The “New Approach to Chopin's Piano Music” is a Rich Media DVD. I DVD:Ballade in F minor Op 52; Nocturnes Op 48 n 1 and 9 n 1; Etudes Op 10 (Davide Polovineo, piano): An exact Description of the Sources and a complete Conspectus of the Different Variants would extend far beyond the scope of this presentation. However, there does exist an exceptional Document: the edition published in London (1932) by Edouard Ganche for Oxford University Press. Although all of his twenty-seven Etudes for piano adhere to the Bach’s basic principle of Preludes - to train and refine a specific aspect of a performer’s technique - there is another element present. The Chopin’s Studies Op 10 adopt a simple A-B-A form. The Editorial Principles for the Ballade Op. 52 which have been applied derive from the Method followed for the Studies, according to which, when Several Sources were available, a Uniform “source-layer”, (as one may call it), was, as far as possible, taken as a basis. It is known that the Ballads were inspired by four poems by Adam Mickiewicz, the Great Polish poet. The fourth Ballade (F minor, Op. 52, 1843) is considered the greatest of the four and generally the Epitome of Romantic music. It was composed around 1842-43 and dedicated to Madame la Baronesse C. Nathaniel de Rothschild. Madame Rothschild invited Chopin to play in her Parisian Estate to introduce him to the Aristocracy and Nobility. The Ballade was said to be inspired by Mickiewicz's "Budri", a Story of a Father sending his sons to fight the Enemy but ending up with three wedding Feasts. The Nocturne is generally accredited to John Field, an Irish Composer and Pianist, who published his first three Nocturnes in 1814. The Majority of Chopin’s Nocturnes adopt a simple A-B-A form. The first of Chopin’s works to be published in France, Germany and England were these Nocturnes (Op. 9), which appeared over the period of December 1832 to June 1833. They were composed, in part, in Vienna and completed in Paris. This first Work immediately confirm the character of the Nocturne. For the Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (Lento), Robert Schumann reviewed both Nocturnes of opus 48, but his admiration was tinged with certain Reservations. This piece was composed in October 1841 and published in 1841-42; it is dedicated to Laura Duperre. The Chopin’s Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness”.The Elements of Multiplicity and Plurality in Chopin’s art are an interactive Process between Reader and Text.
