The International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, one of the world’s greatest piano competitions, has produced many illustrious winners and exceptional artists. Here, in an 11-CD box, is a broad survey of the winners from 1927, when the competition began, to 2010.

The Edition includes many classic recordings and a series of live recordings, several from the original Competitions themselves, featuring the great Garrick Ohlsson and the most recent winner Yulianna Avdeeva – both appearing for the first time in any format.

Also featured are two CDs from the early winners of the Competition (1927–55), that fully capture the Chopin piano tradition of earlier times – highlights include Halina Czerny-Stefanska’s Piano Concerto no.1 and selections from Lev Oborin (1927), Alexandre Uninsky (1932) and Yakov Zak (1937).

Contents:
CD 1
LEV OBORIN (1927)        
- Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor Op.58
Live recording, Moscow, 1951
- Berceuse in D flat major Op.57  
Live recording, Chopin recital, 'ROMA' Hall, Warsaw, 12 October 1947   
- Nocturne in C sharp minor Op.posth.
Live recording from the Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition (1927)
             
ALEXANDRE UNINSKY (1932)
- Mazurka Op.6 no.1 (1932)
- Mazurka op.63 no.3 (1932)
- Waltz in G flat major Op.posth. 70 no.1  (1932)
- Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
Rec. Amsterdam, 18–23 January 1952
- Etude in C Sharp minor, Op.25 no.7
  
YAKOV ZAK (1937)
- Grande Valse Brillante in F Op.34 No.3
- Nocturne in B major Op.32 no.1
- Nocturne in G minor Op.37 no.1
- Mazurka in E minor Op.17 no.2
- Mazurka in G sharp minor Op.33 no.1
- Mazurka in F minor Op.63 no.2
- Mazurka in C sharp minor Op.63 no.3

CD 2
HALINA CZERNY-STEFANSKA (1949)
- Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor Op.11
Czech Philharmonic / Václav Smetáček (1955)

BELLA DAVIDOVICH (1949)
- Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Op.21
Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin (1961)
 
ADAM HARASIEWICZ (1955)
- Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23
- Etude in G sharp minor Op.25 no.6

CD 3
MAURIZIO POLLINI (1960)
- 12 Etudes Op.25
- Piano Sonata no.2 in B flat minor Op.35
- Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

CD 4
MARTHA ARGERICH (1965)
- 24 Preludes Op.28
- Prelude in C sharp minor op 45
- Prelude in A flat major op post.
- Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor Op.39
- 3 Mazurkas Op.59
- Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major Op.61
         
CD 5
GARRICK OHLSSON (1970)
- Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op.50 no.3
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ 20th August 2006: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall
  
- Mazurka in A minor, Op.7 no.2    
- Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27 no.2  
- Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op.27 no.1  
- Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op.39   
- Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2  
- Ballade in A flat, Op.47
Chopin Birthday Concerts, 25th February 2010, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall
   
- Waltz in E flat major, Op.18    
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ 20th August 2006: Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall

- Fantasy in F minor, Op.49    
- Waltz in A flat major, Op.42    
- Etude in C sharp minor, Op.10 no.4   
Chopin Birthday Concerts, 25th February 2010, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall

CD 6
KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN (1975)
- 4 Ballades
- Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
- Fantaisie in F minor Op.49

CD 7
DANG THAI-SON (1980)
- Nocturne in F sharp major Op.15 no.2
- Nocturne in C sharp minor Op.27 no.1
- Waltz in A minor Op.34 no.2
- Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat major Op.22
- Mazurka in C major Op.24 no.2
- Mazurka in G minor Op.67 no.2
- Scherzo in B flat minor Op.31

STANISLAV BUNIN (1985)
- Ballade no.4 in F minor Op.52
- Mazurka in G sharp  minor Op.33 no.1
- Mazurka in D major Op.33 no.2
- Mazurka in C major Op.33 no.3
- Mazurka in B minor Op.33 no.4
- Waltz in F major Op.34 no.3
- Polonaise in A flat major Op.53
        
CD 8
KEVIN KENNER (1990)
- Impromptu in F sharp major, Op.36
- Etude in C sharp minor, Op.10 no.4
- Ballade no.4 in F minor, Op.52 
- Etude in C minor, Op.10 no.12  
- Scherzo no.2 in C sharp minor, Op.39
12th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, 1st-20th October 1990

PHILIPPE GIUSIANO (1995)
- Nocturne in A flat, Op.32 No.2 
- Waltz in C sharp, Op.64 No.2 
- Ballade in F major, Op.38 
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’, 10th August 2010, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall 
- Waltz in E flat major, Op.18  
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ 27th August 2008, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall

ALEXEI SULTANOV (1995)
- Etude in E minor, Op.25 no.5  
- Etude in G sharp minor, Op.25 no.6
13th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition , Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, 3rd October 1995 
- Etude in C minor, Op.10 no.12  
- Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1  
- Polonaise in A flat major, Op.53  
13th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition , Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, 13rd October 1995

CD 9
YUNDI LI (2000)
- Sonata in B minor Op.58
- Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat Op.22
- Etude in A minor Op.10 no.2
- Etude in G flat major Op.10 no.5
- Etude in A minor Op.25 no.11 'Winter Wind'
- Nocturne in B flat minor Op.9 no.1
- Nocturne in E flat major Op.9 no.2
- Nocturne in F sharp major Op.15 No.2
- Impromptu in C sharp minor Op.66 'Fantasy Impromptu'
         
CD 10
RAFAL BLECHACZ (2005)
- Polonaises nos 1–7


CD 11
YULIANNA AVDEEVA (2010)
- Waltz in A flat major, Op.34 No.1
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ 22nd August 2008, Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall – live recording
- Nocturne in B major, Op.62 no.1   
- Scherzo in B minor, Op.20    
- Four Mazurkas, Op.33
International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ 24th August 2011, Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio – live recording
- Four Mazurkas, Op.30
- Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.45   
- Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, Op.61  
Recorded of the XVI International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, 2010