Chopin Bel Canto - Chopin at 200 July 15, 2010

Works by: Chopin, Donizetti, Rossini, Bordogni, de Garaudé and transcriptions by: Viardot, Giacobetti, Rothmülle
When Chopin was a young man, bel canto opera was the most popular music in the world, and it was the music he loved best: "His playing," reported one pupil, "is based entirely on the singing of Pasta, Malibran and Rubini-he says so himself!" The last half-century has seen that music return to the mainstream after generations of neglect. Bel Canto at Caramoor celebrates the great composer's 200th birthday with a program combining the vocal music Chopin loved with the compositions in which he idealized and transformed it into his own unique language. The virtuoso Russian poet of the piano-Vassily Primakov-performs a selection of Chopin's Nocturnes, Mazurkas, a Ballade and a Waltz-works that solidified the composer's reputation as an absolute master of the piano.

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