Rare Chopin - 8 pieces that are rarely preformed, (part 2)

The second video about Chopin's rare/obscure works. It's features his larger works. The next one with be about his pluri-instrumental works.

Part 1 (12 little pieces you may not know) :    • Rare Chopin - 12 little pieces you ma...  

0:00 - Introduction
0:12 - *Allegro de concert, Op. 46
11:48 - *Bolero, Op. 19
19:00 - Casta Diva (**)
22:37 - *Hexaméron: Variation No.6
24:53 - Marche funèbre, Op.72 No.2
30:45 - *Tarantella, Op. 43
33:50 - Variations sur un air national Allemande
41:26 - Variations sur un air national de Moore (piano 4 hands)

*my favorites

**The Casta diva transcription is perhaps spurious. It was "reconstructed" by musicologist Wojciech Nowik in 1976, but it is unknown how much of the transcription is original as the manuscript is supposedly now kept in the private collection. I apologize for including it in this list.


Allegro de concert, Op. 46

It was originally intended to be the first movement of a third piano concerto. It was never orchestrated and was left in its solo form for publication.

"Chopin himself highly valued this work, since when he played it in manuscript for A. Hofman and asked him for his opinion and it naturally was most favorable. He answered in these words: Well this is precisely the first work I will perform in my first concert in Warsaw after my return to Poland."
- Marceli Antoni Szulc, Fryderyk Chopin i jego utwory muzyczne, Poznan 1873

Tarantella, Op. 43

"I'm sending you the Tarantella. Kindly copy it but first go to Schlesinger or to Troupenas and look at the Receuil of Rossini's songs published better by him, where the Tarantella is in A flat, I don't know whether it is written in 6/8 or 12/8. They write it one way and the other, but I would prefer that it
be like Rossini's. Also I ask you please instead of using repeat signs, please write out everything. And if you find the time incorrect in my manuscript, then don't give it, just copy it, and in addition copy it a third time for Wessel. I know this awful copying bores you, but I hope I won't write anything worse very soon. Also please look at the number of the last work, it is the number of the last
mazurkas, or of the waltz, which Paccini published, and thus give the Tarantella the next number." - From a letter from Chopin to Fontana in Paris, Nohant 27 Jul 1841