Album guide
Cicero’s Chopin
- Composer
- Chopin
- Released
- 1966
- Label
- SABA
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Eugen Cicero, Peter Witte, Charly Antolini
Cicero said Chopin’s sadness and melancholy suited him, but he did not leave the music in one emotional world.
The C minor Prelude gains block chords and a hint of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, while the E minor Prelude turns towards Brazil and bossa nova.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Grande valse brillanteGrande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18
- Prelude in A majorPrelude, Op. 28 No. 7
- Waltz in C-sharp minorWaltz, Op. 64 No. 2
- Prelude in C minorPrelude, Op. 28 No. 20
- Étude in E majorÉtude, Op. 10 No. 3
- Prelude in E minorPrelude, Op. 28 No. 4