Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2011)

Piano quintet arrangements of Chopin's two piano concertos have been recorded several times, in several different versions. It's a little unclear whether this one was made by Chopin himself, but it dates from his own time; annotator Elisabeth Deckers states that the Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt "located the German first edition of the two piano concerto in the version for string quintet accompaniment. In order to capture the chamber-musical tone, the historically precise instrumentation employed and published by Chopin ... Read More

Piano quintet arrangements of Chopin's two piano concertos have been recorded several times, in several different versions. It's a little unclear whether this one was made by Chopin himself, but it dates from his own time; annotator Elisabeth Deckers states that the Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt "located the German first edition of the two piano concerto in the version for string quintet accompaniment. In order to capture the chamber-musical tone, the historically precise instrumentation employed and published by Chopin himself has been perfectly complemented on the solo piano." This is a bit murky, but it is doubtless true that an audience of the 19th century would have found such arrangements perfectly normal, and one's understanding of Chopin's universe is enhanced by hearing them. This said, transferring the full-scale piano-and-orchestra score to quintet dimensions is a difficult task: the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, relies in its opening movement on especially dramatic entrances, and... Read Less

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