Progetto Martha Argerich

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Fryderyk Chopin

Preludes, op. 28

 

“A strange collection of preludes”: thus Robert Schumann confessed – in no uncertain terms – his perplexity about Fryderyk Chopin’s Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28, shortly after having received a review copy of them”. I admit that I imagined them to be very different, done along the lines of his etudes, that is, more grandiosely,” Schumann continued. “They are sketches, beginnings of etudes or, if you wish, ruins, eagles’ feathers, wildly strewn around and jumbled together”. So even the forward-looking Schumann had trouble in perceiving the absolute novelty of these 24 pieces, in which Chopin was able to speak a language that no one before him had known how to speak. In them he renounces every sort of magniloquence and synthesises, with aphoristic refinement – and sometimes in less than a minute – the treasure of an inventive talent that had finally been liberated from all structural worries and that was able to reveal in a tiny piece (as, for that matter, Schumann had managed to do in Carnaval and Kinderszenen) the secrets of a pure fascination with music.

1.in C maj. (Agitato)
2. in A min. (Lento)
3. in G maj. (Vivace)
4. in E min. (Largo)
5. in D maj. (Allegro molto)
6. in B min. (Lento assai)
7. in A maj. (Andantino)
8. in F sharp min. (Molto agitato)
9. in E maj. (Largo)
10. in C sharp min. (Allegro molto)
11. in B maj. (Vivace)
12. in G sharp min. (Presto)
13. in F sharp min. (Lento)
14. in E flat min. (Allegro)
15. in D falt maj. (Sostenuto)
16. in B flat min. (Presto con fuoco)
17. in A flat maj. (Allegretto)
18. in F min. (Allegro molto)
19. in E flat maj. (Vivace)
20. in C min. (Largo)
21. in B flat maj. (Cantabile)
22. in G min. (Molto agitato)
23. in F maj. (Moderato)
24. in D min. (Allegro appassionato)

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