Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor "Reminiscence", op. posth. 1 no. 16, B. 49, KKIVa/16

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The Nocturne No. 20 in C♯ minor, Op. posth., Lento con gran espressione, P 1, No. 16, KKIVa/16, WN 37, is a solo piano piece composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830 and published in 1875.

Chopin dedicated this work to his older sister Ludwika Chopin, with the statement: "To my sister Ludwika as an exercise before beginning the study of my second Concerto". First published 21 years after the composer's death, the piece is usually referred to as Lento con gran espressione, from its tempo marking. It is sometimes also called Reminiscence. The piece was played by Holocaust survivor Natalia Karp for the Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, with Goeth being so impressed with the rendition that he spared Karp's life.

This was also the piece played by Holocaust survivor and famed Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman (the central figure of the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist) during the last live broadcast of Polish radio on September 23, 1939 when Warsaw was besieged by the German army. Years later Szpilman also played this piece for German army officer Wilm Hosenfeld upon their first meeting, though in the corresponding film scene Szpilman plays an abridged version of Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. Hosenfeld later helped Szpilman hide and provided food to him in the last months of the war.

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composer:Fryderyk Chopin (composer) (in 1830)
download score for free:imslp: Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B.49 (Chopin, Frédéric) [info]
Allmusic:https://www.allmusic.com/composition/mc0002600351 [info]
Wikidata:Q7046547 [info]
work list entry:https://www.pianolibrary.org/composers/chopin/lento-con-gran-espressione-kk-iva16/ [info]
later versions:ノクターン
is the basis for:Reminiscence
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arrangements:Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor (catch-all for arrangements)
Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth. (for violin and piano, arr. Milstein)
Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth. 1 no. 16, BI 49 "Reminiscence" (for cello and piano, Piatigorsky)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
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1927Nocturne in C-sharp minor, no. 20 op. posth.Лев Николаевич Оборин3:44
1946-10-07Nocturne in C-sharp minorliveJosef Blatt, Nathan Milstein3:53
1961 – 1963Nocturne no. 20 in C‐sharp minor (1830)Adam Harasiewicz3:46
1965-05Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp, op. post: Lento con gran espressioneTamás Vásáry3:46
1967-10 – 1968-03Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Alexis Weissenberg4:10
1974-09Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posthNikita Magaloff4:53
1975Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth. 72/2Nelson Freire3:51
1977-12 – 1979-02Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Garrick Ohlsson3:47
1978-03Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Claudio Arrau4:30
1981-01 – 1981-05Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, B. 49: Lento con Gran EspressioneDaniel Barenboim4:36
1986Noktúrna í cís-moll, op. posth.Halldór Haraldsson4:02
1987-07-26Nocturne in C-sharp minorMartino Tirimo3:43
1988-09-01 – 1988-09-04Nocturne in C-sharp minorLívia Rév3:42
1991-07 – 1991-09Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B.I. 49İdil Biret3:59
1994-06-13 – 1994-10-05Nocturne in C-sharp minor, KKIVa/16 "Lento con espressione"Garrick Ohlsson4:46
1995-02-21 – 1995-02-23Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.John O’Conor4:12
1996-01Nocturne in C-sharp minorWibi Soerjadi4:54
1996-02-29 – 1996-03-13Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.: Lento con gran espressioneRichard Meyrick4:45
1996-03-03 – 1996-03-07Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49Earl Wild3:53
1996-06Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. post: Lento con gran espressioneMaria João Pires4:02
1997-11Nocturne en ut dièse mineur, KK IVa/16 (version autographe)Abdel Rahman El Bacha4:00
1998-09-01 – 1998-09-02Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Bart van Oort3:54
1998-09-08 – 1998-09-09Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. Posth.Yoram Ish-Hurwitz4:03
1999-02-21 – 1999-02-24Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth.Jean‐Yves Thibaudet3:46
1999-06Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, B. 49Vladimir Ashkenazy4:05
2000-03Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth. "Lento con gran espressione"Alain Planès4:38
2002-12Nocturne no. 20Aldo Ciccolini4:13
2004-06Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.liveMikhail Pletnev5:06
2006-01Lento con gran espressione [Nocturne], op. post: C-sharp minorRoger Woodward4:13
2006-03-27 – 2006-03-29Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. post.David Fung4:07
2006-07 – 2006-08Nocturna í cís-moll, op. PosthJónas Ingimundarson4:30
2007-07-04 – 2007-07-05Nocturne no. 20La Pietà, Angèle Dubeau3:47
2008-08Nocturne op. posth. Browne 49, do dièse mineurArthur Schoonderwoerd4:34
