Album guide
Jazz’in Chopin
- Composer
- Chopin
- Released
- 2003
- Label
- Jazzvalley.com
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Peter Herbert, Karl Jannuska and Serge Forté
Forté does not merely give the “Revolutionary” Étude one jazz treatment: he pulls it apart across five consecutive tracks, making it the album’s centre of gravity.
That extended sequence sits between smaller studies of Chopin’s Ballade, Mazurka and preludes.
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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 classical player follows each source once, in album order. One performance of the “Revolutionary” Étude covers the five-part Suite Révolutionnaire, which the album spreads across tracks six to ten.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Étude n°6Étude in E-flat minor, Op. 10 No. 6
- Prélude n°7/BerceusePrélude in A major, Op. 28 No. 7; Chopin: Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57
- Ballade n°1Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
- Andante SpianatoAndante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22
- Mazurka n°4Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
- Suite Révolutionnaire: Part 1Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
- Suite Révolutionnaire: Part 2Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
- Suite Révolutionnaire: Part 3Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
- Suite Révolutionnaire: Part 4Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
- Suite Révolutionnaire: Part 5Étude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
- Prélude n°4Prélude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4