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Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 Presto con Fuoco

This piece was written in 1831, during the November Uprising against the Russian Empire. A friend of Chopin, Thomas Albrecht, to whom it was dedicated, convinced him to stay in Vienna, away from his family in Poland, to build his musical career. During this time he only played one concert, where he performed his concerto in E minor. Because of the struggle and the war, his pieces changed from a brilliant style one to a new, darker tonality. Chopin composed this piece and several of the Opus 10 etudes around the same time.

Scherzo is "joke" in Italian. Yet this piece is dark, suspenseful, and full of chaos, where the first clear melody is in the slow B Major middle section, but it returns to a chaotic murmur soon after. It is hypothesized that this portrayed Chopin's feelings toward the war, or told a story about rebellion in his homeland of Poland. 

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Christine Zerafa performing Chopin's Nocturne op 9 no 3 in the Chopin Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music (2010)

Chopin - Nocturne op 9 no 3 in B major

Glenn Gould - Bach

Chopin's 24 Preludes satisfy so many different tastes in a single opus. from the (mostly) serene A Major (no. 7) to the whimsical F Major (no. 23), elegant and moving Bb Major (No. 21), the energetic but unsettling G Minor (no. 22) and the restless finale, D Minor (no. 24), 

One could easily mistake the Preludes for being minimalistic in scope. But unlike other expansive works, whether by Chopin himself or other great composers, these preludes cover enormous territory: in traditional sonata form, the composer settles on a very limited number of themes and then expands and transforms these basic ideas into elaborate musical tapestries woven with but two or three threads. Chopin here, though, invents not two or three key themes but several dozen of them, and then let’s each one free to follow its own direction.

16 Chopin  Prelude No. 16 In Bb Minor (Presto Con Fuoco)

Ernst - Last Rose of the Summer / Ion Mazur, violin

Ernst - The Last Rose of the Summer / Ion Mazur, violin

Brahms Piano Concerto No.1, 3rd movement

DONALD RUNNICLES conducts
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7

This performance was recorded during concerts January 18-21, 2018.

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7

Hewen Ma performs Images for Piano by Debussy. Recorded live during the Marion Rubin Berman ’31 Piano Honors Concert April 12, 2012 in NEC's Jordan Hall in Boston.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts

Debussy: Images for Piano -  Cloches a travers les feuilles

Darling In The FranXX - Hitori

Antonio Vivaldi - Winter (Full) - The Four Seasons

The Last Samurai (classical piano version)

Franz Schubert - Ave Maria

Recorded at Fantasy Studio
Violin by June Park
Piano by Miles Graber

2011-12

Bach Violin Partita No.3 in E major, BWV 1006 1. Preludio

Michael Henry Zimmerman studied piano with Anne Koscielny, Raymond Hanson, Morton Estrin and Louis Nagel. He is an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Academy and Deerfield Academy, and a graduate of Hartt College of Music (Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance). He was fortunate to have been born to musically discerning parents who wisely encouraged him to pursue graduate studies and a career in business instead of the piano. When not studying classical music, he consults to Fortune 500 businesses on matters of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. To this day, his passion for great music survives even when his listeners do not.

16 Chopin Prelude No. 16 In Bb Minor (Presto Con Fuoco)

Michael Henry Zimmerman

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