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Whats the best one to you?

Ballade 1
9 (33.3%)
Ballade 2
4 (14.8%)
Ballade 3
6 (22.2%)
Ballade 4
8 (29.6%)

Total Members Voted: 27

Topic: Your favorite Chopin ballade  (Read 6682 times)

Offline csharp_minor

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Your favorite Chopin ballade
on: January 16, 2009, 04:46:00 PM
This has probably been done before but so what, I only recently(ish) discovered them! So I'm a still obsessed about them. :o Feel free to mention your favorite / not so favorite performances of them too if you like...

Heres mine in order from my most favorite to the somewhat least favorite - but its still all very very good! ;D

Ballade 3, Op 47 - Ab major   :-*

Ballade 4, Op 52 - F minor

Ballade 1, Op 23 - G minor

Ballade 2, Op 38 - F major


Really like Zimmerman's preformance of them esp of numbers 3 and 4, I find Pollini's version a little rushed, but really like the 1st one by him...Rachmaninov's version of number 3 is intresting but not to my taste :-[, sorry Rach.

Discuss! ;)
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Offline gerryjay

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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 07:07:24 PM
i vote for the second, because is the one i am playing by now. however, my real vote would be the whole set.
best!

Offline communist

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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 09:01:50 PM
The only one i like is the second.

My least favorite is the god damn fourth, because it is vapid and soporific.
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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 03:29:11 PM
This is really a tought call!! :-[  When I discovered them it was the Ab--f minor--F major---g minor.  Performed the Ab---was working on the F major--Coda you learn FIRST!

Enjoy them! ;D

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Offline pianisten1989

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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 09:09:46 PM
The Forth is my favourite, but the other 3 is also really great.

Offline kelly_kelly

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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #5 on: January 20, 2009, 02:16:45 AM
I think it varies between 2 and 3 depending on my mood... Of course I like 1 and 4 too, but I guess I just don't relate to them as well.
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Offline csharp_minor

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Re: Your favorite Chopin ballade
Reply #6 on: January 20, 2009, 04:35:35 PM
Hmmmmm. I see No 4 seems to be the most popular!
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My least favorite is the god damn fourth,
( sorry Communist lol ;D )

... awwww No 3 seems to be the least favorite :(  ???. I don't know why, its not as fancy as the 2nd, but it more then makes up for it in passion I think 8). Its flirty.
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