Audio Books : General : MP3/192Kbps : English


Unabridged and read by Jeremy Siepmann.
5 hours duration. 4 CD's.
(Fraunhofer CBR 192 kbit/s 44khz JS, jetAudio 6.2+).


Frédéric Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmerizing performers of his day, he lives on in his waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much much more.

Here, his life, from his birth in Poland, his famous affair with the French writer George Sand, to his death at the age of 39 in Paris, is told with his music featuring prominently.

We think of Chopin as a 'frail, sheltered genius' but this forthright portrait demonstrates he was far more boisterous than that. Cheerful as a youth, it was only later that the glare of publicity, the change from local to national celebrity, made Chopin guard his privacy more carefully. This is clearly presented in Jeremy Siepmann's sympathetic account of the life of one of the key figures in Romantic music, and emphasized in the very personal portrayal by the English classical actor Anton Lesser.

I have set the bitrate higher than I normally do just for speech due to the extensive musical examples presented here.



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