13/08/2017 The Chopin Etudes

I think Opus 25 was a tougher task for Chopin, because he'd already done the first set,

so he must have had something more that he wanted to say.

I don't find them as difficult as Opus 10, and certainly not as difficult to run through in one go.

I think you could say there's slightly more music to it.

I guess it's more of a question of the sound that you're producing.

It's not watching your fingers and working at them,

but it's a lot to do with the sound effect that you can create.

No. 1, there you're playing lots of notes,

but you want it to sound almost like a choir.

You want to hear a very beautiful melody being played,

a barbican of shimmering sound coming out from the piano.

That's more where the difficulty lies, rather than just getting through the notes.

MUSIC: "Opus 25, No. 1"

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