Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin Nocturne Op 55 No 2 in E flat

Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin Nocturne Op 55 No 2 in E flat

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• Arthur Rubinstein
• Chopin
• Nocturne
• Op 55
• No 2
• E flat

[stevemaster247]

i just imagine how this was written....a night in poland...chopin sitting to his piano...with oil lamps and candles to light his hands and just letting his soulcome out...:)

[Brighid45]

This was my mother's favorite nocturne. It always makes me think of her.

[5268daniel]

Could well be wrong but I seem to remember Sands quoting that the process of composition was tortuous for Chopin - the initial themes and ideas coming quickly but then followed by an absolutely agonising process of refinement. Quite different from the romantic idea of him sitting at the piano by candlelight and the music just flowing forth.

[dreamofglory101]

does it matter where he composed it? The history is also important, but really, the...thing in there that manages to touch your heart whenever you hear it goes beyond space and time.

[darkdemonded]

@stevemaster247 nice imagination..but if you want to be percise it's a night in paris or vienna...because chopin left poland at the age of 18 for the rest of his life... :'( because a revolution started in poland when he was abroad and the hole rigme changed and he couldnt enter his homeland ever again..and that's not the great part yet...before he died he asked his sister to burry his body in france but take his very heart and burry it in poland....how chopin...

it's not chopin...it's god.

[tuptuptuptup]

@Lisazkonto He spent his summers in Nohant and might have composed it there, we'll probably never know.

[stevemaster247]

@Lisazkonto yup :P

[Lisazkonto]

Chopin lived in Paris but otherwise probably right on track ;)

[gerardbedecarter]

Beautiful playing by the master himself.

[Snezhinka9]

something about this nocturne makes me think of Beethoven's late quartets...