Chopin:
Impromptu No. 1 in As Major
Mazurka Op. 17, No. 4 in A Minor
Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major, Op. 47
Nocturne in C sharp Minor, Op. posthum
Etude Op. 25, No. 2 in F Minor ‘The Bees’
Etude Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor ‘Revolutionary’
Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 in D flat Major ‘Raindrop’
Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66 in C sharp Minor
Marche Funebre in B flat Minor, from Sonata Op. 35
Waltz Op. 69, No. 2 in B Minor
Waltz Op. 64, No.1 in D flat Major, ‘Minute Waltz’

To me, this album is both a personal story and a musical narrative about one of the (piano) composers I find the most fascinating: Frédéric Chopin. I chose a dozen works; twelve of his jewels that represent different stages of his life and that each hold a particular significance for me. I open up this album with the First Impromptu, the first of Chopin's works I was to learn as a young teenager. The album closes with the first piece by Chopin that I heard as a toddler: my mother often played the Waltz, opus 64 no. 1, at home on our dark brown Rippen piano. My mother, who was always so closely involved and supportive from the first time I reached up to the piano as a young girl until my last concert before her untimely death last April.