CHOPIN, Frédéric François: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Op 21, II. Larghetto скачать в хорошем качестве

CHOPIN, Frédéric François: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor Op 21, II. Larghetto

Soloist Rosemary Barnes. Ensemble Polymnia conducted by Sarah Bisley. Live recording by Franco Viganoni, at www.viganoni.com. Poland was effectively reduced by the 1816 Congress of Vienna to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, and was subjected to Russian oppression under Tsar Nicolai I. In 1830 a rebellion was mounted from within against the occupiers. It was against this background that Chopin, near the end of his student days in Warsaw, wrote two Concerti for piano – No.1 in E Minor and No.2 in F Minor. The F Minor Concerto (actually written first) was first performed on 3rd March 1830, by a small orchestra gathered by the composer in his family’s drawing room, with Karol Kurpinski conducting. Reviews treated this performance as a public event, with the Universal Daily stating that “The creative spirit of the young composer has taken the path of genius… in the originality of his thought [the critic] could glimpse the profundity of Beethoven, and in the execution the art and pleasing qualities of Hummel…”. Chopin moved to Paris in 1831, never to return to his home country. Like Tchaikovsky, he was honoured with a State funeral of massive proportions. In the words of Adam Zamoyski, “The language Chopin’s music speaks is perhaps the most intimate in the whole canon of Western music…taken as a whole, his life itself epitomises the notion of the Romantic artist – of the ethereal exile from heaven, half man half angel, who comes into this life to inspire mankind, but does not belong here…”.