Chopin/ Farkas - Ballades & Impromptus Release:Ballades & Impromptus Hungaroton Happiness is often nothing more

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Chopin/ Farkas - Ballades & Impromptus Release:Ballades & Impromptus Hungaroton Happiness is often nothing moreThe piano ballade is Chopin's invention, and, at the same time, the most individual and poetic genre of romantic piano literature, the purest manifestation of the romantic aesthetic. The four Ballades, conceived at the peak of his compositional career, are telling their tales in quite unique formal designs, all different from one another. Chopin's free improvisations, (improvisations: "impromptu") were seemingly "piano pieces" without genre;