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Chopin - Etudes Op. 10 & Ballades

The pianistic universe of Chopin is radical, in its harmony, its articulation, its melismata, its phrasing. This radicality is heard both as expressive violence - Chopin is an extremist - and as a perpetual interrogation of the foundations of the piano. Its virtuosity is never demonstrative: one always encounters harmonic problems closely linked to the placing of the hand, in an equilibrium constantly compromised and immediately restored. Hugues Dufourt.