CHOPIN sans CHOPIN – Adam Golka, piano

Released on a limited edition DigiSleeve CD and on all digital platforms: 15 May 2026
FHR168

Chopin sans Chopin is Adam Golka’s highly personal tribute to Frédéric Chopin, featuring works inspired by Chopin instead of music by the master himself. The album includes a plethora of international composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including choices inspired by Golka’s Polish-American background and unique family history. The album includes a première recording of the 1894 Mazurka in E minor by Natalia Janotha (1856–1932). This is Golka’s fourth album on FHR.

Adam Golka piano

Gabriel FAURÉ (1845–1924)
1. Nocturne No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 36 (c. 1884)

Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897)
2. Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4 (1851)

Natalia JANOTHA (1856–1932)
3. Mazurka in E minor, Op. 6, No. 1 (1894) *

Alexander SCRIABIN (1872–1915)
4. Fantasie in B minor, Op. 28 (1900)

Roman MACIEJEWSKI (1910–1998)
5. Mazurka No. 13, ‘Evening’ (1990)

Manuel PONCE (1882–1948)
6. Balada Mexicana (1915)

George GERSHWIN (1898–1937)
7–9 Preludes (1926)

Władysław SZPILMAN (1911–2000)
10. Mazurka in F minor (1942)

Nikolai KAPUSTIN (1937–2020)
Concert Etudes, Op. 40 (1984)
11. No. 7, ‘Intermezzo’ (Allegretto)
12. No. 8, ‘Finale’ (Prestissimo)

Total Timing: 56:23

* Première recording

Recorded at Kulturstiftung Marienmünster, Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 19–21 December, 2023
Recorded, edited and produced by Florian Schmidt (Pegasus Musikproduktion)