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The poor, sad angel (re-issue)
Frédéric Chopin

The poor, sad angel (re-issue)

Nikolai Lugansky

Label: Fineline
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917241723
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Catalog number: FL 72417
Releasedate: 15-03-24
- A Chopin recital dated 1985 by the extraordinarily gifted young Nikolai Lugansky.
- To the exclusion of the Nocturne, Op. 27/2 (1835), the works on this CD were written in the years between 1841 and 1847, the ‘George Sand chapter’ in the Chopin biography.
- "There has not been a genius deeper and richer in feelings and emotions than Chopin", writes George Sand in her Histoire de ma vie.
Chopin recital by the extraordinarily gifted young Nikolaj Lugansky.
To the exclusion of the Nocturne op. 27/2, the works on this recording were written in the years between 1841 and 1847, the ‘George Sand chapter’ in the Chopin biography.

Chopin met the writer in the fall of 1836 at the Countess Marie d’Agoult’s. Smoking sigars and often dressed as a man, Sand immediately roused Chopin’s aversion: “What an antipathetic person this Sand is! I doubt if she is a woman at all.” She, on the contrary, was fascinated by “that poor, sad angel” and slowly succeeded in winning him over. The famous journey to Mallorca, where Chopin composed his Préludes, was the final step. From then on Sand and Chopin were inseparable.