Julien Brocal

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Quatre Ballades Avec with his four Ballades, Chopin creates one of the most singular forms of pianistic romanticism. Composed between 1831 and 1842, these works blend musical narration, dramatic contrasts, and lyricism in a writing of great formal freedom. By turns meditative, heroic, or passionate, they deploy all the expressive richness of the piano. Julien Boréal offers here a reading that highlights the poetic and narrative dimension of these major pages of the repertoire.