4/5. Chopin in Love
"Is she really a woman?" Chopin is said to have asked after his first encounter with the novelist George Sand. This inauspicious moment heralded the start of a relationship that was to define most of Chopin's adult years. Donald Macleod uncovers the peculiarly maternal nature of their friendship and assesses its importance in providing the fragile composer with the support he needed for his talent to flourish.
Prelude No 14 in E flat minor
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
Nocturne in G, Op 37 No 2 Peter Katin (piano) Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor
Leif Ove Andsnes
Handsome Lad, Op 74 No 8; My Darling, Op 74 No 12 Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Charles Spencer (piano)
Barcarolle in F sharp, Op 60 Howard Shelley (piano)
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight