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Zbiór spiewów polskich – Kompozycji Fryderyka Chopina, S480
composer
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
1847/1860; Op 74 Nos 1, 2, 14, 4, 12, 15
composer
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
1860

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

Recordings
'Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 5 – Saint-Saëns, Chopin & Berlioz Transcriptions' (CDA66346)
Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 5 – Saint-Saëns, Chopin & Berlioz Transcriptions
Leslie Howard (piano)
'Liszt: Complete Piano Music' (CDS44501/98)
Liszt: Complete Piano Music
Leslie Howard (piano)
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'Moriz Rosenthal – The complete recordings' (APR7503)
Moriz Rosenthal – The complete recordings
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
'Paderewski – His earliest recordings' (APR6006)
Paderewski – His earliest recordings
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
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No 1 (Op 74 No 1): Zyczenie 'The Maiden's Wish'
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
Track 13 on APR6006 CD2 [4'17] 2CDs for the price of 1
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
Track 18 on APR6006 CD2 [4'18] 2CDs for the price of 1
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 21 on APR7503 CD1 [4'42] 5CDs
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 22 on APR7503 CD1 [4'45] 5CDs
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 8 on APR7503 CD3 [4'40] 5CDs
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 11 on APR7503 CD4 [4'35] 5CDs
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 2 on CDA66346 [3'26]
Track 2 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [3'26] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
No 2 (Op 74 No 2): Wiosna 'Spring'
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 3 on CDA66346 [2'16]
Track 3 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [2'16] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
No 3 (Op 74 No 14): Pierscien 'The ring'
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 4 on CDA66346 [3'03]
Track 4 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [3'03] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
No 4 (Op 74 No 4): Hulanka 'Drinking song'
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 5 on CDA66346 [1'41]
Track 5 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [1'41] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
No 5 (Op 74 No 12): Moja pieszczotka 'My darling' (first version)
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 1 on APR7503 CD2 [4'17] 5CDs
Moriz Rosenthal (piano)
Track 8 on APR7503 CD5 [4'21] 5CDs
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 6 on CDA66346 [2'19]
Track 6 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [2'19] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
No 6 (Op 74 No 15): Narzeczony 'The bridegroom'
Leslie Howard (piano)
Track 7 on CDA66346 [1'33]
Track 7 on CDS44501/98 CD52 [1'33] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Zbiór spiewów polskich – Kompozycji Fryderyka Chopina, S480
Chopin’s relationship with Liszt was often a stormy affair, but the mutual respect was firm enough, no better shown than by Liszt’s efforts to be Chopin’s first biographer—and the book is by no means as bad as some critics have attested!—and by the time and care which Liszt put into these Six Polish songs. The songs are certainly the only really neglected part of Chopin’s output (can it be simply because most singers are unfamiliar with Polish?) and here, as in dozens of other cases, Liszt seeks to propagate that which he already knows to be first-rate. In The Wish (often called The Maiden’s Wish in older editions), the simple melody is treated to elaborate variations which in some way illuminate the original text, which describes a girl who, in turn, would be the sun, or a bird, in order to show her love. Spring is an artless little poem about love, life and the spring, which Liszt arranges in the simplest way. The Ring and Merrymaking (also known as Drinking Song) are both mazurkas, and Liszt joins them together, pausing to quote the first, which speaks of a jilted boyfriend, towards the end of the second, where love is seen as less reliable than drinking. Liszt captures Chopin’s expanded mood exactly in My Darling (My Joys, as it has been strangely rendered) and the poem of desire breaks forth in operatic grandeur, while the last song, The Bridegroom (The Return Home) is made into a magnificent little symphonic sketch, far outreaching Chopin’s handling of the text, which describes the vain ride through the windswept forest of the bridegroom who will not reach his bride before she dies.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1989

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Details for CDS44501/98 disc 52 track 4
No 3 (Op 74 No 14): Pierscien 'The ring'
Artists
Leslie Howard (piano)
ISRC
GB-AJY-90-34604
Duration
3'03
Recording date
5 January 1989
Recording venue
St Peter's Church, Petersham, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Martin Compton
Recording engineer
Tryggvi Tryggvason
Hyperion usage
  1. Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 5 – Saint-Saëns, Chopin & Berlioz Transcriptions (CDA66346)
    Disc 1 Track 4
    Release date: February 1990
  2. Liszt: Complete Piano Music (CDS44501/98)
    Disc 52 Track 4
    Release date: February 2011
    99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)
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