Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849)
5. As love fades
Friday 22 October 2004 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Friday 29 October 2004 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod charts the final years of Chopin's career, in which he found himself without the incalculable support of his lover George Sand. It proved to be an eventful closing chapter, as witnessed by the mixed fortunes of a British concert tour, a brush with disaster in a road accident, and the eventual release brought by death after a life blighted by physical fragility.
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Prelude no.20
Maria Joćo Pires (piano)
DG 437 817-2 t23
Polonaise-Fantaisie op.61 (1845-46)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 413 795-2 t7
Cello Sonata (1845-6)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emmanuel Ax (piano)
Sony SK35112 t6-9
Ballade no.4 op.52 (1842)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67456 t7
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