Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Peter Jablonski

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60:
• 1 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60: No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor 02:52
• 2 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60: No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor 02:34
• 3 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60: No. 3 in E Major 01:50
• 4 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6, B. 60: No. 4 in E-Flat Minor 00:51
• 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61:
• 5 Chopin: 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 5 in B-Flat Major 02:09
• 6 Chopin: 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 6 in A Minor 03:38
• 7 Chopin: 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 7 in F Minor 02:21
• 8 Chopin: 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 8 in A-Flat Major 01:09
• 9 Chopin: 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7, B. 61: No. 9 in C Major 00:43
• 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77:
• 10 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 10 in B-Flat Major 02:22
• 11 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 11 in E Minor 02:03
• 12 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 12 in A-Flat Major 04:47
• 13 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17, B. 77: No. 13 in A Minor 04:17
• 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24, B. 89:
• 14 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24, B. 89: No. 14 in G Minor 02:52
• 15 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24, B. 89: No. 15 in C Major 02:15
• 16 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24, B. 89: No. 16 in A-Flat Major 02:15
• 17 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24, B. 89: No. 17 in B-Flat Minor 04:51
• 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, B. 105:
• 18 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, B. 105: No. 18 in C Minor 01:44
• 19 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, B. 105: No. 19 in B Minor 01:29
• 20 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, B. 105: No. 20 in D-Flat Major 02:45
• 21 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, B. 105: No. 21 in C-Sharp Minor 03:43
• 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, B. 115:
• 22 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, B. 115: No. 22 in G-Sharp Minor 01:38
• 23 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, B. 115: No. 23 in D Major 02:30
• 24 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, B. 115: No. 24 in C Major 01:57
• 25 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, B. 115: No. 25 in B Minor 05:20
• 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41:
• 26 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 26 in E Minor 02:14
• 27 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 27 in B Major 01:16
• 28 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 28 in A-Flat Major 02:01
• 29 Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41: No. 29 in C-Sharp Minor 03:26
• Total Runtime 01:13:52

Info for Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol. 1

Internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is known as a fervent champion of Polish music. In this album Jablonski returns to some of his dearest piano music – Chopin’s Mazurkas. For Chopin, the Mazurkas became a deeply personal, intimate statement of his feelings as an émigré Polish composer living in Paris. From some of his very first compositions to his last, it is the only form that Chopin composed regularly throughout his life. Similarly, Chopin’s Mazurkas have followed Peter Jablonski throughout his entire career as a pianist in nearly every solo recital.

This new album includes Chopin’s first 29 numbered Mazurkas mainly written between 1830 and 1839. Chopin himself assembled mazurkas in opuses meant for publication, with a dramaturgical concept that emerges clearly already from Op. 17, undergoes development in Op. 24, and reaches its peak in Op. 41, often considered to be the most cohesive set of all. Chopin balances moods and tempi relationships between the pieces in each set more and more carefully. Interestingly, Chopin almost never used authentic folk material, but created folk-like themes of his own. Chopin gave very clear indications in his scores, but never played his own works in the same way twice. He told his students to put their soul into the music they were playing, to trust their own musical intuition. To him, it was important to find the essence of the work, to allow it to live and breathe. The mazurkas demand elegance, spirit, careful attention to tempi, colours, rubato (the elusive mazurka lilt), dynamics, and pedalling. In his mazurkas Chopin found a way to be at his most personal, vulnerable, and intimate. One might say that they are his musical diary.

Peter Jablonski, piano

Peter Jablonski
is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few.

He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed an ‘unconventional virtuoso’ (Present Arts), during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse repertoire that includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such Scandinavian and European composers as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Johanna Müller-Hermann, and Alexey Stanchinsky.

He worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works, together with those that have been neglected by music history.

Jablonski’s extensive discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, Octavia, and Ondine labels. He received numerous awards for his recordings, which include the Edison award for best concerto recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Lutoslawski’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ashkenazy and RPO for Decca. He was presented with the Grammophone Classical Music Award for his Deutsche Grammophone recording of works by Cécile Chaminade with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg.

Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of a prestigious prize Svenskar i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren.

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