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"Chopin's two piano concertos have long been admired more as pianistic vehicles than as integrated works for piano and orchestra. But in his revelatory new recording, Krystian Zimerman suggests otherwise: The opening orchestral tuttis have so much more light, shade, orchestral color, and detail, you wonder if they've been rewritten. Every gesture, every instrumental solo is so specifically characterized that by the time the piano makes a dramatic entrance, the pieces have become operas without words.
Track Listing
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 11
Allegro Maestoso
Romance: Larghetto
Rondo: Vivace
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 2 In F Minor, Op. 21
Maestoso
Larghetto
Allegro Vivace