Anna Zassimova - Chopin Ballades Nos 2 & 4, Scherzo No. 4, Mazurkas & Waltzes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The pianist Anna Zassimova offers us a musical journey through most of Chopin’s creative periods, bringing together miniatures and some larger scaled, highly structured works. We can thus follow the composer’s stylistic evolution: slightly whimsical at first, then works that are often tragic and violent, evolving in his final years towards great luminosity and relative calm.
Highlights of this recital include the Ballades Nos 2 and 4, the Mazurkas, Op. 41 and Op. 50 and the Scherzo No. 4 in E major. The mazurkas can be seen as a kind of diary that Chopin kept throughout his life as an artist, reflecting his deep-rooted attachment to Poland. In them, folklore was entirely recreated and stylized. Considered the finest of Chopin’s creation and among the most representative of romantic music, the Ballads are pure music in its finest form. Without any specific programme, they are said to have been inspired by the poetic ideas of one of his friends, the poet Adam Mickiewicz. Finally, the Scherzo has an almost fairy-tale, luminous atmosphere, although there are more passionate and intense moments, and it thus appears close to the character of the scherzo as it was once conceived.

TRACKLIST

01. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60 (Excerpts): No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor
02. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60 (Excerpts): No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
03. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 3 in F Minor
04. Anna Zassimova - Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52, B. 146
05. Anna Zassimova - Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 15 No. 3, B. 79
06. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 67 (Excerpts): No. 2 in G Minor, B. 167
07. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 50, B. 145: No. 1 in G Major
08. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 50, B. 145: No. 2 in A-Flat Major
09. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 50, B. 145: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor
10. Anna Zassimova - Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38, B. 102
11. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 67 (Excerpts): No. 3 in C Major, B. 93
12. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor
13. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 2 in E Minor
14. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 3 in B Major
15. Anna Zassimova - Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 4 in A-Flat Major
16. Anna Zassimova - Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 3, B. 164
17. Anna Zassimova - Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54, B. 148
18. Anna Zassimova - Waltz in E Major
19. Anna Zassimova - Waltz in E-Flat Major "Sostenuto"
20. Anna Zassimova - Cantabile in B-Flat Major
21. Anna Zassimova - Moderato in E Major



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