Janina Fialkowska - Chopin: Complete Mazurkas (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Mazurka No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 6 No. 1
02. Mazurka No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 6 No. 2
03. Mazurka No. 3 in E Major, Op. 6 No. 3
04. Mazurka No. 4 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 6 No. 4
05. Mazurka No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 7 No. 1
06. Mazurka No. 6 in A Minor, Op. 7 No. 2
07. Mazurka No. 7 in F Minor, Op. 7 No. 3
08. Mazurka No. 8 in A-Flat Major, Op. 7 No. 4
09. Mazurka No. 9 in C Major, Op. 7 No. 5
10. Mazurka No. 10 in B-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 1
11. Mazurka No. 11 in E Minor, Op. 17 No. 2
12. Mazurka No. 12 in A-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 3
13. Mazurka No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 17 No. 4
14. Mazurka No. 14 in G Minor, Op. 24 No. 1
15. Mazurka No. 15 in C Major, Op. 24 No. 2
16. Mazurka No. 16 in A-Flat Major, Op. 24 No. 3
17. Mazurka No. 17 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 24 No. 4
18. Mazurka No. 18 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 1
19. Mazurka No. 19 in B Minor, Op. 30 No. 2
20. Mazurka No. 20 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 No. 3
21. Mazurka No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 No. 4
22. Mazurka No. 22 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 33 No. 1
23. Mazurka No. 23 in D Major, Op. 33 No. 2
24. Mazurka No. 24 in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3
25. Mazurka No. 25 in B Minor, Op. 33 No. 4
26. Mazurka No. 26 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 41 No. 1
27. Mazurka No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 41 No. 2
28. Mazurka No. 28 in B Major, Op. 41 No. 3
29. Mazurka No. 29 in A-Flat Major, Op. 41 No. 4

CD2
01. Mazurka No. 30 in G Major, Op. 50 No. 1
02. Mazurka No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 50 No. 2
03. Mazurka No. 32 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50 No. 3
04. Mazurka No. 33 in B Major, Op. 56 No. 1
05. Mazurka No. 34 in C Major, Op. 56 No. 2
06. Mazurka No. 35 in C Minor, Op. 56 No. 3
07. Mazurka No. 36 in A Minor, Op. 59 No. 1
08. Mazurka No. 37 in A-Flat Major, Op. 59 No. 2
09. Mazurka No. 38 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59 No. 3
10. Mazurka No. 39 in B Major, Op. 63 No. 1
11. Mazurka No. 40 in F Minor, Op. 63 No. 2
12. Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63 No. 3
13. Mazurka No. 51 in A Minor, Op. Posth., "À Émile Gaillard"
14. Mazurka No. 50 in A Minor, Op. Posth., "Notre temps"
15. Mazurka No. 56 in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth.
16. Mazurka No. 55 in G Major, Op. Posth.
17. Mazurka No. 47 in A Minor, Op. 68 No. 2
18. Mazurka No. 46 in C Major, Op. 68 No. 1
19. Mazurka No. 48 in F Major, Op. 68 No. 3
20. Mazurka No. 42 in G Major, Op. 67 No. 1
21. Mazurka No. 59 in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth.
22. Mazurka No. 62 in A-Flat Major, Op. Posth.
23. Mazurka No. 44 in C Major, Op. 67 No. 3
24. Mazurka No. 45 in A Minor, Op. 67 No. 4
25. Mazurka No. 43 in G Minor, Op. 67 No. 2
26. Mazurka No. 49 in F Minor, Op. 68 No. 4



Unlike his close contemporaries Schumann and Liszt, Chopin was not prone to putting his innermost thoughts and emotions on display for general public consumption; doing so was aesthetically alien to his nature. Not for him were the conflicts of Florestan and Eusebius, so eloquently portrayed in the troubled Schumann’s compositions, or the Faustian dilemma ever-present in Liszt’s outpourings. No, Chopin kept his feelings close to his heart and most definitely not on his sleeve. He was only reluctantly a participant in the Romantic Era, but in spite of his personal reticence, the feelings of this tragic genius eventually found their way into his compositions, and nowhere more so than in his mazurkas.

Through the mazurkas the essence of Chopin is revealed. In these compositions we find him at his most original and daring, and in them he ranges over the widest possible spectrum of emotion and pianistic color. Chopin did not invent the mazurka. A 16th-century peasant dance originating in the province of Mazowsze in Poland and accompanied usually by the dudy (a bagpipe), the mazurka had a delightfully syncopated rhythm in 3/4 time and could be either sung o danced. Originally, mazurkas comprised three kinds of folk dance: the fast accented oberek, the elusive kujawiak (the predecessor of what we know as mazurka form), and the mazur, filled with Slavic sentiment and zal— a unique Polish word describing nostalgia verging on despair.

By the early 19th century, the mazurka dance form had spread across Europe, reaching both Paris — where it was much appreciated by the aristocracy—and England.

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