Anyone who collects historical keyboards like Pokémon plays Chopin on a Pleyel from 1835
Justin Taylor has a weakness for historical keyboards. And who are we to want to curb that urge? Taylor always couples repertoire to the right instrument. Voor Chopin his eye fell on an early 19th-century Pleyel: the same type of piano on which Frédéric composed his preludes during a romantic retreat with George Sand on Mallorca. In terms of hardware and skills, we are set for this anthology of preludes, etudes, nocturnes, and mazurkas by the most pianistic of all piano composers.