Arthur Rubinstein – The Chopin Collection (RCA Victor Gold Seal – 74321 979062) made in Holland 2002 11CD-Box-set compilation | item is in unplayed, NM (mint-) condition. Booklet, covers, box-set and CD's are all NM (mint-) unplayed, as New!! | Discs 1 to 10 are stereo, Disc 11 is mono. -- Classical Romantic internet quote: Remarkably few musicians achieve iconic status, their reputation often clouded by extra-curricular considerations. Glenn Gould’s eccentricity, for example, can distort an objective assessment of his contradictory art and, regarding those of a more temporary status, Eileen Joyce’s glamour or the publicity surounding Van Cliburn’s triumph in the inaugural Tchaikovsky Piano Competition have masked assessments of their true calibre. Stephen Kovacevich feels that Dame Myra Hess acquired a comfortable Queen Mother status and regality that, while appealing to Americans in particular, compromised estimates of her stature. But with Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) there is no such sense of diversion. How vividly I recall my parents’ present of a children’s encyclopedia where I came across a picture of Rubinstein and the statement ‘When Rubinstein plays Chopin, you are carried away into another world’; heady and alluring stuff for a 10-year-old and an aspiring young pianist. Of course, there was image as well as musical reality. An engaging raconteur, Rubinstein was perhaps over-fond of regaling the press with such statements as ‘I am the happiest man I know’ or ‘I adore Spain as I adore a woman, with tenderness’. Nocturnes Op. 9 1-1 No. 1 In B-Flat Minor 5:23 1-2 No. 2 In E-Flat 4:22 1-3 No. 3 In B 6:45 Op. 15 1-4 No. 1 In F 4:16 1-5 No. 2 In F-Sharp 3:53 1-6 No. 3 In G Minor 4:59 Op. 27 1-7 No. 1 In C-Sharp Minor 5:35 1-8 No. 2 In D-Flat 6:10 Op. 32 1-9 No. 1 In B 4:37 1-10 No. 2 In A-Flat 5:44 Op. 37 2-1 No. 1 In G-Minor 6:16 2-2 No. 2 In G 6:52 Op. 48 2-3 No. 1 In C Minor 5:50 2-4 No. 2 In F-Sharp Minor 7:16 Op. 55 2-5 No. 1 In F Minor 5:37 2-6 No. 2 In E-Flat 5:44 Op. 62 2-7 No. 1 In B 6:47 2-8 No. 2 In E 5:16 Op. 72 2-9 No. 1 In E Minor 4:40 Mazurkas Op. 6 3-1 No. 1 In F-Sharp Minor 2:36 3-2 No. 2 In C-Sharp Minor 2:42 3-3 No. 3 In E 2:03 3-4 No. 4 In E-Flat Minor 0:41 Op.7 3-5 No. 1 In B-Flat 2:35 3-6 No. 2 In A Minor 3:29 3-7 No. 3 In F Minor 2:51 3-8 No. 4 In A-Flat 1:05 3-9 No. 5 In C 0:35 Op. 17 3-10 No. 1 In B-Flat 2:29 3-11 No. 2 In E Minor 1:57 3-12 No. 3 In A-Flat 4:20 3-13 No. 4 In A Minor 4:31 Op. 24 3-14 No. In G Minor 2:49 3-15 No. 2 In C 2:13 3-16 No. 3 In A-Flat 2:07 3-17 No. 4 In B-Flat 5:03 Op. 30 3-18 No. 1 In C Minor 1:36 3-19 No. 2 In B Minor 1:27 3-20 No. 3 In D-Flat 2:51 3-21 No. 4 In C-Sharp Minor 3:41 Op. 33 3-22 No. 1 In G-Sharp Minor 1:36 3-23 No. 2 In D 2:45 3-24 No. 3 In C 1:34 3-25 No. 4 In B Minor 5:32 Op. 41 3-26 No. 1 In C-Sharp Minor 3:28 4-1 No. 2 In E Minor 2:11 4-2 No 3. In B 1:09 4-3 No. 4 In A-Flat 2:10 Op. 50 4-4 No. 1 In G 2:30 4-5 No. 2 In A-Flat 3:07 4-6 No. 3 In C-Sharp Minor 5:20 Op. 56 4-7 No. 1 In B 4:21 4-8 No. 2 In C 1:46 4-9 No. 3 In C Minor 5:46 Op. 59 4-10 No. 1 In A Minor 3:50 4-11 No. 2 In A-Flat 2:36 4-12 No. 3. In F-Sharp Minor 3:29 Op. 63 4-13 No. 1 In B 2:16 4-14 No. 2 In F Minor 1:54 4-15 No. 3 In C-Sharp Minor 2:18 Opus Posthumous 4-16 In A Minor À Emile Gaillard 2:31 4-17 In A Minor Notre Temps 3:15 