Chopin/ Farkas - Ballades & Impromptus Release:Ballades & Impromptus Hungaroton as well as Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling's

as well as Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling's Partita

of the great violinist Joseph Joachim

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Chopin/ Farkas - Ballades & Impromptus Release:Ballades & Impromptus Hungaroton as well as Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling'sThe piano ballade is Chopin's invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopin's free improvisations, (improvisations: "impromptu") were seemingly "piano pieces" without genre;