Mazurka in A minor, Op. 68 No. 2

The Mazurkas, like the Polonaises, are the compositions closest to Chopin’s Polish roots. In fact, many Chopin scholars say the Mazurkas are Chopin at his most personal, experimental, and confessional: “In his Mazurkas, you get to know the very soul of Poland and Chopin never forgot his home land or the poor farmers singing [...]

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Étude in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2

The world of music had never before known any études as original, as musical, or as difficult. – Frank Cooper

This is one of the best-known (and arguably, the most difficult!) of the set of twelve études Chopin dedicated to Franz Liszt. The Études were published in a single volume in 1833, when Chopin was 23, although [...]

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