Op. 67 4-18 No. 1 In G 1:09 4-19 No. 2 In G Minor 1:58 4-20 No. 3 In C 1:36 4-21 No. 4 In A Minor 3:03 Op. 68 4-22 No. 1 In C 1:39 4-23 No. 2 In A Minor 2:45 4-24 No. 3 In F 1:26 4-25 No. 4 In F Minor 3:13 Ballades 5-1 No. 1, Op. 23 In G Minor 9:17 5-2 No. 2, Op. 38 In F 6:38 5-3 No. 3, Op. 47 In A-Flat 7:15 5-4 No. 4, Op. 52 In F Minor 10:41 Scherzos 5-5 No. 1, Op. 20 In B Minor 9:02 5-6 No. 2, Op. 31 In B-Flat Minor 9:42 5-7 No. 3, Op. 39 In C-Sharp Minor 7:12 5-8 No. 4, Op. 54 In E 10:55 Polonaises Op. 26 6-1 No. 1 In C-Sharp Minor 7:39 6-2 No. 2 In E-Flat Minor 7:09 Op. 40 6-3 No. 1 In A "Military" 4:05 6-4 No. 2 In C Minor 8:35 6-5 Op. 44 In F-Sharp Minor 11:07 6-6 Op. 53 In A-Flat "Heroic" 7:05 6-7 Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 In A-Flat 12:56 Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 In B-Flat Minor "Funeral March" 7-1 Grave; Doppio Movimento 5:36 7-2 Scherzo 6:35 7-3 Marche Funèbre: Lento 8:56 7-4 Finale: Presto 1:22 Sonata No. 3, Op. 58 In B Minor 7-5 Allegro Maestoso 8:56 7-6 Scherzo: Molto Vivace 2:32 7-7 Largo 9:04 7-8 Finale: Presto, Non Tanto 5:02 7-9 Fantaisie, Op. 49 In F Minor 11:59 Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 In E Minor 8-1 Allegro Maestoso 19:36 8-2 Romance: Larghetto 10:42 8-3 Rondo: Vivace 10:01 Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 In F Minor 8-4 Maestoso 13:15 8-5 Larghetto 8:34 8-6 Allegro Vivace 8:03 Waltzes 9-1 Op. 18, In E-Flat "Grande Valse Brillante" 5:25 Op. 34 9-2 No. 1 In A-Flat "Valse Brillante" 5:02 9-3 No. 2 In A Minor "Valse Brillante" 5:08 9-4 No. 3 In F "Valse Brillante" 2:20 9-5 Op. 42 In A-Flat "Two-Four" 3:45 Op. 64 9-6 No. 1, "Minute", In D-Flat 1:48 9-7 No. 2 In C-Sharp Minor 3:39 9-8 No. 3 In A-Flat 3:19 Op. 69 9-9 No. 1 In A-Flat "L'Adieu" 3:26 9-10 No. 2 In B Minor 3:49 Op. 70 9-11 No. 1 In G-Flat 1:49 9-12 No. 2 In F Minor 3:26 9-13 No. 3 In D-Flat 2:47 9-14 Opus Posth. In E Minor 3:04 Impromptus 10-1 No. 1, Op. 29 In A-Flat 4:12 10-2 No. 2, Op. 36 In F-Sharp 5:59 10-3 No. 3, Op. 51 In G-Flat 4:48 10-4 No. 4, Op. 66 In C-Sharp Minor "Fantaisie-Impromptu" 5:12 10-5 Barcarolle, Op. 60 9:26 Trois Nouvelles Études, Opus Posth. (5:42) 10-6.1 No. 1 In F Minor 10-6.2 No. 2 In A-Flat 10-6.3 No. 3 In D-Flat 10-7 Bolero, Op. 19 8:21 10-8 Berceuse, Op. 57 4:35 10-9 Tarantelle, Op. 43 3:14 10-10 Andante Spianato And Grand Polonaise, Op. 22 In E-Flat 14:55 Preludes, Op. 28 11-1 No. 1 In C 0:44 11-2 No. 2 In A Minor 1:53 11-3 No. 3 In G 0:49 11-4 No. 4 In E Minor 1:46 11-5 No. 5 In D 0:28 11-6 No. 6 In B Minor 1:48 11-7 No. 7 In A 0:51 11-8 No. 8 In F-Sharp Minor 1:42 11-9 No. 9 In E 1:16 11-10 No. 10 In C-Sharp Minor 0:30 11-11 No. 11 In B-Major 0:34 11-12 No. 12 In G-Sharp Minor 0:59 11-13 No. 13 In F-Sharp 3:33 11-14 No. 14 In E-Flat Minor 0:25 11-15 No. 15 In D-Flat "Raindrop" 4:28 11-16 No. 16 In B-Flat Minor 0:58 11-17 No. 17 In A-Flat 3:37 11-18 No. 18 In F Minor 0:41 11-19 No. 19 In E-Flat 1:18 11-20 No. 20 In C Minor 1:32 11-21 No. 21 In B-Flat 1:49 11-22 No. 22 In G Minor 0:40 11-23 No. 23 In F 1:06 11-24 No. 24 In D Minor 2:11 Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 In B-Flat Minor, "Funeral March" 11-25 Grave; Doppio Movimento 4:57 11-26 Scherzo 5:42 11-27 Marche Funèbre: Lento 8:40 11-28 Finale: Presto 1:19 11-29 Berceuse, Op. 57 4:16 11-30 Barcarolle, Op. 60 9:05