About this release

This year sees a refreshed Chopin Edition from Brilliant Classics, retaining many of the definitive recordings from its predecessor of 2015 (94660) but boasting some exiting updates.

The Concertos and piano concertante music are consolidated in a bright new cycle from Czechia, recorded last autumn by Siberian superstar Ekaterina Litvintseva and the KFPar under Mardirossian.

Schmitt-Leonardy’s sonatas are joined by No.1 – recorded late in 2015 and therefore just missing inclusion in the previous edition – bringing the complete cycle under his fingers.

Alwin Bär’s own Scherzi performances are reunited with his iconic 1998 recording of the Barcarolle, Fantasy and Berceuse.

The Études are featured in a stunning complete cycle recorded in 2014 by the phenomenal Chopinist and 2023 OPUS KLASSIK double-nominee Zlata Chochieva.

Finally the complete Nocturnes are given over to another noted young Chopin interpreter, the 2018 Geza Anda winner Claire Huangci, who recorded the set two years earlier, in 2016.

Other information:

· Recordings from 1996–2022
· Booklet in English contains essays by Ateş Orga

– This 17-CD set presents the complete works by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): the piano solo works, the works for piano & orchestra, chamber music and songs.
– Chopin is one of the most popular and universally best loved composers of all times. The piano works of the Polish master touch the heart chords of every listener and music lover around the world, they speak the universal language of beauty, melancholy, tenderness and passion.
– This Edition, based on the previously released Edition of 2015, contains some marked changes: the Etudes are played by Zlata Chochieva, a recording for which she received a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and featured in the “50 best Chopin Recordings of All Time”. The works for piano and orchestra are brand new and played by the brilliant Ekaterina Litvintseva (“a notable moment in the history of Chopin interpretation” (Fanfare). The Nocturnes are played by Claire Huangci. Unchanged in the Edition are the stunning performances of the Ballades, Impromptus and Preludes by Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (“fusion of impassioned ardor and classical textual rigor”, Jed Distler on Classicstoday.com).