With 'Chopin: Return to Warsaw' Martin Stadtfeld explores Frédéric Chopin's music as an expression of longing, memory, and return. At the centre of the album stands the imagined 'Third Piano Concerto', reconstructed from the 'Allegro de Concerto' and the 'Bolero, Op. 19', works Chopin once intended to perform upon his return to a free Warsaw - a return that never happened. Together with an idiomatic orchestration by Timo Jouko Herrmann, Stadtfeld brings this unrealised vision to life. The recording reveals Chopin as a composer caught between exile and hope, whose music carries the idea of home even in absence. Around this concert, Martin Stadtfeld composes meditations on Chopin's most popular works. New variations that take a fresh and unique look at the famous composer's oeuvre.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Nocturne Meditation (After Nocturnes, Op. 37, No. 2: Andantino)

Martin Stadtfeld

2.Funeral March Meditation (After Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35: III. Marche Funèbre)

Martin Stadtfeld

3.I. Allegro De Concert, Op. 46

Martin Stadtfeld/Heidelberger Sinfoniker

4.II. Improvisation (After Boléro, Op. 19)

Martin Stadtfeld

5.III. Meditation (After Boléro, Op. 19)

Martin Stadtfeld

6.IV. Boléro, Op. 19

Martin Stadtfeld/Heidelberger Sinfoniker

7.Polonaise in G Minor, B1

Martin Stadtfeld

8.Largo in E-flat Major, B109

Martin Stadtfeld

9.No. 2 in E-flat Major

Martin Stadtfeld

10.Violoncello Meditation (After Cello Sonata, Op. 65: III. Largo)

Martin Stadtfeld

11.Spring Meditation (After Polish Songs, Op. 74, No. 2: Wiosna)

Martin Stadtfeld

12.Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1

Martin Stadtfeld

13.Berceuse, Op. 57 (Short Edit)

Martin Stadtfeld

14.No. 3. Allegretto

Andrea Cicalese/Martin Stadtfeld

15.No. 2. Vivace

Andrea Cicalese/Martin Stadtfeld

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