ExclusiveChopin: Mazurka in B major, Op. 63 no. 1

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka in B major, Op. 63 no. 1. This beautiful piece was played by Edward Neeman. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

The first of the opus 63 Mazurkas, in B major, begins with the jaunty theme of a mazur. It is immediately followed by a second theme, in which the almost palpable, concrete recollection of a rustic band becomes disrupted.

In the late autumn of 1848, in a letter from Scotland, Chopin sighed: ‘I barely still remember how they sing back home’. The B major Mazurka ends in quiet disturbance, but the last two chords ultimately vanquish that entropy. So it is a fluctuation of moods that comprises this work, conceived at Nohant, during Chopin’s last autumn there, and prepared for publication a year later, in his Parisian solitude.

Source: chopin.nifc.pl

The video was filmed by Simone Schlegel in our garden in Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.

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