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This album is a virtual journey into Chopin's musical world. On February 21, 1842, the Polish composer gave one of his very rare concerts. He did not enjoy appearing in public, for his music was above all an intimate art. On Chopin chez Pleyel, Alain Planes has recreated the program of this concert as closely as possible and recorded it on a Pleyal piano of 1836 that the composer might very well have played. The questions he throws up in the process are fascinating. How did Chopin play? Apart from his famous rubato, what was the role of ornamentation and indeed improvisation? this fascinating album offers very plausible and musically satifsying answers to some of those questions.