Chopin's mazurkas

[Peregrine]

Been enjoying this a lot the past week:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ruVA4kKpaAc&si=K3aTgl8VxWKrpvnn

Pletnev in Helsinki, 1993

[San Antone]

This is my go-to set of the mazurkas

Chopin: 57 Mazurkas
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)

Still my go-to set. 

[Herman]

The Warsaw Chopin Competition / Konkurs has just concluded, and naturally a ton of Mazurkas have been performed.

My personal favorites were Miyu Shindo's op 56 and Eric Lu's op 56 (Lu also happened to be the ultimate first prize winner).

[Mandryka]

It's streaming now - possibly the first time I've ever heard Rafal Blechacz. I think what he does is lovely actually. Dramatic.  I could enjoy the whole disc in fact, and that happens rarely.

It's the second new mazurka CD this year - the other one was Ingrid Filter - but I thought her rubato was too unnatural - I should go back to it and see if I can tolerate it better now.

[JBS]

It's streaming now - possibly the first time I've ever heard Rafal Blechacz. I think what he does is lovely actually. Dramatic.  I could enjoy the whole disc in fact, and that happens rarely.

I remember liking his Preludes and his Polonaises. He's also recorded the Sonatas but I skipped that--the Sonatas are, along with the Concertos, the part of Chopin's output I am least keen on.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

It's streaming now - possibly the first time I've ever heard Rafal Blechacz. I think what he does is lovely actually. Dramatic.  I could enjoy the whole disc in fact, and that happens rarely.

It's the second new mazurka CD this year - the other one was Ingrid Filter - but I thought her rubato was too unnatural - I should go back to it and see if I can tolerate it better now.

Fliter sounds very bright and slightly hard.