Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & 25

KRZYSZTOF JABLONSKI

The form of Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 10 is clearly in three phases or parts. The principal melodic-figurational motif is exposed in the opening phase or part, transformed in the middle phase, often in a contrasting texture, and returns in the reprise, which is never explicit and ends with a coda, cadenza or epilogue. The history of the autographs of the Etudes, Op. 10 is rather complicated, but six of them were still held during the nineteenth century in the Konigliche Bibliothek, then the Preussische Staatsbibliothek, in Berlin. In 1949, on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Second World War, the Presidium of the German People’s Council handed them over ‘to the Polish nation, as a token of expiation.’ Donated to the National Museum, they were passed to the Fryderyk Chopin Society. Today, they are held in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum. On this release, the famous Krysztof Jablonski plays the complete Chopin Etudes Op. 10 and 25 in the interesting Fryderyk Chopin Institute series.

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