Ballades & Fantasies

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballads and fantasies
Anne Kauppi piano
Anne Kaup's Chopin series continues
Frédéric Chopin Ballades & Fantasies, published in honor of Chopin's anniversary, contains all of Chopin's ballads and fantasies composed for the piano as brilliant interpretations by Anne Kaup. The novelty disc features Polonaise Fantasy in A flat major op. 61 (1846), Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1831-1833), Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 (1836), Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 (1841), Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (1843), Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49 (1841).
Anne Kauppi graduated from the Sibelius Academy, completing the third piano course with maximum points. He played his first concert in 1980. Kauppi studied at Juilliard, New York from 1980-1985, completing the so-called The teachers of the post-graduate diploma are professors Ania Dorfman and Adele Marcus. Anne Kauppi has performed as a soloist in several Finnish orchestras and she has given concerts not only in Finland, but also in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. In 1999, Alba published Chopin's Preludes and Scherzos, played by him, and in 2008 all of Chopin's Etudes.