Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod details how Chopin famously took as a lover the writer George Sand; she became the most important among the various women who played a significant role in his life. Polonaise brillante in C, Op 3 Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano) Etudes, Op 10 (excerpts) Maurizio Pollini (piano) Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49 Solomon (piano).