Janina Fialkowska - Chopin: Recital 3

Winner of the BBC Music Magazine's 2013 Instrumental CD of the Year award for Chopin Recital 2, 2016 marked the 65th birthday of Ms Fialkowska, which she celebrated, in typical fashion, by giving a year-long Birthday Celebration Tour.For over 40 years, concert pianist Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach and her unique piano sound thus becoming one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing.This next recital disc, Chopin 3 is a welcome addition to her recorded works; she is performing at the Wigmore Hall in London on 25th April 2017.On December 15, 1842, Frederic Chopin wrote to Breitkopf and Haertel, his publishers in Leipzig, offering them a newly composed Ballade and a Scherzo, and mentioning a new Impromptu. The pieces involved were the 4th Scherzo, the 4th Ballade, and the 3rd Impromptu, without a doubt three of the composer's greatest works.Janina Fialkowska's third Chopin Recital album is built around these late works. Also included is Chopin's final major work, the Polonaise-Fantaisie, a piece which stirs up wild and wishful speculations over the direction in which his compositional genius was heading before his fragile life came to its tragically premature end.