Hardly unexpectedly for a genre created by Franz Schubert, Chopin’s four Impromptus have a strongly improvisatory character, while still overflowing with fleet-footed lightness, as well as with dignity and tastefulness. This applies above all to the first three pieces of this volume, opp. 29, 36 and 51. Whereas the first was written in 1837, the other two were composed during Chopin’s relationship with the authoress George Sand, at her country seat of Nohant: op. 36 in 1839, op. 51 three years l...

• Impromptu A flat major op. 29
• Impromptu F sharp major op. 36
• Impromptu G flat major op. 51
• Fantaisie-Impromptu C sharp minor op. post. 66 (in two versions)