Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already composed over 20 nocturnes, which presumably greatly influenced Chopin. The latter continued to develop the light, song-like piano writing and created works whose dreamy, longing atmosphere came to embody Chopin's music. Our volume contains the works that were published during Chopin's lifetime as well as ones which were only published posthumously, including the famous Lento con gran espressione in C sharp minor - in two authentic versions.
Chopin: Nocturne g minor op. 37,1 Chopin: Nocturne c sharp minor op. 27,1 Chopin: Nocturne B major op. 32,1 Chopin: Nocturne g minor op. 15,3 Chopin: Nocturne E major op. 62,2 Chopin: Nocturne c minor KK IVb,8 Chopin: Nocturne (version 2) c sharp minor KK IVa,16 Chopin: Nocturne e minor op. post. 72,1 Chopin: Nocturne B major op. 62,1 Chopin: Nocturne E flat major op. 55,2 Chopin: Nocturne f minor op. 55,1 Chopin: Nocturne f sharp minor op. 48,2 Chopin: Nocturne E flat major op. 9,2 Chopin: Nocturne (version 1) c sharp minor KK IVa,16 Chopin: Nocturne b flat minor op. 9,1 Chopin: Nocturne c minor op. 48,1 Chopin: Nocturne F major op. 15,1 Chopin: Nocturne F sharp major op. 15,2 Chopin: Nocturne D flat major op. 27,2 Chopin: Nocturne A flat major op. 32,2 Chopin: Nocturne G major op. 37,2 Chopin: Nocturne B major op. 9,3