Debussy dedicated this piece to his daughter Claude-Emma, nicknamed “Chou Chou”.Ĩ. The beautiful right-handed melody splashes colour directly over the top of the delicately placed left-hand. The essence of Debussy is recognised within seconds of the start of this piece. Debussy: Serenade for the Doll, No 3 from Children’s Corner Indeed, it turned out to be his penultimate work written for solo piano.ħ. This set includes some of the most beloved Brahms ever wrote, and were written during a late compositional flourish in the 1890s. This piece is the second of six pieces that comprise the opus 118 set. It also expresses quite a complicating technique, so pay extra attention with this one. November is considered the most challenging out of the lot because it has such a rapidly moving melodic flow. This is the eleventh of twelve short character pieces called The Seasons by Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky: November from The Seasons Op 37a Translating to ‘I want you’ in English, the melodies within Je te veux do carry a bit of a romantic feel to them. Play this piece in the right way and you’ll find yourself transported back to a Parisian bar in the early 1900s with a whiskey in your hand. Famous for its hand crossing melody, Un sospiro is the last of the Three Concert Etudes S 144. Those free-flowing arpeggios are enough to convince you to work on mastering this challenging piece.
What a glorious opening passage this piece offers us. Try and connect with the music as much as you can, and play it with the emotion Rachmaninov intended it to be played with. This piece is the first of the five Morceaux de fantaisie. The word Elégie translates into Elegy in English, meaning, ‘a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead’. Whilst this piece was never intended for our ears, but we are eternally grateful that we have access to it! Additionally, it was published against Chopin’s wishes: he had instructed that none of his unpublished works be released. There is a theory that it bared too much resemblance to another piece -Impromptu (Op 89) by Ignaz Moscheles. Remarkably, this piece of music was not published until after Chopin’s death.
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