Details
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat major, Op.61
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in B major, Op.9 no. 3
Frédéric Chopin – Impromptu no.2 in F sharp major, Op.36
Frédéric Chopin – Prelude in F sharp minor, Op.28 no.8
Frédéric Chopin – Mazurkas, Op.50
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade no.4 in F minor, Op.52
Performers
Janina Fialkowska – piano
Programme Note
‘Chopin’s main means of expression’, observed the Russian author Boris Pasternak, ‘… was melody, melody that was more genuine and more powerful than any other we know’.
Few can match Janina Fialkowska’s compassionate engagement with Chopin’s art, directed in this recital to a programme that reflects the composer’s profound feeling for the higher reaches of the human spirit.