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Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 on Chopin's own 1848 Pleyel piano, and Alessandro Fisher sings Britten's Winter Words.

Britten's eight settings of poems by Thomas Hardy are named after Hardy's last published collection and Britten dedicated them to John and Myfanwy Piper, the latter being the librettist of his opera, The Turn of the Screw, written at the same time. Alessandro Fisher recorded the songs recently at the 大象传媒 studios. Before them, Alexander Gadjiev evokes the world of Fr茅d茅ric Chopin's salon in a performance he gave last year in the Music Room at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. He is joined by the period instruments of the Consone Quartet as he plays the Second Concerto on Chopin's own Pleyel piano of the 1840s, the period in which Henry James set his Turn of the Screw.

Chopin arr. Kevin Kenner: Piano Concerto no 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Alexander Gadjiev (Pleyel piano of 1848)
The Consone Quartet with Jan Zahourek (double bass)

Britten: Winter Words Op. 52
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Ashok Gupta (piano)