I can’t taste Chopin at all
I may be the first mf in Earth’s history who wants to explore Chopin because he was a friend of Liszt (my favorite composer) and not the other way around lol. But somehow, I just cannot understand chopin.
It may be cause I dove too deep into late romantic and just off the heels of Liszt’s programmatic masterpieces (Dante Sonata, Vallee d’obermann etc.), but to me Chopin’s music just sounds like notes consecutively glued together, pretty notes for sure, very pretty, but they don’t form any larger structures (again, could be too spoiled by Liszt and Ravel’s thematic transformation techniques)
So, do you have any recommendation aside from the super famous ones? (Such as the impromptu and raindrop etude etc.) cause I’ll have already heard those.
So far I like his Ballade No. 1 & 3, they’re cool. Etude no. 11 in E flat major is a ton of fun, etude no. 12 in C minor is cool too.
Like, a lot of his stuff is nice, but that’s all it is. “Nice”.
So…can y’all recommend me something of his that you think I may like? Something maybe late-romantic esque? (Though my boy didn’t live to see that period rip)
My top 3 are
Liszt (Late liszt to be specific but flashy liszt can be fun too)
Ravel (everything he has ever touched, not including his gf)
Schubert (The fucking lieders man, the sonatas, I could go on and on)