Chopin Frederic - Polonaise in F sharp Minor Op 44 Piano Solo *Nuvo Fascinating Rhythm (Lady be Good

Fascinating Rhythm (Lady be Good - Gershwin) and Memories (Cats - Lloyd Webber)

and joyous virtuoso finale

He lists the more minor source variants in footnotes

and even a few English traditional tunes thrown in for good measure

With introductory text and perform ance notes

Chopin Frederic - Polonaise in F sharp Minor Op 44 Piano Solo *Nuvo Fascinating Rhythm (Lady be GoodOn 23 August 1841 Chopin wrote to the Viennese publisher Mechetti: I currently have a manuscript available for you. It is a kind of fantasia in the form of a polonaise that I would call Polonaise. Chopins uncertainty about the title is only too understandable. The work begins as a proud polonaise. Then a passage bursts in during which an octave a is relentlessly played more than thirty times. This almost modern sounding passage leads into a mazurka