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Composer of the Week: Chopin

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3/5. Chopin's best-known love affair was with the cross-dressing novelist George Sand. But, as Donald Macleod shows, there were several other significant women in the composer's life.
Melodia, Op 74 No 9 Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Charles Spencer (piano)
Polonaise Brilliante in C, Op 3
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
Waltz in D flat, Op 70 No 3 Garrick Ohlson (piano) Etudes, Op 10 (excerpts) Maurizio Pollini (piano) Waltz in A flat, Op 69 No /Allan Schiller (piano)
Nocturne in B, Op 32 No 1 Maria Joao Pires (piano) Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49 Solomon (piano) Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
George Sand.
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Urszula Kryger
Piano:
Charles Spencer
Piano:
Polonaise Brilliante
Cello:
Yo-Yo Ma
Cello:
Emanuel Ax
Piano:
Garrick Ohlson
Piano:
Maurizio Pollini
Piano:
Allan Schiller
Piano:
Maria Joao Pires
Source: Radio Times

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