Chopin. Best mazurka performances 1927–2015 - Polish Radio Awards - NIFCCD 635-636

Just to highly recommend this absolute treasure chest of revelatory Chopin Mazurkas released by the National Chopin Institute. I could not possibly review every one of these outstanding performances but each is an eloquent and idiomatic approach. Historical recordings to the present.

This two-album release of 'Best Mazurkas' is a collection of Chopin's most intimate works in the interpretations of the prizewinners of the prestigious and perceptive Polish Radio Award for the best performance of mazurkas in the International Chopin Competition. The recordings are an interesting perspective, a multitude of interpretations of the Polish idiom in those fascinating pieces; performances of artists who sometimes come from very distant cultures surprise us with their freshness despite time irresistibly passing. They are frequently a new reading of the composer's intentions.

Great and important names of the world pianism are all to be found on this one blue release:

Henryk Sztompka, Alexander Uninsky, Yakov Zak, Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Fou Ts’ong, Irina Zaritskaya, Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Krystian Zimerman, Dang Thai Son, Ewa Pobłocka, Marc Laforèt, Rafał Blechacz, Daniil Trifonov and Kate Liu.

Do try and purchase one ...

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1.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in E minor, Op. 41 No. 1; ( Henryk Sztompka )

2.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 41 No. 3; ( Henryk Sztompka )

3.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in G major, Op. 50 No. 1; ( Henryk Sztompka )

4.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 50 No. 2; ( Henryk Sztompka )

5.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3; ( Henryk Sztompka )

6.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 1; ( Alexandre Uninsky )

7.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3; ( Alexandre Uninsky )

8.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C minor, Op. 30 No. 1; ( Yakov Zak )

9.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3; ( Yakov Zak )

10.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 3; ( Halina Czerny-Stefańska )

11.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4; ( Halina Czerny-Stefańska )

12.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4; ( Halina Czerny-Stefańska )

13.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 68 No. 1; ( Halina Czerny-Stefańska )

14.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3; ( Ts'ong Fou )

15.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1; ( Ts'ong Fou )

16.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4; ( Ts'ong Fou )

17.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 1; ( Irina Zaritskaya )

18.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 3; ( Irina Zaritskaya )

19.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3; ( Irina Zaritskaya )

20.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1; ( Martha Argerich )

21.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 59 No. 2; ( Martha Argerich )

22.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3; ( Martha Argerich )

23.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in E minor, Op. 41 No. 1; ( Garrick Ohlsson )

24.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 41 No. 3; ( Garrick Ohlsson )

25.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 41 No. 4; ( Garrick Ohlsson )

26.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in G minor, Op. 24 No. 1; ( Krystian Zimerman )

27.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2; ( Krystian Zimerman )

28.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in B flat minor, Op. 24 No. 4; ( Krystian Zimerman )

29.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1; ( Dang Thai Son )

30.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 59 No. 2; ( Dang Thai Son )

31.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3; ( Dang Thai Son )

32.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1; ( Ewa Pobłocka )

33.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 59 No. 2; ( Ewa Pobłocka )

34.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3; ( Ewa Pobłocka )

35.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 1; ( Marc Laforêt )

36.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 3; ( Marc Laforêt )

37.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 33 No. 2; ( Marc Laforêt )

38.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4; ( Marc Laforêt )

39.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in B major, Op. 56 No. 1; ( Rafał Blechacz )

40.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 56 No. 2; ( Rafał Blechacz ) 

41.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3; ( Rafał Blechacz )

42.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in B major, Op. 56 No. 1; ( Daniil Trifonov )

43.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 56 No. 2; ( Daniil Trifonov )

44.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3; ( Daniil Trifonov )

45.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in B major, Op. 56 No. 1; ( Kate Liu )

46.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 56 No. 2; ( Kate Liu )

47.Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3; ( Kate Liu )