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The 19th Chopin Competition starts today in Warsaw so it’s only right that I post my favorite section of the the Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53 (Heroic Polonaise). Fourty years ago, it was 19-year-old Stanislav Bunin – son of Stanislav Neuhaus and Ludmila Bunina, grandson of Heinrich Neuhaus – who dazzled the audience and was awarded the First Prize, the Best Concerto and the Best Polonaise prizes! Was it unanimous? No: jury member Fou Ts’ong (3rd Prize winner in 1955) refused to sign the ver