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The current recording is a double portrait: the portrait of pianist Ralf Taal portraying Fryderyk Chopin - trying to display the model from as many angles as possible. The first touches to the portrait-CD are given by a colorful Prelude bouquet followed by the narrative, elegiac fourth Ballade and three etudes, op 10 - where Chopin unites brilliant technique with poetic-romantic figures. The splendid Polonaise, op 53 offers homage to Poland, the composer's homeland. And finally, one final brush stroke on the canvas, the restless, sarcastic and lyrically speckled second Scherzo.