Military” (Emil Gilels) 11.\nFantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66 (Maria Joao Pires) 12.\nNocturne in E flat major, Op. 9/2 (Daniel Barenboim) 13. Ballade\nNo.1 in G minor, Op. 23 (Maurizio Pollini) 14. Scherzo No.2 in B\nflat minor, Op. 31 (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) 15. Grande Valse\nBrillante in E flat major, Op. 18 (Zoltan Kocsis) 16. Etude in A\nminor, Op. 25/11 “Winter Wind”(Vladimir Ashkenazy)

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CD 2 1. Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27/2 (Lang Lang) 2. Etude\nin C sharp minor, Op. 10/4 (Nelson Freire) 3. Prelude in G major,\nOp. 28/3 (Martha Argerich) 4. Prelude in B minor, Op. 28/6 (Martha\nArgerich) 5. Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17/4 (Vladimir Horowitz) 6.\nScherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 39 (Ivo Pogorelich) 7. Piano\nSonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op. 35: Marche funèbre: Lento (Hélène\nGrimaud) 8. Prelude in B major, Op. 28/11 (Friedrich Gulda) 9.\nPrelude in C minor, Op. 28/20 (Friedrich Gulda) 10. 3 Ecossaises,\nOp. 72/3 (Mikhail Pletnev) 11. Etude in G flat major, Op. 25/9\n“Butterfly”(Vladimir Ashkenazy) 12. Nocturne in A flat major, Op.\n32/2 (Maria Joao Pires) 13. Impromptu No.1 in A flat major, Op. 29\n(Mikhail Pletnev) 14. Barcarolle Op. 60 (Maurizio Pollini) 15.\nMazurka in B minor, Op. 30/2(Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) 16.\nBallade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 (Sviatoslav Richter)

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The essential collection of favourite solo works for Chopin Year\n2010!

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Over 140 minutes of pure listening pleasure ­– 2CDs for the\nprice of 1.

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“Chopin was the greatest of us all, for he discovered everything\nthrough the piano alone”. So wrote Debussy about the Polish master,\nthe 200th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated in 2010. This\ncollection – featuring the world’s greatest pianists – bears out\nthis remark, ranging from the dreamy to the heroic, from the\npassionate to the playful, with all Chopin’s favourite titles\nincluded.

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