piano
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Arosh — piano
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- 0:10
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- Recorded at home
Programme note
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Chopin published the Op. 9 nocturnes in 1832, when he was twenty-one. The second is the one everybody knows: a single long melody over a rocking left hand, coming back three times, each time more decorated than the last.
The difficulty is not the notes — it is that the ornaments have to sound improvised rather than counted. Arosh takes the third return slightly slower than the first two, which gives the final cadenza somewhere to arrive.