Chopin: Complete Mazurkas

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At her best, she is truly among the truly great. In this latest release her authority, imagination, pianistic command and stylistic flexibility are profoundly impressive...Texturally translucent,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: ACD22682
Label: Atma Classique
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 1 en fa dièse mineur, Op. 6 No. 1

Work length2:45

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Recorded: 2013-06-12
Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec

Chopin: Mazurka No. 2 en do dièse mineur, Op. 6 No. 2

Work length2:48

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 3 en mi majeur, Op. 6 No. 3

Work length1:53

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 4 en mi bémol mineur, Op. 6 No. 4

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 5 en si bémol majeur, Op. 7 No. 1

Work length2:25

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 6 en la mineur, Op. 7 No. 2

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 7 en fa mineur, Op. 7 No. 3

Work length3:00

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 8 en la bémol majeur, Op. 7 No. 4

Work length1:11

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 9 en do majeur, Op. 7 No. 5

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 10 en si bémol majeur, Op. 17 No. 1

Work length2:33

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 11 en mi mineur, Op. 17 No. 2

Work length2:03

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 12 en la bémol majeur, Op. 17 No. 3

Work length4:47

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 13 en la mineur, Op. 17 No. 4

Work length4:51

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 14 en sol mineur, Op. 24 No. 1

Work length2:57

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 15 en do majeur, Op. 24 No. 2

Work length2:19

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 16 en la bémol majeur, Op. 24 No. 3

Work length2:30

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 17 en si bémol mineur, Op. 24 No. 4

Work length4:42

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 18 en do mineur, Op. 30 No. 1

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 19 en si mineur, Op. 30 No. 2

Work length1:36

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 20 en ré bémol majeur, Op. 30 No. 3

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 21 en do dièse mineur, Op. 30 No. 4

Work length4:16

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 22 En Sol dièse mineur, Op. 33 No. 1

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 23 en ré majeur, Op. 33 No. 2

Work length2:37

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 24 en do majeur, Op. 33 No. 3

Work length2:19

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 25 en si mineur, Op. 33 No. 4

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 26 en do dièse mineur, Op. 41 No. 1

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 27 en mi mineur, Op. 41 No. 2

Work length2:32

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 28 en si majeur, Op. 41 No. 3

Work length1:16

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 29 en la bémol majeur, Op. 41 No. 4

Work length2:00

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 30 en sol majeur, Op. 50 No. 1

Work length2:42

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 31 en la bémol majeur, Op. 50 No. 2

Work length3:38

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 32 en do dièse mineur, Op. 50 No. 3

Work length5:24

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 33 en si majeur, Op. 56 No. 1

Work length4:32

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 34 en do majeur, Op. 56 No. 2

Work length1:35

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 35 en do mineur, Op. 56 No. 3

Work length6:32

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 36 en la mineur, Op. 59 No. 1

Work length4:04

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 37 en la bémol majeur, Op. 59 No. 2

Work length2:43

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Recorded: 2013-06-12
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 38 en fa dièse mineur, Op. 59 No. 3

Work length3:37

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 39 en si majeur, Op. 63 No. 1

Work length2:26

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 40 en fa mineur, Op. 63 No. 2

Work length1:57

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 41 en do dièse mineur, Op. 63 No. 3

Work length2:14

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 51 en la mineur, ' À Emile Gaillard '

Work length2:26

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 50 en la mineur, ' Notre Temps '

Work length3:43

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Chopin: Mazurka No. 56 en si bémol majeur, Op. Posth., WN 7

Work length1:57

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 55 en sol majeur, Op. Posth. WN 8

Work length1:34

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 47 en la mineur, Op. Posth. 68 No. 2, WN 14

Work length3:00

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Recorded: 2013-06-12
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 46 en do majeur, Op. Posth. 68 No. 1, WN 24

Work length1:35

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 48 en fa majeur, Op. Posth. 68 No. 3, WN 25

