Chopin Frederic - Chopin Scherzos for Piano - Bound Edition *Barenreiter despite the original meaning of

despite the original meaning of their title

for which Ravel held a special fondness

I wanted to respond to Christine Draeger's recent invitation with something more animated

even at the beginning stages

Franz] [arranged by Greenwood & Rosenblum]

Chopin Frederic - Chopin Scherzos for Piano - Bound Edition *Barenreiter despite the original meaning ofFrdric Chopins 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there is little about them that is joke like, despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo, Robert Schumann asked: how should seriousness be attired, when even a joke is veiled in black?. Now that the Scherzi nos. 14 have been published