Chopin: Ballade no. 3 A flat major, Op 47 (Cortot 1929)

Alfred Cortot (piano). Recorded 1929 An excerpt from Cortot’s own comments regarding this ballade: “In the last two Ballads, Chopin appears to have abandoned the principle upon which the musical construction of the preceeding Ballads is founded, namely that of dramatically opposing the themes. Indeed, the contrasting characters of their generating subjects is much less apparent in these, and their initial relationship suggests tendencies in accordance with one another, a kind of secret connection, ra