Your favorite Chopin ballade

[csharp_minor]

This has probably been done before but so what, I only recently(ish) discovered them! So I'm a still obsessed about them. 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!

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!

[gerryjay]

i vote for the second, because is the one i am playing by now. however, my real vote would be the whole set.
best!

[communist]

The only one i like is the second.

My least favorite is the god damn fourth, because it is vapid and soporific.

[kitty on the keys]

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!

Kitty on the Keys

[pianisten1989]

The Forth is my favourite, but the other 3 is also really great.

[kelly_kelly]

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.

[csharp_minor]

Hmmmmm. I see No 4 seems to be the most popular!

My least favorite is the god damn fourth,

( sorry Communist lol )

... 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 . Its flirty.