Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Adam Harasiewicz, Piano
Kazimierz Kord, Conductor
Warsaw National Philharmonic
Released 1991
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ONE-SENTENCE REVIEW:
Um… this is from the Laserlight CD-ROM collection from the early 1990s that was supposed to be the interactive future of classical music (follow along with the notes on your computer) but didn’t really last and this disc is pretty terrible.
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NO LINER NOTES (But here’s a little info on Chopin):
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810 – 1849)
Frédéric François Chopin (born March 1, 1810 –October 17, 1949) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.”
Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland.
A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his early works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at age 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising; at 21, he settled in Paris.
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TRACK LISTING :
Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849)
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR, OP. 21
- I. Maestoso [13:17]
- II. Larghetto [8:24]
- III. Allegro vivace [8:04]
FINAL THOUGHT:
From what I remember (35 years ago!), the CD-ROM features never really worked and impossible to know anymore because who the F has a CD-ROM! I should give it a better rating for the performance by Adam Harasiewicz but the recording quality is terrible.
Emily Sachs – President – Manka Music Group (A division of Manka Bros. Studios – The World’s Largest Media Company