The addition of over 1500 recordings of Chopin’s music – including key performances of piano repertoire, including all Mazurkas, Preludes, Etudes, Polonaises and more – is another string to the bow of the British Library’s Archival Sound Recordings.
The Sound Archive has now built up a formidable array of early recordings of canonical composters, comprising over 500 hours. All the pre-1958 recordings are available freely to UK users.