Timo Jouko Herrmann, who orchestrated Chopin's '3rd Piano Concerto' for this album, is an internationally recognized Salieri specialist and has received numerous awards for his compositions.
Composition History
Chopin's 'Allegro de concert, Op. 46' was originally conceived as the first movement of a piano concerto, but he published it as a solo version in 1841.
Performer Biography
The Heidelberger Sinfoniker, the orchestra on this album, are known for their focus on Viennese classical music and early German romanticism, and have received an OPUS Klassik award for their Haydn symphonies box set.
Recording & Production
The orchestration of Chopin's '3rd Piano Concerto' by Timo Jouko Herrmann for this album uses an orchestral scoring that corresponds to Chopin's E minor concerto, including valveless horns and trumpets.
Compositional Technique
Chopin's 'Boléro, Op. 19' combines characteristics of both the Spanish boléro and the Polish polonaise, leading some to describe it as a 'boléro à la polonaise'.
Composition History
Chopin's '3rd Piano Concerto in A major' exists today as a solo piano piece, the 'Allegro de concert, Op. 46', which he reworked ten years after its initial conception.
Composer Biography
Frédéric Chopin, the composer, never returned to his homeland of Poland after leaving before a nationalist uprising against Russian domination.
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