🎶🇵🇱 Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Evgeny Kissin (piano) | Live Concert, USSR, 1985 🎹 • Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 is a work of farewell before it even sounds like one. Composed in 1830, when Chopin was only 20 years old, the concerto was written shortly before he left Warsaw for good, heading to Paris and inevitable exile. It’s not just virtuosity: it’s a composer trying to translate longing, passion, and uncertainty into arpeggios and melodies that breathe like conf