Polonaise in B flat minor, KKIVa/5

composer

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

published in 1879; based on an air from Rossini's La gazza ladra

Recordings

Chopin: Demidenko plays Chopin

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

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Chopin: The Complete Works

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

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Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

Track 5 on CDS44351/66 CD6 [4'49] 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price)

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

Track 7 on CDH55183 [4'56] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Polonaise in B flat minor, KKIVa/5

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Polonaise No 15 in B flat minor was penned on the evening of 27 July 1826 – the day before Chopin’s departure for the spa town of Reinerz where he was to begin his summer holidays. He and a schoolfriend, Wilhelm Kolberg, had just been to a performance of Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra at the Warsaw Opera, an occasion recalled by the D flat trio (headed ‘Au revoir!’) which quotes one of Kolberg’s apparently favourite moments, the Act I cavatina ‘Vieni fra questa braccia’.

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