Chopin: Greatest Hits | Frederic Chopin, Eugene Ormandy, ...

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	Chopin: Greatest Hits Frederic Chopin, Eugene Ormandy, ... Sony, 1994 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Five Stars for Chopin

What can I say! This is a wonderful collection of music. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves his music.

Good, not Great

Revolutionary Etude and many other performers are good. However, Fanastie Impromptu I've heard performed much better. Raindrop Prelude is played okay, but the song is so low in volume that I can hardly hear it. Good deal though.

More like Three and a Half Stars

When I think of the piano, the first composer that comes to my mind is Chopin. Chopin was a composer who excelled in small form writing for the piano. He wrote beautiful melodies with complex accompaniment that was both challenging for the performer and enlightening for the listener. Chopin did not write many multi-movement pieces and what he did write is generally not as good as his solo piano pieces anyway (this is my opinion, not a fact).
When buying recordings of Chopin's music, there are basically two options. You can either go with a "Greatest Hits" type collection, which works very well with Chopin, or you can buy collections that assemble all he wrote for a certain form (preludes, nocturnes, etudes, etc...). If you are new to Chopin, I suggest buying a "Greatest Hits" collection, though not necessarily this one, even though this is the CD in my car right now. The playing is okay but it's nothing really that special. Considering all the masterful Chopin interpreters out there, such as Rubinstein, Ashkenazy, Argerich, Pollini, and Perahia, it seems silly not to start with a pianist that you really love, since almost every great pianist has recorded works by Chopin. Having said that, this collection contains almost all my favorite works by Chopin, my only complaint being I wish it had more than one nocturne. Thus it serves as a good introduction to Chopin's music. I would recommend the Favorite Chopin collection by Ashkenazy over this collection because not only is he an amazing pianist and a masterful interpreter of Chopin, but it's two discs for the price of one.

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Chopn's Greatest Hits

Not a good version of Les Sylphides (#17); which is only a 5 minute excerpt. Any other Les Sylphides pieces are sprinkled throughout the CD as piano.

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Tracks
Polonaise for piano No. 3 in A major ('Military'), Op. 40/1, CT. 152 | Waltz for piano No. 6 in D flat major ('Minute'), Op. 64/1, CT. 212 | Mazurka for piano No. 15 in C major, Op. 24/2, CT. 65 | Waltz for piano No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64/2, CT. 213 | Mazurka for piano No. 23 in D major, Op. 33/2, CT. 73 | Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46 | Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109 | Waltz for piano No. 11 in G flat major, Op. 70/1, CT. 217 | Prelude for piano No. 7 in A major, Op. 28/7, CT. 172 | Polonaise for piano No. 6 in A flat major ('Héroique'), Op. 53, CT. 155 | Etude for piano No. 3 in E major, Op. 10/3, CT. 16 | Prelude for piano No. 20 in C minor, Op. 28/20, CT. 185 | Prelude for piano No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28/15, CT. 180 | Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, CT. 202: Marche funèbre | Etude for piano No. 12 in C minor ('Revolutionary'), Op. 10/12, CT. 25 | Mazurka for piano No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 6/2, CT. 52 | Les sylphides, ballet (arrangement): Grand Valse Brillante | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, CT. 48: Allegro Vivace

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