Work length1:51

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Recorded: 2013-06-12
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 42 en sol majeur, Op. Posth. 67 No. 1, WN 26

Work length1:11

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 59 en si bémol majeur, Op. Posth. WN 41

Work length1:12

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 62 en la bémol majeur, Op. Posth. WN 45

Work length1:24

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 44 en do majeur, Op. Posth. 67 No. 3, WN 48

Work length1:36

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 45 en la mineur, Op. Posth. 67 No. 4, WN 60

Work length3:14

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 43 en sol mineur, Op. Posth. 67 No. 2, WN 64

Work length2:09

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
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Chopin: Mazurka No. 49 en fa mineur, Op. Posth. 68 No. 4, WN 65

Work length3:26

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Janina Fialkowska (piano)
Recorded: 2013-06-12
Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec

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Unlike his close contemporaries Schumann and Liszt, Chopin was not prone to putting his innermost thoughts and emotions on display for general public consumption; doing so was aesthetically alien to his nature. Not for him were the conflicts of Florestan and Eusebius, so eloquently portrayed in the troubled Schumann’s compositions, or the Faustian dilemma ever-present in Liszt’s outpourings. No, Chopin kept his feelings close to his heart and most definitely not on his sleeve. He was only reluctantly a participant in the Romantic Era, but in spite of his personal reticence, the feelings of this tragic genius eventually found their way into his compositions, and nowhere more so than in his mazurkas.

Through the mazurkas the essence of Chopin is revealed. In these compositions we find him at his most original and daring, and in them he ranges over the widest possible spectrum of emotion and pianistic color. Chopin did not invent the mazurka. A 16th-century peasant dance originating in the province of Mazowsze in Poland and accompanied usually by the dudy (a bagpipe), the mazurka had a delightfully syncopated rhythm in 3/4 time and could be either sung o danced. Originally, mazurkas comprised three kinds of folk dance: the fast accented oberek, the elusive kujawiak (the predecessor of what we know as mazurka form), and the mazur, filled with Slavic sentiment and zal— a unique Polish word describing nostalgia verging on despair.

By the early 19th century, the mazurka dance form had spread across Europe, reaching both Paris — where it was much appreciated by the aristocracy—and England.

The great French composer Hector Berlioz, after hearing his friend Chopin play some of his mazurkas wrote the following:

“There are unbelievable details in his mazurkas and he has found how to render them doubly interesting by playing them with the utmost degree of softness, piano in the extreme, the hammers merely brushing the strings, so much so that one is tempted to go close to the instrument and put one’s ear to it as if to a concert of sylphs or elves”

The legendary Arthur Rubinstein called Janina Fiakowlska “a born Chopin interpreter.” On this recording, she returns with a two CD set devoted to the complete mazurkas of Frédéric Chopin.

This recording by one of the world’s great Chopin interpreters at the culmination of her long and celebrated career will be a milestone for music lovers, and especially for connoisseurs of Chopin’s works.

Fialkowksa’s 2012 Chopin Recital II recording on ATMA Classique won a prestigious BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Instrumental Recording.

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February 2015

At her best, she is truly among the truly great. In this latest release her authority, imagination, pianistic command and stylistic flexibility are profoundly impressive...Texturally translucent, melodically compelling, formally gripping, expressively comprehensive - keeping all this in balance, without cost to the music's spontaneity and variety, is a major achievement.

13th December 2014

[Fialkowska] says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a glimpse of paradise” — in which case the other world must be for her a place of unvarnished beauty and simple truth...There is little searching for exaggerated effects in her playing, or even the reverential intimacy some pianists have favoured in recordings.

January 2015

Rubinstein, her longtime mentor, would have been the first to admire her unfailing musical honesty, her refreshing alternative to self-conscious sophistication...you will find an impressive blend of sense and sensibility from Fialkowska, who is well recorded and presented.

Chopin: Complete Mazurkas

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