This beautiful collection of 5 cds features music played by Wladyslaw Szpilman and spans his musical career. Included are Szpilman's original works as well as the music of Fredryk Chopin, Siergiej Rachmaninow, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg and Cesar Franck all played by Mr. Szpilman.
One of the CD's is dedicated to children's fairy tales with musical excerpts from text written by: Jana Brzechwy, Wandy Chotomskiej and Hanny Januszewskie. This music was intended for but not limited to the young!
Personal photographs of Mr Szpilman with friends and family are shown inside each cd cover.
Władysław Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer, and memoirist. Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting how he survived the Holocaust. In November 1998 Władysław Szpilman was honoured by the president of Poland with a Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Szpilman