Chopin: The Complete Waltzes

including the 2024 discovery in a New York library of a new Waltz in A minor

Stephen Hough’s account of the complete waltzes of Chopin has long been considered a favourite version of these much-recorded works. A commercial and critical success since its release in 2011, it is reissued in April 2025—and with a very special reason. In the spring of 2024 a postcard-sized music manuscript was discovered in New York’s Morgan Library & Museum. Written in Chopin’s hand, the manuscript contained a previously unknown ‘Valse’. A lost Chopin waltz? Hough’s recording of the piece and its addition to his album of the composer’s waltzes—now once again genuinely complete—gives listeners the opportunity to enjoy a ‘new’ work by Chopin.

CDA68479 60 minutes 21 seconds

‘Launching his latest album with the earliest of waltzes to which Chopin gave an opus number, Stephen Hough sets a sparkling tone for what follows on this altogether brilliant disc … Hough is a p ...
‘Hough's decision to record the eight published waltzes in chronological order allows us to gain a feel for Chopin's glorious development in this genre … essential listening’ (The Observer)
‘Chopin’s waltzes are salon pieces, but always more than salon pieces, and Hough brings an astonishing range of touch to them. All those sophisticated inner parts and harmonic shifts are brought out w ...