[Chopin] Etude Op.25 No.12 c minor, A.K.A "The Ocean"
쇼팽 에뛰드, 대항
Valentina Lisitsa
No.12 "The Ocean" - often called The Ocean - employs parallel arpeggios in both hands up and down the keyboard with an effect suggesting the mighty waves of an ocean. Huneker, never at a loss for good descriptive phraseology, felt in it "the thunder and spray of the sea when it tumbles and roars on some sullen and savage shore." Essentially a study in pianistic resonance, the music is at base a chorale which Chopin has expanded into what Schmitz reckoned as "a gigantic play of chimes." Others have heard in it "the sound of great guns." Whatever Chopin's intention, this epic of pianism - with its triumphant major-key ending - never fails to sweep away its hearers' imaginations as it sweeps them to their feet.
