The Chopin Project

Originally released in 2015, ‘The Chopin Project’ was a beautiful exploration of Chopin’s music brought to audiences here for the first time on colour vinyl.

The music of Frédéric Chopin has been recorded hundreds of times before. But never like this. The Chopin Project brings together award-winning young Icelandic pop/classical musician Ólafur Arnalds and the acclaimed German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott for an exciting new take on Chopin’s music. Arnalds chose a programme of Chopin works to create an emotional arc through the disc, and then composed linking sections for string quintet, piano and synthesizer based on the atmosphere and motifs of those pieces.

Tracklist:

A-Side:
Verses

Piano Sonata No.3: Largo

Nocturne In C Sharp Minor

Reminiscence

Nocturne In G Minor

B-Side:
Eyes Shut / Nocturne In C Minor

Written In Stone

Letters Of A Traveller

Prélude In D Flat Major ("Raindrop")