Chopin: Mazurkas, Op.6 – (Fialkowska)

Perhaps a bit surprisingly for those not too familiar with them, Chopin’s Mazurkas show him at the absolute height of his genius, and in all moods: baleful, anxious, sarcastic, lyrical, triumphant, forgiving, anguished, placid. They’re some of his most harmonically, rhythmically, and texturally advanced music, and have a pretty justified reputation as being very difficult to perform effectively despite the fact that on a purely technical level they’re not that challenging. Interpretively however, the Mazurk