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These are all of Arthur Rubinstein's pre-World War II Chopin EMI recordings, save for three Mazurkas recorded in 1930 that the pianist remade in 1938/39 for the complete Mazurka cycle included here. Rubinstein's earliest Chopin efforts display a sense of daring and élan that his (usually) note-perfect LP-era remakes do not consistently capture. The Scherzi and Polonaises especially bear this out, while the Mazurkas' forceful melodic projection and rhythmic joie-de-vivre radically differ from the pianist's more fastidiously considered stereo versions. The Nocturnes are mostly suave and brisk, decidedly less angular and emphatic than Rubinstein's 1949 mono LP readings.



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