Kotaro Fukuma - Chopin: Autour des Ballades '2015

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante en Mi Bémol Majeur, Op. 22
02. Fantaisie-impromptu en Do Dièse Mineur, Op. 66
03. Ballade No. 1 en Sol Mineur, Op. 23
04. Valse No. 3 en La Mineur, Op. 34
05. Ballade No. 2 en Fa Majeur, Op. 38
06. Ballade No. 3 en La Bémol Majeur, Op. 47
07. Nocturne No. 13 en Do Mineur, Op. 48
08. Ballade No. 4 en Fa Mineur, Op. 52
09. Nocturne No. 4 en Fa Majeur, Op. 15
10. Étude No. 3 en Mi Majeur, Op. 10

After his trip to Spain (Iberia by Isaac Albéniz) and his Russian promenades
in the path of the Pictures from an Exhibition (by Modest Moussorgsky), Kotaro
Fukuma is travelling with Frédéric Chopin in the heart of European music.
In France, Chopins soul sings with a poetry which goes beyond all borders
(Grande Polonaise Brillante). His Four Ballades, composed in Vienna and Paris,
express alternating sentiments, an Odyssey of Chopins soul, as Liszt expressed
it (N°1): sadness, anxiety, dreaminess, serenity, elation, always enrobed in
beautiul and original harmonic modulations. The universality of the sentiments
expressed by the power of his art gives Chopins music an unsurpassable force. It
is a challenge to his interpreters to reveal this. Kotaro Fukuma has taken up
this challenge in his album Autour des Ballades.

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