Chopin – Ballade No. 1 – Krystian Zimerman, Piano

Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23, composed in 1831 during the composer’s early years in Vienna, was a reflection about his loneliness in the city far away from his home in Poland, where a war was happening against the Russian Empire’s oppression. The term ballade was used by Chopin in the sense of a balletic interlude or dance-piece, equivalent to the old Italian ballata, but the term may also have connotations of the medieval heroic ballad, a narrative minstrel-song, often of a fantastical character. – Krystian Zimerman

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