Piano: Leonard Pennario
*The Fourteen Complete Waltzes*:
Waltz No.1 in E-flat major (Grande Valse Brillante) Op.18, No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusVQYcGVwM
Waltz No.2 in in A-flat major (Valse Brilliante) Op.34, No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsUDgYeoog
Waltz No.3 in A minor (Valse Triste) Op.34. No.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjU4NGP2tnc
Waltz No.4 in F major, Op.34, No.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhM9UxfqGRc
Waltz No.5 in A-flat major (The 2/4 waltz) Op.42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmX1LJx3wg0
Waltz No.6 in D-flat major (Minute Waltz) Op.64, No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6dMQmbUqI8
Waltz No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.64, No.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvB5vvcR2Bw
Waltz No.8 in A-flat major, Op.64, No.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKuwnn0RSLo
Waltz No.9 in A-flat major (L'Adieu)(Posthumous) Op.69, No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KP_cb4OIA
Waltz No.10 in B minor (Posthumous), Op.69, No.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfg8AdJ2Go
Waltz No.11 in G-flat major (Posthumous), Op.70, No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_G8NT4g-o
Waltz No.12 in F minor (Posthumous) Op.70, No.2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Aw2-xqbXc
Waltz No.13 in D-flat major (Posthumous) Op.70, No.3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fx6Cce5Cqc
Waltz No.14 in E minor, Op. Posthumous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQ5lVRb47M
*PLAYLIST / Fourteen Waltzes*
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DFB3A85C4F574773
Enjoy the playing of this unique, miraculous American talent!
Photographs in this video are courtesy of Mary Kunz Goldman, who is the music critic of The Buffalo News and the authorized biographer of Leonard Pennario. Mary blogs daily about the adventure of chronicling a great pianist's life on her Web site, http://www.marykunzgoldman.com
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This is my favourite piece. You can feel Chopin's longing melancholy for Poland, really.
TheTyrfish 5 months ago
Great.
TheCinemaization 1 year ago
Pennario plays this mournful piece (more like a nocturne) the way I believe Chopin intended. Similiar to the live rendition I once heard from the great V. Horowitz many years ago.
MrFranknichols 2 years ago
very refreshing, i like this piece my mom plays well all chopin pieces, sad to say shes gone now but i will continue play her pieces such as like this.
gatjenny2000 2 years ago
ive been studying chopin..stlil cant get over how beautiful and complex his pieces are. thanks for posting.
holypicklesauce 2 years ago
es udzlieresi valsia!!! very deep and sweet!
baxurauli88 2 years ago
beautiful, thank you for sharing
jng41687 2 years ago