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Danny Tan wrote:
>... I have had serious arguments with my girlfriend about Chopin Piano
>Concerto No. 1. She is completely obsessed with the second movement
>which she said is "so beautiful". To me, it seems just a long string
>of beautiful notes but do not "connect" emotionally. I played her the
>2nd movements of Rach Piano 2, Beethoven Piano 5, Grieg's Piano Concerto,
>and "challenged" her that these are more worth listening. It resulted
>in a disastrous quarrel that I surrender (cos' she won't talk to me), by
>promising to listen to the Chopin 20 times again. Perhaps some Chopin die
>hards in the List can enlighten me how to listen to this concerto and like
>it.
Oh for the ability to identify passages in a score!
When I first heard the slow movement Lipatti recording of this concerto,
I was transfixed by a transitional passage towards the middle of the
movement, repeated a little later, in which the notes, embedded in extended
rests, seem to fall like drops of dew from a leaf. Other pianists have
approximated that effect; none, IMO, have duplicated it. Those short
episodes, if nothing else, make the entire concerto worth repeated
listening for me.
Walter Meyer
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