Track List: Disk 1- Chopin and the soul of the piano
- Excerpt
- Chopin the Pole
- Excerpt
- Early Education
- Excerpt
- Encounters with the Polish peasantry
- Chopin as industrious pupil
- Opening
- He finds his true voice as a composer
- Excerpt
- The fun-loving teenager
- Onset of illness and the death of a sister
- Hats off, Gentlemen! A genius!
- Excerpt
- The influence of Paganini
- Excerpt
- The first Etudes
- Success in Vienna
- Excerpt
- Chopin in love
- Excerpt
- Stagnation, celebrity and the first Concerto
- Excerpt
- Return of vitality and inspiration
- Excerpt
- Farewells and the final departure from Poland
Disk 2- Europe and Chopin in crisis
- Excerpt
- Arrival in Paris
- Paris, politics, Poles, and performance
- Chopin and the opera
- Andante spianato
- Chopin and Kalkbrenner
- The cholera epidemic; the fashionable teacher
- Teaching in ernest
- Souplesse avant tout!
Disk 3- The Wodzinska affair
- Excerpt
- An elegant, pale, sad young man
- George Sand and a Majorcan winter
- Unspecified Préludes from Op. 28
- Misanthropy, hypocrisy, and prejudice
- Unspecified Mazurkas
- At Nohant: an idyllic and creative summer
- The Idyll continues
- Funeral march and finale
Disk 4- The return to Paris
- Chopin grows moody, petulant, and volatile
- Finale
- Failing health and mounting tensions
- The break with Sand; illness; London
- Scotland, London, Paris; decline and death
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