2008-12-01 – 2008-12-03Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. post.Hisako Kawamura4:47
2008Nocturne in C# minor, Op. PosthumousJanet Murray4:34
2009-05-06 – 2009-05-10Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posthumeAlexandre Tharaud4:06
2009-09-21 – 2009-10-02Nocturne, Op. 20 en ut Dièse mineurFrançois Chaplin4:09
2009-12Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, KK IVa/16: Lento con gran espressioneNelson Freire3:35
2011-03-15 – 2011-03-16Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. Posth. KK IVa/16: Lento con gran espressioneEwa Kupiec5:01
2011-04-23 – 2011-04-26Nocturne in C-sharp minorBenjamin Grosvenor3:46
2011-05-07 – 2011-05-09Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Yuan Sheng3:41
2011-10-11 – 2011-10-13Nocturnes: No. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Masako Ezaki4:07
2012-02 – 2012-03Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Menahem Pressler4:37
2012-06-07 – 2012-06-11Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Lang Lang4:42
2013-07Nocturne in c-sharp minor op. posth.Myung Whun Chung3:58
2013-09-14 – 2013-09-16Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth. “Lento con gran espressione”Miyuji Kaneko4:24
2013-09-14 – 2013-09-16Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth. “Lento con gran espressione”Miyuji Kaneko4:24
2014-01-10Nocturne in C‐sharp minor, op. posth.Lars Vogt4:00
2014-10-08 – 2014-10-09Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. post.Louis Lortie4:10
2015-06-02 – 2015-06-06Nocturne en do ♯ mineur, op. posth.: Con grande espressioneEmmanuelle Swiercz4:13
2016-05-15 – 2016-05-20Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor op. posthMenahem Pressler4:41
2016-06Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth.: Lento con gran espressioneJan Lisiecki4:32
2017-02-15 – 2017-02-17Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth. 1 no. 16, BI 49 "Reminiscence"François Dumont4:02
2017-02-27 – 2017-02-28Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth., B. 49Eliane Rodrigues4:52
2017-08Nocturne, op. posth. en Do dièse mineurMara Dobresco4:43
2017-11-23 – 2017-12-03Lento con gran espressione in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Ingrid Fliter4:02
2019-11Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Alain Planès4:20
2020-02Nocturne in C-sharp minor, WN 37Magdalena Prejsnar3:48
2020-07-15 – 2020-07-18Nocturne no. 20 en Do dièse mineur, op. posth.Paul Ji4:50
2020-07-18 – 2020-07-23Lento con gran espressione in C-sharp minor, “Nocturne”, KKIVa/16Stephen Hough3:42
2020-08Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49Andrea Trovato5:33
2021-06-14 – 2021-06-17Nocturne no. 20 in C-sharp minor, op. posth.Sophie Pacini3:58
2022Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49 (version for Brüel & Kjær 4006 microphone)Natalia Sokolovskaya3:49
2022Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49 (version for Brüel & Kjær 4004 microphone)Natalia Sokolovskaya3:49
2 Nocturnes, Part 2Mikhail Pletnev4:16
Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C‐Sharp Minor, Op. Posth.François‐René Duchâble4:12
Cis-Moll Lento Con Gran EspressioneFrédéric Chopin?:??
Lento con gran espressionePierre Goy3:22
Lento con gran espressioneJackson Berkey4:07
Lento con gran espressione (Nocturne no. 20), in C-sharp minor, P 1, no. 16, KKIVa/16Alessandro Deljavan4:33
Nocturne #20 In C Sharp Minor, Bi 49 - Various ArtistsDaniel Barenboim3:27
Nocturne #20 In C Sharp Minor, Bi 49 - Various ArtistsDaniel Barenboim4:38
Nocturne B. 49 in C-sharp minor 'Lento con gran espressione' (1)Diana Hughes3:58
Nocturne B. 49 in C-sharp minor 'Lento con gran espressione' (2)Frank Lévy3:45
Nocturne C-sharp minorWładysław Szpilman3:28
Nocturne cis-mollYu Kosuge4:19
Nocturne cis-Moll op. psth.Dénes Várjon4:03
Nocturne en do dièse mineurFrédéric Dupuis, Joanna Kozielska4:43
Nocturne en do dièse mineurWonny Song4:08
Nocturne en ut dièse mineurMaria Tipo4:25
Nocturne en ut dièse mineur opus posthumeFryderyk Chopin4:26
Nocturne en ut dièse mineur, op. posth.Thierry de Brunhoff4:26
Nocturne en Ut dièse mineur, Op. posth.Frédéric Chopin4:14
Nocturne en ut dièse mineur, op. posthumeBrigitte Engerer3:56
Nocturne en ut dièse mineur, op. posthumeAnne Queffélec4:30
Nocturne en ut dièse mineur, op. posthumeClaudio Arrau4:36
Nocturne for Piano No. 20 in C Sharp Minor op 72Vitalij Margulis4:11
Nocturne for Piano, No. 20, C-sharp minor, Opus 72Vitalij Margulis4:14
Nocturne in C sharp minor "Lento con gran espressione" [wn 37]Chopin4:05
Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, KK IVa/16Jan Lisiecki5:01
Nocturne in C sharp minor, op. posth. KK IVa no. 16: Lento con gran espressioneAlice Sara Ott4:17
Nocturne in C-Sharp Major, Op. posthMikulás Skuta4:39
Nocturne in C-sharp minorNadia Reisenberg, Clara Rockmore3:56
Nocturne in C-sharp minorRoland Pöntinen4:46
Nocturne in C-sharp minorKäbi Laretei4:02
Nocturne in C-sharp minorFou Ts'ong4:06
Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830)Janusz Olejniczak4:06
Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830): Lento con gran espressioneFou Ts'ong4:04
Nocturne in C-sharp minor (Posthumous)Andrzej Wasowski4:51
Nocturne in C-sharp minor / Shape of My HeartmedleyQueenz of Piano4:32
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