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Chopin - Four Ballads, Fantaisie, etc | Arts Music 476962

Chopin - Four Ballads, Fantaisie, etc

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Label: Arts Music

Cat No: 476962

Barcode: 0600554769622

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th September 2008

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Contents

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
Barcarolle in F sharp major, op.60
Fantasy in F minor, op.49
Mazurkas (51)
» no.18 in C minor, op.30 no.1
» no.19 in B minor, op.30 no.2
» no.20 in D flat major, op.30 no.3
» no.21 in C sharp minor, op.30 no.4

Artists

Alessandro Ammara (piano)

Works

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
Barcarolle in F sharp major, op.60
Fantasy in F minor, op.49
Mazurkas (51)
» no.18 in C minor, op.30 no.1
» no.19 in B minor, op.30 no.2
» no.20 in D flat major, op.30 no.3
» no.21 in C sharp minor, op.30 no.4

Artists

Alessandro Ammara (piano)

About

Alessandra Ammara graduated from the "L. Cherubini" Conservatory of Florence and the Accademia Pianistica of Imola. She honed her talents in some of today's most important music schools, such as the International Piano Foundation at Lake Como and the School of Music in Fiesole, with great musicians like Maria Tipo, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Naboré and Fou Ts'ong. She has drawn the attention of the musical world after achieving brilliant results in some of the more important international piano competitions, such as the "G. B. Viotti" in Vercelli, the "J. Iturbi" in Valencia, the "Casagrande" in Terni and the "Van Cliburn" in Fort Worth.

Frederic Chopin’s four Ballades are mature works written between 1836 and 1842, after he left his Polish homeland. They represent pure music in its finest form without any suggestive narration, though it is clear that Chopin was inspired by the stories of his native Poland and particularly the poems of Adam Mickiewicz.

The Ballades are considered to be some of the finest of Chopin's creations and among the most representative of romantic music. Chopin composed 58 Mazurkas (there seem to be at least another 2 unfinished sketches), and in them you get to know the very heart and soul of his native Poland. Many of his other works of different genres are either inspired by the Mazurka or have parts of Mazurkas within them. Chopin did not invent the mazurka form, however it was he alone who put it on the public stage and refined it into the highest level of music.

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