Chopin: Polonaises
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COMPOSERS: Chopin
LABELS: Naxos
WORKS: Polonaises
PERFORMER: Arthur Rubinstein (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: 8.111346
Rubinstein’s greatness is evident throughout this second of his three recorded cycles of the polonaises, but the strangely tinny recorded sound bears little or no resemblance to his own. The first and third cycles are distinctly preferable. Jeremy Siepmann