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After decades of liking his work, I learned one of his little preludes recently and now he's just freddy the disconsolate schmaltzmeister to me. the discovery s

After decades of liking his work, I learned one of his little preludes recently and now he's just freddy the disconsolate schmaltzmeister to me. the discovery seems too late, nobody is going to be that maudlin again.

djtango 2y ago
I was obsessed with Chopin for a while then went off his music for many years. I have had a resurgence in my interest in his music. Probably due to the Chopin competition rekindled it alongside with finally getting hold of a piano again. The etudes are timeless
- stevage 2y ago
  Have you tried the new Chopin podcast by Ben Laude?
  - djtango 2y ago
    My YouTube has been blasting it at me. I unfortunately have been quite short of time lately but I did really enjoy the video that Garrick Ohlsson put out on Chopin Piano Innovations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg
    - stevage 2y ago
      Me too, but honestly I love almost everything from those two.
vixen99 2y ago
Maybe unintentionally, the word ‘little’ is quite dismissive. Perhaps you’re thinking of one of the three very minor Preludes which no one plays and not included in the 24 Preludes Opus 28. If you do mean something like the 4th Prelude in E Minor for instance, should it be prefaced with a trigger warning that ‘you're about to hear music that is - effusively sad or full of self-pity; extremely sentimental or 'tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly? (American Heritage Dictionary definition of maudlin). Written much later, would you regard Rachmaninov's Vocalise (1915) or Barber's Adagio (1936) as 'maudlin' not to mention a vast number of other compositions that explore the kind of intensity of feeling that is expressed in the 4th Chopin Prelude. Given that the pianist Alfred Brendel considers ‘Chopin’s Preludes as the most glorious achievement in piano music after Beethoven and Schubert’ you might wonder why he takes a somewhat view from you. Could you be missing something?

djtango 2y ago

I was obsessed with Chopin for a while then went off his music for many years. I have had a resurgence in my interest in his music. Probably due to the Chopin competition rekindled it alongside with finally getting hold of a piano again. The etudes are timeless

stevage 2y ago
Have you tried the new Chopin podcast by Ben Laude?
- djtango 2y ago
  My YouTube has been blasting it at me. I unfortunately have been quite short of time lately but I did really enjoy the video that Garrick Ohlsson put out on Chopin Piano Innovations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DUdMi27qWg
  - stevage 2y ago
    Me too, but honestly I love almost everything from those two.

vixen99 2y ago

Maybe unintentionally, the word ‘little’ is quite dismissive. Perhaps you’re thinking of one of the three very minor Preludes which no one plays and not included in the 24 Preludes Opus 28. If you do mean something like the 4th Prelude in E Minor for instance, should it be prefaced with a trigger warning that ‘you're about to hear music that is - effusively sad or full of self-pity; extremely sentimental or 'tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly? (American Heritage Dictionary definition of maudlin). Written much later, would you regard Rachmaninov's Vocalise (1915) or Barber's Adagio (1936) as 'maudlin' not to mention a vast number of other compositions that explore the kind of intensity of feeling that is expressed in the 4th Chopin Prelude. Given that the pianist Alfred Brendel considers ‘Chopin’s Preludes as the most glorious achievement in piano music after Beethoven and Schubert’ you might wonder why he takes a somewhat view from you. Could you be missing something?