His pupil Wilhelm von Lenz recalls an amusing story: "I tormented Chopin most with the famous Nocturne in E flat major, Op. After an intense trill the calm is restored and the piece ends very quietly.īackgroundThis Nocturne is the second in a set of three written between 18, when Chopin was about twenty years old. After the last occurrence of the "A" theme, there follows a coda which at first seems bound to end the piece in a peaceful way, but instead builds up to a great, passionate climax marked fortissimo. Throughout the whole piece, Chopin uses the same kind of bass-chord accompaniment, forming a harmonically rich and stable foundation for the fluid melody. The themes become more elaborate each time they're played, with more trills, cadenzas and quick runs.
This Nocturne is composed of two themes that are repeated in what is known as a rounded binary form, or A-A-B-A-B-A. 2 is a characteristic example of how Chopin delicately mixes ear-caressing beauty with hints of despair and melancholy. It's such a well known piece that it's glaringly obvious when something is skipped.Sign up to listen & download > Ear-caressing beautyThe E flat Nocturne, op. Just listen to that little 15 second segment and ask if it wasn't just worth having a second or two of silence between what you needed to say in order to let the music flow better in the video. A lot of what you do is quite brilliantly concise but methodically presented that if these sudden chops are put in - it's quite jarring. The me, the cut content was so minute that I didn't think it was worth removing. It's like those videos of people blogging where there are so many cuts and trims during their speech that it sounds a little choppy, even though grammatically what they are saying makes sense. Given the cut notes might have only extended the video by 3 or 4 seconds, I didn't think the cuts were really necessary - they sound very sudden compared to a lot of the other phrases where you don't just truncate them. Given the phrase (if I'm not mistaken) is only 4 bars long, and you literally played 3 out of the 4 bars, the cuts did seem quite odd in this instance.
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