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== Recordings == The [[British Library]] notes that "Chopin's works have been recorded by all the great pianists of the recording era." The earliest recording was an 1895 performance by [[Pavel Pabst|Paul Pabst]] of the [[Nocturnes, Op. 62 (Chopin)|Nocturne in E major, Op. 62, No. 2]]. The British Library site makes available a number of historic recordings, including some by [[Alfred Cortot]], [[Ignaz Friedman]], [[Vladimir Horowitz]], [[Benno Moiseiwitsch]], [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]], [[Arthur Rubinstein]], [[Xaver Scharwenka]], [[Josef Hofmann]], [[Vladimir de Pachmann]], [[Moriz Rosenthal]] and many others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chopin |url=http://sounds.bl.uk/classical-music/chopin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206192339/https://sounds.bl.uk/Classical-music/Chopin |archive-date=6 December 2022 |website=British Library|access-date=22 December 2013}}. Recordings accessible free online throughout the [[European Union]].</ref>{{dead link|date=December 2024}} A select discography of recordings of Chopin works by pianists representing the various pedagogic traditions stemming from Chopin is given by James Methuen-Campbell in his work tracing the lineage and character of those traditions.{{sfn|Methuen-Campbell|1981|pp=241–267}} Numerous recordings of Chopin's works are available. On the occasion of the composer's bicentenary, the critics of ''[[The New York Times]]'' recommended performances by the following contemporary pianists (among many others): [[Martha Argerich]], [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Evgeny Kissin]], [[Ivan Moravec]], [[Murray Perahia]], [[Maria João Pires]], [[Maurizio Pollini]], [[Alexandre Tharaud]], [[Yundi]], and [[Krystian Zimerman]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Tommasini |first1=Anthony |author-link1=Anthony Tommasini |last2=Kozinn |first2=Allan |author-link2=Allan Kozinn |last3=Smith |first3=Steve |last4=Schweitzer |first4=Vivien |date=27 May 2010 |title=1 Composer, 2 Centuries, Many Picks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/arts/music/28chopinweb.html |access-date=1 December 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=13 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213173321/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/arts/music/28chopinweb.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Warsaw Chopin Society organises the ''Grand prix du disque de F. Chopin'' for notable Chopin recordings, held every five years.<ref>[http://www.grandprix.chopin.pl/hist_en.html Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827174806/http://www.grandprix.chopin.pl/hist_en.html |date=27 August 2016 }}, accessed 2 January 2014.</ref>
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