Chopin Etude Op. 10 no. 6 E-flat minor

Reknowned music critic Henry T. Finck once said of this study in chromaticism, "the etude seems as if it were in a sort of double minor...much sadder than ordinary minor." I couldn't agree more, for I remember crying when I first heard this piece. In the heavily-flatted key of E-flat minor, it at least ends on a hopeful picardy third.

Forgive the sound quality of this recording. I recorded around twenty classical pieces on a cassette recorder in 1999 and 2000. I then compiled the pieces onto cassette tapes and distributed them to friends and family as gifts. This was recorded in my basement apartment in August of 1999 on my old, slightly out-of-tune Kimball spinnet. I'm only posting a handful of these recordings for posterity's sake.

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