Chopin Bel Canto

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When Chopin was a young man, bel canto opera was the most popular music in the world, and it was the music he loved best: "His playing," reported one pupil, "is based entirely on the singing of Pasta, Malibran and Rubini - he says so himself!" The last half-century has seen that music return to the mainstream after generations of neglect. Bel Canto at Caramoor celebrates the great composer's 200th birthday with a program combining the music Chopin knew with the compositions in which he transformed and idealized it into his own unique language. The virtuoso Russian poet of the piano, Vassily Primakov, performs a selection of Chopin's Nocturnes, Mazurkas, a Ballade and a Waltz--works that solidified the composer's reputation as an absolute master of the piano.