Description: Tradition has it that Chopin imagined the A major Polonaise functioning as a coronation polonaise. It bears the character of heroic military music, evoking for many interpreters the sounds of a snare drum in a festive parade or a royal ceremony.

Description: The principal theme of Frederic Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brilliante in E-flat major, Op. 22 combines soaring flight with spirit and verve, bravura with elegance - all of those features that characterize a dance in the style brillant. As befits a composition in the brillant style, the work is rounded off with a dazzling, refulgent coda. The end result is a work in grand style, par excellence virtuosic. The piece is a magnificent example of the genre. Played with the utmost fluency, subtlety and sensitivity to the beauty of the sound, it achieves exemplary elegance, freedom, and freshness.

Description: The principal theme of Frederic Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brilliante in E-flat major, Op. 22 combines soaring flight with spirit and verve, bravura with elegance - all of those features that characterize a dance in the style brillant. As befits a composition in the brillant style, the work is rounded off with a dazzling, refulgent coda. The end result is a work in grand style, par excellence virtuosic. The piece is a magnificent example of the genre. Played with the utmost fluency, subtlety and sensitivity to the beauty of the sound, it achieves exemplary elegance, freedom, and freshness.

Description: The principal theme of Frederic Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brilliante in E-flat major, Op. 22 combines soaring flight with spirit and verve, bravura with elegance - all of those features that characterize a dance in the style brillant. As befits a composition in the brillant style, the work is rounded off with a dazzling, refulgent coda. The end result is a work in grand style, par excellence virtuosic. The piece is a magnificent example of the genre. Played with the utmost fluency, subtlety and sensitivity to the beauty of the sound, it achieves exemplary elegance, freedom, and freshness.

Description: Frdric Chopins Largo in E flat major, Op. posth. has the the melody of the song God, Thou who Poland that Chopin played at church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthem-like melody is calm, yet stately, prideful, and elevated.

Description: Frdric Chopins Largo in E flat major, Op. posth. has the the melody of the song God, Thou who Poland that Chopin played at church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthem-like melody is calm, yet stately, prideful, and elevated.

Description: Frdric Chopins Largo in E flat major, Op. posth. has the the melody of the song God, Thou who Poland that Chopin played at church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthem-like melody is calm, yet stately, prideful, and elevated.

Description: Frdric Chopins Largo in E flat major, Op. posth. has the the melody of the song God, Thou who Poland that Chopin played at church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthem-like melody is calm, yet stately, prideful, and elevated.

Description: Frdric Chopins Largo in E flat major, Op. posth. has the the melody of the song God, Thou who Poland that Chopin played at church during his final year at the Warsaw Lyceum. The anthem-like melody is calm, yet stately, prideful, and elevated.

Description: Frdric Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 has a rhythmic freedom that came to characterize Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand moves with freedom in patterns of seven, eleven, twenty, and twenty-two notes. The opening section moves into a contrasting middle section, which flows back to the opening material in a transitional passage where the melody floats above seventeen consecutive bars of D-flat major chords. The reprise of the first section grows out of this and the nocturne concludes peacefully with a Picardy third.