Chopin the scherzos chopin s scherzos form a climax in the history of the genre. Columbia masterworks taupe and tangerine center label. Scherzo no 1 in b minor, op 20 chopin from cda67456. This is astonishing piano playing and chopin interpretation, at its very best, fully measuresup to the greatness of these pieces. For 1 player content is available under the creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Nocturnes and scherzi rubinstein 19361937 for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. It is complex and considered to be one of chopins more difficult works. Notes publication date from hofmeisters verzeichnis. Scherzo is the italian word for joke, so most musical scherzos attempt to be overtly humorous in some way.
Mozart, schubert, berg and liszt 20191011 rso festival, helsinki. The piece begins with the tempo marking presto con fuoco. For the title page and preface for volume 6 see scherzo no. No one ever plays scherzo 1 given its darkness and anger. Arrangements and transcriptions for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano sauter. Robert schumann compared this scherzo to a byronic poem, so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt. His astonishment is easily understood, since the name scherzo it. This page was last edited on 26 september 2017, at 00. A detailed guide that analyzes the structural, harmonic and thematic frame of this work. At the time, political tensions were high between poland and the russian empire. This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzos, with an almost beethovenian grandeur.
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