[Chopin] Etude Op.25 No.10 b minor
쇼팽 에뛰드
Valentina Lisitsa
No.10 empowers legato chromatic octaves-in-unison with the force of Nature, unleashing tumultuous surges of tone. Schmitz likened it to "a powerful surf with its overlapping onrushes and its sudden breaking turns." Poised between the work's two such tidal waves is the exquisite lyricism of the central section, also in octaves for the right hand and containing an embryonic chorale tucked into an inner voice. Frederick Niecks, a late 19th century biographer of Chopin, describes the piece as "a real pandemonium; for a while holier sounds intervene, but finally hell prevails."
