Chopin's 4th Ballade as interpreted by Stanislav Bunin. The ballade successfully combines the sonata form with the theme & variations. It is characterized by intensive polyphony and technical severity, only a pianist with no technical limitations can do justice to this masterwork of the Romantic period.
But what is even more amazing is that the Ballade is musically intense which is made even more dynamic by the extreme technical demands on the performer.
Here the opening bars- light-footed and tenderly played-- are like a ray of light that makes it through the cracks on the wall, and during the last section --the final variation before the coda, the intensity is such that you feel like you have an out-of-body experience.
Here the opening bars- light-footed and tenderly played-- are like a ray of light that makes it through the cracks on the wall, and during the last section --the final variation before the coda, the intensity is such that you feel like you have an out-of-body experience.
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