Written at a time when the composer was completely deaf and suffering from a combination of illnesses that would eventually kill him some two years later, at the age of 56, this was a revolutionary work in its day, and therefore underappreciated, because it was so different from what audiences were used to in the first half of the 19t Century. Mourning is allowed? Adagio Nobody inhabits the Polonaises like Czerny-Stefanska. Martin in the Fields I have these recordings in my library of classical Music.
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