[Chopin] Etude Op.25 No.11 a minor, A.K.A "The Winter Wind"
쇼팽 에뛰드, 겨울바람
Valentina Lisitsa
No.11 "The Winter Wind" - known to everyone as The Winter Wind - is really a magnificent march based , as we hear from a pair of quiet phrases that introduce the work, on a motive almost identical to Chopin's Funeral March. This cortège-like theme is ever present, proceeding grandly and implacably against icy gales of figurations hurtling across the treble. Huneker is right when he says, "It takes prodigious power and endurance to play this work, prodigious power, passion and no little poetry. It is open air music, storm music, and at times moves in processional splendor. Small souled men, no matter how agile their fingers, should avoid it." Chopin warned a pupil that such music "can be treacherous and dangerous for the uninitiated."
