Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major

"With excellent and well balanced recording this goes straightaway to the top of my preferred performances of the Concerto. There is no sense of self-indulgence or of empty virtuosity; instead, we hear what the composer has written projected with beauty, wit and imagination. For me this is near the ideal in the performance of Chopin."
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Using the new Polish National Chopin Edition, acclaimed pianist Eldar Nebolsin and Poland's national orchestra conducted by the renowned Polish conductor Antoni Wit, here present fresh interpretations of Chopin's great works for piano and orchestra.

The Second Piano Concerto was written before the first and completed in 1830, the year in which the composer set out for Vienna and then Paris. Chopin's Variations on Là ci darem la mano, bear witness to his admiration for Mozart, instilled by his earliest teacher, the Bohemian Wojciech Žywny.

The Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat, Op. 22, was written in Vienna, and later augmented with the introductory Andante spianato.