Chopin’s sonata in b flat minorSeptember 7th, 2008
Each time I exhume the Chopin’s sonata in B-flat minor, I’m wondering what he had in mind while writing the final movement. Four pages of triplets as fast as possible, pianissimo finishing fortissimo. Strange, but I love it. What I love even more, it’s to take advantage of this final to play an atonal work just after. I don’t know why but moving on to Berio’s Sequenza IV from this nebulous last movement seems to me like the finest delicacy…
I prefer it to the B minor one. More concise, more tense, the sonata opus 35 is a work I perform with great pleasure: I always find something new in it. Each time, I feel like rediscovering it, seeing it from another point of view. Even the slow movement, the famous funeral march, which everyone knows, I love playing it, I like to play with it, because it is particularly suited to this music.
It’s one of my favorite work. I think it also likes me: this sonata never played me tricks.
What about you? How this Chopin’s opus 35 talks to you? Does it give you this impression of permanent novelty?