And for the breaking hands part, to be fair it's not really on purpose, I just like the mood that it brings and I think subconsciously applied it. But now that I've read your comment and relisten the piece it might have been a bit too much. I thought Chopin's favourite piece was the very obscure Allegreto de Concert op 46, supposedly a draft for the 1st movement of a potential 3rd Concerto, He even stated "when I return the Poland, this will be the first piece I play".
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Copy Link to Clipboard. Share Post on Facebook. Share Post on Twitter. Share Post on Reddit. Piano accessories and music gift items, digital piano dolly, music theme party goods, and more! Some of the rhythmic irregularities are clearly because of technical problems or just not having practiced a passage enough, and I think most of the others are mostly a case of ignoring what's marked in the score and playing how the OP felt like.
No great pianist has ever come close to the amount of rhythmic irregularities as in this performance, and I can say that having only heard a few great pianists play this piece. I can't imagine any good teacher or competition judge approving of a pianist's performance of the piece this way. There's a difference between heartfelt and rewriting the score. Show Likes. Our Most Popular Forums. Piano Forum. FAQ - Piano Forum. Piano Tuner-Technicians Forum. Adult Beginners Forum. Themed Recital Sub-Forum.
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Rubinstein captures their spirit to perfection. Fantaisie in F minor This piece from , when Chopin was at the height of his powers, is a remarkable creation with something of the heightened atmospheres and cause-and-effect progression of a literary masterpiece. Chopin was in his element when improvising — imagine if he had written down everything he played! Still, every pianist who tackles this work can offer a different and personal take on its drama.
Piano Concerto No. Their freshness, vitality and melodic flair remains enchanting, making them both perennial concert favourites and best Chopin works. But he has a special way of setting the piano tone within the whole texture: the strings often seem to form a luminous halo around the solo melody, while the wind instruments provide delicate duets with the pianist. Do you want to be the first to hear the latest news from the classical world?
Follow uDiscover Classical on Facebook and Twitter. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. Format: UK English. Click to comment. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Few of his compositions translate successfully to other instruments. Interestingly, this most romantic of Romantic composers disliked the association and this is borne out by the fact that, unlike his contemporaries Schumann and Liszt, his inspiration never came from literature or painting.
Even his two concertos and three sonatas are really shortish pieces sewn together into larger classical forms, forms which, he realised early on, were not his strength.
He was hypercritical of everything he wrote and what we hear played with such inevitability and apparently effortlessly flowing melody cost him much. George Sand described him going frantic trying to capture on paper what he had in his head, crossing out, destroying, beginning afresh, scratching out once more, re-working a single bar countless times.
There are few works which do not seem genuinely inspired. The seemingly inexhaustible variety of moods and ideas, endless supply of beautiful melodies and poised discrimination combine to make his oeuvre one of the high points of human creation.
A genius". Before he left in November, his old teacher Elsner presented him with a silver urn of Polish earth with the admonishment "May you never forget your native land wherever you go, nor cease to love it with a warm and faithful heart. Despite a Polish revolt against Russian rule soon afterwards, Chopin headed for Vienna probably he would have been too physically frail to serve in the army in any case.
It remained his home for the rest of his life. The Parisians did not take to his playing or music immediately and Chopin thought for a time of leaving for America.
His destiny was changed by Prince Radziwill who introduced him to the salon of Baron Jacques de Rothschild. Here, Chopin triumphed and from then on his career as a composer and highly paid teacher was a story of unbroken success.
Chopin was a sensitive, fastidious man who never enjoyed exactly robust health. The rich, privileged world of the aristocratic and wealthy salons not only appealed to his snobbish instincts he liked to mingle with money and beautiful women but provided the perfect ambience for his music and his particular style of playing.
Audiences admired his cantabile singing touch. The family put a stop to the affair. His next was perhaps the most unlikely woman of his circle: Aurore Dupin Mme Dudevant , the radical, free-thinking novelist who called herself George Sand. One of her personal letters implies that the physical side of their life was embraced less than enthusiastically by the composer.
He began having haemorrhages and hallucinations and it was only a prompt departure for the mainland that saved his life he had another haemorrhage in Barcelona. Sand seemed comparatively unaffected; "Chopin", said Liszt "felt and often repeated that in breaking this long affection, this powerful bond, he had broken his life".
A Scottish pupil of Chopin, Jane Stirling, persuaded him to make a trip to England and Scotland with her but this and a few fund raising concerts undermined his health further and when he returned to Paris he became a virtual recluse, too weak to compose or teach.
Chopin had a good idea of his worth and was determined that only his best work should survive. The polonaise had long been out of fashion as a dance form when Chopin revived it. He wrote 18, all for piano solo except two: his Introduction and Polonaise brillante for cello and piano and this one. Both parts of the work are heard as often as not as a piano solo these days.
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