Again breaking the conventional mould, however, an obsessive, even violent transitional section leads towards a haunting interlude based on another Polish dance, the much gentler mazurka. 44 returns to virtuoso territory, its outer sections celebrating the triple-time swagger of Poland’s national dance in heroic style.
2 demonstrates the same peerless ability to sustain a singing, searching musical line above a murmuring accompaniment, the Polonaise in F sharp minor op. 28 set) we find Chopin in a thoughtful mood: a single, simple keyboard figure quietly initiates a remarkable journey through remote harmonic regions in a process that seems as natural as breathing. themeless keyboard figuration, its turbulent progress cut off as abruptly as d began. Then come the bleak and severe Funeral March and the extraordinary Finale – a compressed swirl of dissonant. The passionate sweep of the first movement is followed by a hard-driving Scherzo with a characteristically yearning central section. The Piano Sonata in B flat minor – the second of Chopin’s three works in the medium – is a large-scale masterwork that encompasses both his more conventional side and the radical streak always liable to emerge. while exploring the same, very individual world of Romantic sensibility. While the performance of much of this music demands huge reserves of virtuosity, he also devised some of it – notably the Nocturnes – to be feasible for talented amateurs. Partly due to his illness and partly to a streak of sophisticated reserve in his temperament, he gave few public concerts after his Polish years, supporting himself instead by private teaching and by publishing his pieces. There, in spite of a constant struggle with the tuberculosis which was to cause his death at 39, he worked intensely hard at his composing, though he hated the tedium of writing down his music and preferred to develop a work towards its final stages by improvising at the keyboard. He never returned, and most of the rest of his life was based in France. A political crackdown in Chopin’s native country brought about his voluntary exile in protest. In his two piano concertos, both still written in Poland, an individual style is already distinct – one that filters the long-spun melodic lines of Italian bel canto opera through the sonority of the piano, along with a contrasting love of dance rhythms and the ability to summon powerful surges of Romantic drama. Born and brought up in Russian-dominated Poland, Chopin had begun to make his name when he decided to move (after a short period in Vienna) to Paris in 1831 to pursue a world-class career. All of his works involve the piano, most of them as a solo instrument yet the artistic scope of his music is astonishingly wide. One of the supreme composer-pianists of all time, his fabulous keyboard technique was virtually self-taught. 2 in C minor Her numerous recordings include Chopin s Fantasie in F minor and Scherzo in C sharp minor.Even among the great composers, Chopin’s achievement was unique. 1, 2 9 and 11 Berlioz: Serenade Mendelssohn: Scherzo in E, Op.
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