Title from container. Arthur Rubinstein, piano. Recorded in concert Oct. 1, 1964, Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Includes spoken introductions to several of the works in Russian. Bonus material: performances of Rubinstein playing excerpts from two of Chopin's Etudes op. 25, in real time as well as in slow motion, from the 1928 silent film "Le Piano révélé par le film" directed by Michel Hirvy and Louta Nouneberg.
Contents:
Polonaise in F sharp minor, op. 44 ; Impromptu in G flat major, op. 51 ; Nocturne in D flat major, op. 27, no. 2 ; Piano sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35 ; Barcarolle in F sharp major, op. 60 ; Etude in A flat major, op. 25, no. 1 ; Etude in G flat major, op. 10, no. 5 ; Etude in E minor, op. 25, no. 5 ; Etude in C sharp minor, op. 10, no. 4 ; Waltz in A minor, op. 34, no. 2 ; Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53 : "Heroic" / Frédéric Chopin -- Des Abends : from Fantasiestücke, op. 12 / Robert Schumann -- Waltz in A flat major, op. 34, no. 1 / Chopin -- Ondine : from Preludes, book II / Claude Debussy -- Polichinello : from Prole do bebê, no. 1 / Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Bonus: Fragment de l'étude en mi mineur, op. 25 [no. 5] ; Fragment de l'étude en ut mineur, op. 25 [no. 12] / de Chopin.
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