Sonya Bach’s debut album for Rubicon was a well-received 2CD set of J.S Bach’s Keyboard Concerti

with the English Chamber Orchestra. For this, her second album, she turns to Chopin and his Etudes. These works so stunned the critics and public when they appeared that Theodor Kullak wrote some 50 years after their publication, “Hence when we speak of the ideal of an Etude, the name of Chopin almost involuntarily falls from our lips.” That was in the 1880s and it remains true to this day.

The two sets op.10 and op25 occupy a unique position in piano literature, sweeping aside previously popular Etudes by J.B Cramer, Hummel, Kalkbrenner and Moscheles - all great pianist composers. Chopin learned from these composers and succeeded in elevating the Etude from the practice room to the concert hall where they remain to this day.

• Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 1 in C major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 2 in A minor 'chromatique'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 6 in E flat minor 'Lacrimosa'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 7 in C major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 9 in F minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major
• Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 11 in E flat major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary'
• Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 3 in F major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 4 in A minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 6 in G sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 8 in D flat major
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 10 in B minor
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind'
• Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor
• Chopin: Trois Nouvelles Études