Chopin´s Mazurkas

[ALVARO_M]

I want to play a mazurka but I don´t now wich to play.

anybody can tell me wich Mazurka is te best?

[allchopin]

Top 3 best are:
#2 Op. 24 in C
#3 Op. 68 in F
#1 Op. 7 in F

[BoliverAllmon]

Chopin's endless Mazurka is quite fun to play, because you can repeat it as many times as you want before finishing, but don't recommend it for a recital or anything. It is very easy.

boliver

[allchopin]

Most of them are like that I suppose... which is this?

[BoliverAllmon]

I don't have my books with me. All i remember is that it is in C major and is basically blocked chords in the bass with some triplets in the treble. It is only a page long.

boliver

[eddie92099]

don't recommend it for a recital or anything. It is very easy.

What's wrong with playing easy pieces in a recital?
Ed

[thracozaag]

Chopin's endless Mazurka is quite fun to play, because you can repeat it as many times as you want before finishing, but don't recommend it for a recital or anything. It is very easy.

boliver

 "In order to perform all the chopin Mazuraks, one would have to harness a major pianist of first rank or every one of them"--Franz Liszt

[Dave_2004_G]

Eh I don't get that quote  :-/

Dave

[BoliverAllmon]

There is nothing wrong with playing easy pieces in a recital. This piece is beyond easy though. Like Schumann's album of the young easy. It took me about 10 min. to learn.

boliver

[eddie92099]

There is nothing wrong with playing easy pieces in a recital. This piece is beyond easy though. Like Schumann's album of the young easy. It took me about 10 min. to learn.

Schumann's About Strange Lands and People took me as long to learn as it did to play, and I had no qualms about playing it for audition at the Royal Academy of Music,
Ed

[BoliverAllmon]

well, to each his own.

boliver

[thracozaag]

Eh I don't get that quote  :-/

Dave

 What's not to get?  You have to have a first rate pianist trained to play EACH one.  That's how difficult they are.

[DAwud7]

I agree with eddie on that one, i luv that schumann piece it was the first piece i ever learned. The liszt quote is great. How long are all the mazurkas combined istn there like 56 of them.

[BoliverAllmon]

rubinstein did all the mazurkas in a 3 cd set I believe or maybe it was 5.

boliver

[eddie92099]

rubinstein did all the mazurkas in a 3 cd set I believe or maybe it was 5.

Ashkenazy managed to fit them on to two discs, so either he plays them much faster or you are mistaken,
Ed

[BoliverAllmon]

I could be mistaken or it could be just 3 cd's

boliver

[pianowolfi]

 "In order to perform all the chopin Mazuraks, one would have to harness a major pianist of first rank or every one of them"--Franz Liszt

QFT   

[daniloperusina]

 "In order to perform all the chopin Mazuraks, one would have to harness a major pianist of first rank or every one of them"--Franz Liszt

Totally agree.
And this goes for performing any one of them. They are maybe Chopin's most musically challenging pieces. Some of them are maybe not so "technically" challenging (in the 'etude' way of thinking), but to play those musical lines they contain well, you really need to be a first-class pianist and, specifically, great interpreter of Chopin's Mazurkas. Don't let anyone fool you into beleiving anything else. Period.

[madvillain]

One of my favorites