Chopin - Rubinstein - Waltzes - No. 2 - No. 4 - No. 10 - No. 13 - Classical 7" EP
7"

Rubinstein - Chopin Waltzes

RCA
7" EP
German Issue
ERB 1892
Record is VG++
Cover is VG+ VG++

Side A

No. 2 In A Flat, Op. 34, No. 1


No. 4 In F, Op. 34, No. 3



Side B

No. 10 In B Minor, Posthumous, Op. 69, No.2

No. 13 In D Flat, Posthumous, Op. 70, No.




Rubinstein and Chopin go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Rubinstein knows all the right moments to bring out the best in Chopin's piano music.

Artur Rubinstein's performance of the fourteen waltzes ( 4 of them here) seems to be among the definitive versions..

The four recordings are milestones of the classical waltzes. Their interpretations have achieved expert fluidity with grace and elegance of nobility. As Robert Schumann remarked "should be danced at least by countesses."

The famous Polish poet Kazimierz Wierzynski author of the "Life and Death of Chopin" (1949) makes the following observation. "Chopin's Waltzes have little or nothing in common with the atmosphere of the ballroom. Niecks calls them Tanzdichtungen (dance poems). How does Rubinstein play the Chopin Waltzes?

Surely, their worldliness and elegance are particularly suited to this worldly and elegant pianist whose incomparable virtuosity goes hand in hand with his unique feeling for Chopin.

Without in the least sentimentalizing Chopin, Rubinstein fully renders his warmth: he is the ideal interpreter of the waltzes in which tenderness is so subtly blended with sparkle, playfulness and deep emotion."