Album guide
Chopin Meets the Blues Live
- Composer
- Chopin
- Released
- 2015
- Label
- Challenge Records
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Peter Beets, Marius Beets, Martijn Vink, Gijs Dijkhuizen
Beets hears a direct line from Chopin’s singable melodies and melancholy chromatic turns to the “blue” notes of jazz and the language of bebop.
He made the six-track album from three concerts as an argument for that connection, not simply as a set of jazz arrangements.
Hear both
The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
The listening queues above follow the same order. The classical player omits tracks that are not based on a classical original.
Spotify’s player is here for convenience; the full track listing below remains available to everyone.
Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1
- Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
- Prelude in B minor, Op. 28 No. 6Prelude in B minor, Op. 28 No. 6
- Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
- Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4
- Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3