54 (Live)Ĭhopin – Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Op. The jury awarded the top prize to the 24-year-old Canadian pianist immediately after the final round at Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.Ĭhopin – Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, Op.
But this time the question has been answered-not with scorn but with complete accord, and the two hurtle together towards the scherzo’s triumphant conclusion.Deutsche Grammophon today releases recordings made live during the various stages of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition by Bruce Liu, the newly crowned winner of the world’s most prestigious competition for classical musicians. The coda is superbly written and conceived, for now the questioning phrase returns in an altered form followed by the answer. Here the music becomes increasingly agitated before reaching an impassioned climax and a return to the opening subject.
And on another occasion: ‘It must be a charnel house.’ There follows one of Chopin’s most inspired lyrical themes (in D flat major, as is the majority of the scherzo) before a chorale-like central section.
Wilhelm von Lenz, who studied the work with Chopin, reported that for the composer, ‘it was never questioning enough, never piano enough, never vaulted ( tombé) enough, never important enough’. The B flat minor scherzo, the most popular of the four, opens with a striking phrase which has been aptly cited as an instance of scorn in music: a timid question followed by a forceful put-down. The quartet of independent works he composed with this title between 18 has little to do with the earlier scherzos of Beethoven and Mendelssohn or with the derivation of the word ‘scherzo’ (meaning ‘joke’ or ‘jest’), although Chopin does preserve the A-B-A structure of the minuet and trio, the scherzo’s musical antecedent. The scherzo is another form extended and redefined by Chopin. The Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31, was written and published in the same year as Chopin wrote the ‘Funeral March’ from his Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35.
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