Chopin: Ballade №4, Op. 52 [Horowitz 1981]

November 1, 1981: The Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, New York (Live) All Horowitz Chopin Ballades: Horowitz plays Chopin: Legendary Horowitz: Frédéric Chopin’s four ballades are single-movement pieces for solo piano. They are considered to be some of the most challenging pieces in the standard piano repertoire. There are dramatic and dance-like elements in Chopin’s ballades, and he may be said to be a pioneer of the ballade as an abstract musical form. Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 was composed in 1842 in Paris and Nohant. In the preface to his edition of Chopin’s ballades, Alfred Cortot claims that the inspiration for this Ballade is Adam Mickiewicz’s poem The Three Budrys. A phrase in the dominant major (marked ’piano