Etudes op. 10, Ballades

Sarkechik, Nima

ZZT 080401

Those who have crooked fingers will straighten them in these Etudes, but those who have straight fingers must beware of them..., wrote the poet Ludwig Rellstab about Chopin's Etudes op. 10. The peculiarity of this cycle of practice pieces for the piano can hardly be better described, since the purpose of Etudes was usually to show the stony path to perfect piano playing in systematic exercises. And the piano school, which was in a state of flux at the time, did this to a great extent: the drill of Karl Czernys The art of fluency has remained in sorrowful memory for generations of piano students. Chopin, however, in the twelve pieces of his first collection of etudes arranged around the circle of fifths conveys all the finesses of pianistic technique at an almost vertiginously high level, but virtuoso abilities alone are not enough to illuminate the poetic depth of these miniatures beyond their technical demands.

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18-09-2017

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