Chopin- Return to Warsaw

What would Frédéric Chopin's unfinished Third Piano Concerto sound like? Perhaps like pianist Martin Stadtfeld imagines it together with conductor and arranger Timo Jouko Herrmann. Originally conceived as a large-scale concerto, “Allegro de concert” Op. 46 appears on the album “Chopin: Return to Warsaw” in an orchestral version that recreates Chopin's musical language with the utmost stylistic sensitivity. As a perfect counterpart, Chopin's rarely performed “Bolero,” Op. 19, is presented in an orchestration that is as delicate as it is colorful. Together they form the reconstructed Concerto in A major, played by Martin Stadtfeld and accompanied by the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra under T. J. Herrmann. The program is complemented by well-known nocturnes, waltzes, the “Berceuse,” and Stadtfeld's own arrangements of Chopin's pieces.