Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva's New Album, "Chopin: Voyage"

Released on Pentatone, the album focuses on Chopin's late works, all composed while surrounded by nature

Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva has released her newest album, Chopin: Voyage, on Pentatone.

The First Prize winner at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in 2010, Yulianna documents her journey with the music of Frédéric Chopin in this new release. Included in the album are Chopin's 2 Nocturnes Op. 62, Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61, Barcarolle Op. 60, Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58, and his 3 Mazurkas Op. 59.

The album was recorded at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, against the backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains, similar to how Chopin composed his late works while surrounded by nature. To purchase and listen to the album, click here.

Watch the Behind the Scenes for the new album below:

Yulianna Avdeeva's label debut album with Pentatone, Resilience (2023), featured music by Szpilman, Weinberg, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. A new recording of Shostakovich’s Op. 87 will be released in Spring 2025. Her recordings of the Chopin concertos with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Frans Brüggen (2013), her three solo albums featuring works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Prokofiev (2014, 2016, 2017), and her collaboration with Gidon Kremer in Weinberg’s chamber music (2017 and 2019), are a formidable record of her art, along with a Deutsche Grammophon solo recording as part of a milestone collection dedicated to Chopin Competition Gold Medalists.